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

by Malcolm MacLachlan, Stuart C. Carr, Eilish McAuliffe

"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, injustice and identity this timely work 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. This insightful new critique provides for the reader an innovative and constructive framework for producing more empowering and more effective aid.

172 pages, Hardcover

First published June 10, 2010