The Aid Triangle Recognising the Human Dynamics of Dominance, Justice and Identity

This book focuses on the human dynamics of the myriad relationships underlying international aid; from impoverished farmers to aid workers; donor diplomats to multilateral beaurocrats; celebrities to activists, and to the unconcerned and uninvolved. This book illustrates how the aid system incorporates power relationships, and therefore relationships of dominance. It explores how such dominance can be both a cause and a consequence of injustice. It explains how the experience of injustice is both a challenge to, and a stimulus to, personal, community and national identity, and how such identities underlie the human potential that international aid should seek to enrich.

Malcolm MacLachlan is with the Centre for Global Health and the School of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin.  Eilish McAuliffe is Director of the Centre for Global Health and Senior Lecturer in Health Policy and Management at Trinity College Dublin.  Stuart C. Carr is Professor of Psychology in the Industrial and Organisational Psychology Program at Massey University.

Introduction * Aid? * Dominance? * Justice? * Identity? * Learning?