Humanitarian


Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
Falling Night
Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone
Band-Aid for a Broken Leg
The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofDead Aid by Dambisa MoyoThe Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
International development
224 books — 213 voters

An Imperfect Offering by James OrbinskiThe Photographer by Emmanuel GuibertHope in Hell by Dan BortolottiBand-Aid for a Broken Leg by Damien BrownWar Doctor by David Nott
Médecins Sans Frontières
26 books — 13 voters
The Science of Evil by Simon Baron-CohenAgainst Empathy by Paul Bloom
Empathy and It's Shortcomings
2 books — 1 voter


C.S. Lewis
My contention is that good men (not bad men) consistently acting upon that position would act as cruelly and unjustly as the greatest tyrants. They might in some respects act even worse. Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our ...more
C.S. Lewis, The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment

Abhijit Naskar
Empathy is the highest truth, everything else is mere accessory.
Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

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