Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice Choi Fitzpatrick
Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice Choi Fitzpatrick The ethics of changemaking and peacebuilding may appear straightforward: advance dignity, promote well-being,…
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Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice Choi Fitzpatrick
The ethics of changemaking and peacebuilding may appear straightforward: advance dignity, promote well-being, minimize suffering. Actually acting ethically when it really matters is rarely straightforward. Sounds simple, right?
And, how ought we act once we have decided whose good counts? If someone engaged in change-oriented work sets out to do good, how should we prioritize and evaluate whose good counts? Practitioners frequently confront dilemmas where dire situations may demand some form of response, but each of the options may have undesirable consequences of one form or another.
Dilemmas are not merely ordinary problems, they are wicked problems: that is to say, they are defined by circumstances that only allow for suboptimal outcomes and are based on profound and sometimes troubling trade-offs.Wicked Problems argues that the field of peacebuilding and conflict
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