The Politics of Humanity
cognitive dissonance led to a new attempt at resolution: the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). R2P, the product of a high-level c ...
alter the fundamental problem that faced those professional humanitarians who denounced the failure of the West to engage with t ...
with human rights, we will see that injustice creates a space that demands a broader account of humanitarianism in response to t ...
similar manner to those explored in Chapter 2 in the context of “crises of humanity”. But putting this aside, the key point here ...
neglects the historical process through which the abstract, impartial human at the centre of the theory is formed. If we now hav ...
superiority – and greater justice – of a world without slavery. In asserting such a conclusion they were not also making the fur ...
effective enslavement. The annual death toll from poverty-related causes is around 18 million, or one-third of all human deaths, ...
to such a situation, it is clearly a disaster from a more broadly humanitarian point of view.”^99 Nagel brings the question back ...
aggrieved party. As such it is victim-centred. But it assumes no harmony of grievances among them. This is a particularly import ...
the voice of the victim of injustice, rather than assume that our model of justice will fit. In acting in defence of common huma ...
6. Humanitarian Identity and Internationalist Solidarity: Humanity” in a World of States 6. Humanitarian Identity and Internatio ...
many professional humanitarians of the state, this chapter will seek to defend a vision of a progressive humanitarian politics i ...
I Humanitarian Identity and Independence: Humanitarian Space and the State............ The chapters so far have argued that howe ...
guaranteed and maintained by politics. This begs the question of what Orbinski is really declaring independence from. We affirm ...
intended effect, of guaranteeing the humanitarian space it seeks. Arguably the door has long been opened. The horse has bolted. ...
and use of relief goods, and free to have a dialogue with the people”.^10 OCHA, more narrowly, views it as a synonym of “humanit ...
potential violation of sovereign rights to being a safeguard for fundamental human rights.^14 A decade and a half on, this seems ...
Perhaps a deferral to and functional independence from the states-system is a small price to pay? Clearly it is rarely as simple ...
might be plausible once it is in place, the shaping of it necessarily acknowledges that states can be crucial actors within huma ...
More problematically, in Rwanda, Terry tells us that The genocide against the Tutsi and those who were seen as supporting them h ...
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