Doctors Without Borders

Bibliography Jabbo Gehring English A2 Block E 05.11.2008

1. medical news today, "Doctors Without Borders Protests Comments By Bernard Kouchner In Jerusalem." medicalnewstoday.com. 13 Oct 2008. 5 Nov 2008 http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/125287.php

This Article is a good source of information on the organization, although the information originally is from the Doctors without borders homepage. Up to date to October 2008, it talks about a statement of a former member which created confusion and harm to MSF and politicians. Also it lists facts about MSF’s work in the Gaza Strip. The general outlook of this article clearly aggrandizes MSF’s humanitarian intention. This is because the website and its authors have a positive opinion about the organization. Nevertheless the information about MSF’s principles and its allocation of health care were of great use.

2. ICRC, "The Code of Conduct." www.ifrc.org. 2006. IFRC. 4 Nov 2008 http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/conduct/code.asp

This web document provides information about ten general rules for humanitarian organizations: the principles of conduct for NGOs in Disaster Response Programmes. However it does not inform the reader directly about Doctors without Borders but on the principles on which their actions are based on. This page will still be of good use for my presentation because the information about the bases of an organization like MSF.

3. Doctors without borders, "About Us." doctorswithoutborders.org. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). 5 Nov 2008 http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/aboutus/

This text is directly from the English MSF homepage. It provides a good overview of the organizations history, their quality and structure, and who they are. Given examples emphasize their humanitarian campaigns against negligence of human crises in third world countries. The authors of this page distinctively want to present MSF’s good-natured intentions.

4. Simpson, Holly. "Doctors Without Borders Enables Us to See Invisibles." www.huffingtonpost.com. 06 May 2007. 04 Nov 2008 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/holly-simpson/doctors-without-borders-e_b_47801.html.

This blog article is a review of the movie ‘Invisibles’ which was produced by Doctors without Borders. It talks about the directors and their way of giving a voice to the MSF patients in hope to reach a broader audience. The Author of this document again focuses on MSF’s good deeds. However this text is more about how MSF spreads it’s idea and not just about what the idea is.

5. Sternthal, Tamar . "Vogue Magazine and Doctors Without Borders Side Against Israel." Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America 19 Dec 2001 15 Nov 2008 http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=120&x_article=344

In this article Tamar Sternthal passes harsh criticism on Zia Jaffrey’s article about MSF, the West bank and Gaza. He comments about Jaffrey’s disregard with a view to Israelis suffering. MSF focused on NYC after September 11^th and declined its aid in Israel. The head of MSF operations in Israel and the Palestinian territories said that local victims have access to excellent doctors and do not need the service of MSF. Sternthal points out that this absurd justification is contradicted by the fact that MSF assisted the wealthiest country in the world where powerful aid organizations are already present. This article is an excellent source of information thanks to the author’s clear bias against MSF.

6. Katz, Yaakov, Siegel, Judie . "Shin Bet foils plot to kill Olmert." The JerusalemPost 17 May 2007 15 Nov 2008 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708623115&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

This article is about MSF member Mazab Bashir who tried to kill Jerusalem’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in 2007. Bashir underwent combat training to assassinate Olmert and therewith revenge the deaths of Palestinian civilians. On April 19, Bashir was arrested. MSF said they were sad for Bashir and added that the organization can’t be held liable for every aspect of its staff's lives. Although MSF tries to sanitize it’s record the information in this article is of great use for my presentation.

7. Tanjug, Yu. "Solidaire -- NATO used military operations data and assessments in Kosovo obtained by Medecins sans frontieres (MSF) ." www.tanjug.co.yu. 22 Dec 1999. 4 Nov 2008 http://www.geocities.com/cpa_blacktown_02/19991223msfrtanj.htm

This is an old article, but one of the few that may state that Doctors without Borders does not have a clean record. There are statements that members of MSF passed military data to the NATO and thereby violated the principles of conduct for NGOs in Disaster Response Programmes. The information, however is mainly based on Belgian weekly Solidaire.

8. BBC News, "World: Europe MSF wins Nobel Peace Prize." news.bbc.co.uk. 15 Oct 1999. 6 Nov 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/475605.stm

Although this article is from 1999 it is a great source of information. It talks about MSF winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. It provides several quotes from members and also MSF-data from that time, which can be used for comparison.

9. Morley, David. Healing Our World. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2006.

This book is a good source of information, although the author is a former MSF member. It is divided into two parts. Part one covers general information about the organization. Part two consists of journal entries giving personal, detailed, and dated accounts that summarize the group's work. The author’s intention is to inspire hope and the feeling of being able to help.

10. Bortolotti, Dan. Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders. Firefly Books Ltd, 2006.

This Book is an excellent source of information about MSF, although the author is not a member of the organization. In between, journalist Bortolotti traces the history of Doctors Without Borders. Some stories are backed up with photos or color-inserts. The information provided is of great use because of the different view on MSF.

11. Event in Stockholm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EuB6tY8yUc no information about director yet

This youtube video is a great example showing MSFs successful efforts to attract donators. During one week over 1300 child coffins were spread around Stockholm. People donated money and the coffins were removed from the streets, so Stockholm could see that they were saving lives. The video and the information provided are of great use for the presentation because of the straightforwardness towards the audience.

12. Documentary: Invisibles - Javier Bardem

The Economist - The net generation

"The kids are alright"
From The Economist print edition
Nov 13th 2008
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The Internet contaminates today's youth. In this article, the writer of "Growing Up Digital" Don Tapscott disagrees to that statement about the young people of today and backs his points up with a worldwide study. In his opinion the problem is that the baby-boomers do not recognize the change among the youth. For that reason he compares the generations over and over again. He says that the new, first global generation ever is better and more active than the older, TV-watching couch-potato-generation. In his view, gamers, bloggers and instant-messagers are better at multi-tasking. Tapscott is equalizing the ban on facebook at work with the ban of rolodexes. His worries, on the other hand, relate to today's education and youth's lack of regard for privacy. Tapscott finishes by saying that the new generation has improved it's family life through family conversations about the Internet and it's dangers.

One World

Our world is globalizing, or not? Economies are becoming more integrated but are they really as integrated as it’s said? There are debates whether globally integrating economies are good or bad? One positive aspect is a better division of labor and increased living standards. On the other hand some say it destroys jobs and pushes down wages in rich countries. This is not the first globalization, before WW 1 railways and steamships caused a large cross-border trade. But international trading didn’t boom again until after WW2. Governmental trade-controls were abolished to recover from WW2, it was the rebirth of the global capital market. There are to rebuilding forces: technology like communication development and liberalization which lowered barriers to foreign trade. The extend can be exaggerated. Product markets are still nowhere near as integrated across borders as they are within nations. Financial markets were more integrated at the beginning of this century and labor is not mobile enough to become more internationally integrated. But due to market-friendly reforms and steadily falling communication costs many countries are becoming more and more integrated. Globalization has its bad and good sides. It’s supposed to boost average incomes but those will be unevenly distributed. For some governments it will be harder for to keep their economy in a fair condition. Protectionist governments may even keep their economies from growing by setting up trade barriers and controls. But an economic backlash is less to expect because of today’s technology and the trade freedom.

NO LOGO Chapter 2

Brands are turning children into walking billboards. They noticed that if they get them now, they will have them for life. Everyone wears clothes with big labels on them, to show: “I am a cool kid because I wear this cool brand!” But corporations have evolved to the next level. Before you used to go to a concert because of the bands that you like. Today you go to concerts because it is sponsored by Red Bull, MTV or Sprite. The big brands now have their own shows, their own events and festivals. Why? Because on their own festivals they can make as much adverstisement as they want. Another thing that Naomi Klein writes about in this chapter is how brands unite with celebrities. People now associate Nike with Tiger Woods, Cristiano Ronaldo and Michael Jordan. They are living ads and bringing their sponsors loads of money by showing their fans what to fear. Companies invaded the TV as well. Dawson’s Creek was sponsored by J.Crew. Brands are everywhere, they have become our culture, our way of life.

Grunge

A wikiHow article about How to Be Grunge (for Guys and Girls).
Definition 1: Grunge: A subgenre of the alternative music scene, emerging from Seattle, featuring distorted guitars, whining vocals and flannel-shirt-wearing band members.
Definition 2: Grunge: dirt: the state of being covered with unclean things

You want to be considered as grunge? This is how you have to be! This Article is a tutorial for boys and girls on how to dress and act like if you want to be grunge. The first thing you have to do is listen to grunge-music. You should not wear fancy or expensive clothes. If you do so, you are considered as a poser. The text continues with several things you should or should not wear to be grunge. The girls section points out the dress-code for girls. The third section is an advice for both genders. There are some pretty strict rules like point 8: • “Draw on white t-shirts with black permanent marker.” What they are doing is pretty much stereotyping the grungers. The fourth section says: “• Don't care what other people think.” And also: “Most "grungers" were rebels. They disliked society and media and didn't trust large firms and corporations.” There are three self-contradictory in those two points.
1 If you don’t care what others think, (or what they tell you, they think) then you should not listen to what the Article is telling you.
2 If grungers disliked society and were rebels, how can you be a rebel in a scene that has become society itself.
3 If grungers disliked media, you should not like this article, because it is media

Source

The Economist - "World of Dealcraft"

“World of Dealcraft”

from The Econommist print edition

September 16th, 2008

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“The biggest-ever video-game deal shows how the industry is changing” This is the header of an article in The Economist from Dec 6th 2007. The text is about how big media corporations extend more and more into the video-game business by elaborating with/or buying big game-companies. Vivendi, for example, joined forces with Activision and forged the biggest-ever video-game deal. The Activision people got their long desired “World of Warcraft” and Vivendi got Activision’s talented management team to run it. The trend is clearly going to online gaming and the so-called “social gaming.” “World of Warcraft” is one of those games and has made huge profits. Also it is said that they are trying to build new audiences for the industries: combining music with online gaming. This opens many so-called “cross-marketing opportunities.” Viacom the MTV media giant acquired “Harmonix”, the creator of “Guitar Hero”, and later promoted a new game through their MTV channels.

It is always going to be a battle between the big media corporation. They are pushing each other to always look for new audiences, new technologies and expanding their media-empires. There is no end in sight. In fact, with every new innovation on the media market, the battle restarts again.