The Aid Triangle focuses on the human dynamics of international aid and illustrates how the aid system incorporates power relationships, and therefore relationships of dominance.
Using the concept of a triangle of dominance, justice and identity, this timely work explains how the experience of injustice is both a challenge and a stimulus to personal, community and national identity, and how such identities underlie the human potential that international aid should seek to enrich. This insightful new critique provides for the reader an innovative and constructive framework for producing more empowering and more effective aid.
Author Biography:
Malcolm MacLachlan is with the Centre for Global Health and the School of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and is currently a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Rehabilitation Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa and at the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard University, USA. Mac has worked as a clinician, consultant and academic; and has lived in Ireland, UK, Malawi and South Africa. His interests are in promoting inclusive global health - especially regarding disability and ethnicity - and humanitarian work psychology. He has worked with a broad range of government and civil society organisations and multilateral agencies (including WHO, Unicef, UNHCR, OECD and UNESCO). Prof MacLachlan is the Director of the International Doctoral School for Global Health (Indigo). Stuart C. Carr is Professor of Psychology, Industrial and Organizational (I/O) Psychology Programme, Massey University, New Zealand. He coordinates the Poverty Research Group, an international network focused on interdisciplinary approaches to reducing poverty. He also co-convenes the Global Task Force on Humanitarian Work Psychology. He was the lead investigator on Project ADDUP, a multi-country DFID/ESRC-funded study of pay and remuneration diversity in developing economies. Prof Carr has worked and lived in UK, Malawi, Remote Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, and New Zealand/Aotearoa. His books are among the first to examine poverty reduction from an I/O, work psychology perspective. Stuart has liaised extensively with for- and not-for-profit organizations. He co-edits the Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, which has a focus on development. Eilish Mc Auliffe is Director of the Centre for Global Health at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She has worked as a clinician, consultant and academic and lived in Ireland, UK, South African and Malawi, where she worked for Unicef and Irish Aid. Her research is on strengthening health systems in middle and low-income countries, with a particular focus on the human resource crisis and maternal healthcare. In Ireland she has also researched strategy and organizational change, and user involvement in health planning,. Eilish has provided a wide range of consultancy support to governments, NGOs and professional healthcare bodies and has contributed to numerous strategy and policy documents in healthcare in both high and low-income countries.
