Dr Bruna Seu from Birkbeck's Department of Psychosocial Studies and Glen Tarman, Head of Global Advocacy at CARE International discuss some of the issues raised by Dr Seu's new book, written with Dr Shani Orgad (LSE) Caring in Crisis? Humanitarianism, the Public and NGOs (2017, Palgrave Macmillan).
The issues raised by the book include the limitations of the "hit and run" approach to fundraising, where donors are bombarded with traumatic images designed to elicit financial donations without opportunities for further engagement with the issues at play; the challenge of not only increasing the overall value of donations from within the existing part of the British public which donates, but also the propensity of the wider public to become involved at all; and how to best respond to the desire for connectedness with the recipients of aid, which many participants in the research for the book expressed.
• Caring in Crisis? Humanitarianism, the Public and NGOs -http://bit.ly/2rUWi1D
• Dr Bruna Seu - http://bit.ly/2sEkn9X
• Department of Psychosocial Studies - http://bit.ly/2rYoXxV
• Courses in psychosocial studies - http://bit.ly/2rUxpTs
• Courses in international development - http://bit.ly/2stQo6b
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