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

Malcolm MacLachlan is with the Centre for Global Health and the School of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. He is a graduate of the universities of Cardiff, Dundee, London, Strathclyde and Dublin and is currently a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Rehabilitation Studies, Stellenbosch University. His research interests are in organisational aspects of international aid, enablement of people with disabilities, and the interplay between culture and health. He has worked with a broad range of NGOs and multi-lateral agencies and with Irish Aid. He is currently Research Advisor to Southern African Federation of the Disabled. Eilish Mc Auliffe is Director of the Centre for Global Health and Senior Lecturer in Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin. Her research is on strengthening health systems in middle and low-income countries, with a particular focus on the human resource crisis and psychosocial aspects of HIV/AIDS, and she has contributed to books and published in peer reviewed journals on these issues. Previously, Eilish worked at the Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi. She 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 both high and low-income countries.Stuart C. Carr is Professor of Psychology, Industrial and Organisational Psychology Programme, Massey University. Professor Carr coordinates the Poverty Research Group, an international network focused on interdisciplinary approaches to reducing poverty. Stuart's speciality is applying Industrial and Organisational Psychology to poverty reduction and his books are among the first to examine poverty reduction from this perspective, he co-edits the Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology.