The Politics of Humanity
Moorehead.^33 But perhaps most important is the outstanding contribution of David Rieff, whose A Bed for the Night captures many ...
& International Affairs.^37 Other important voices in this expanding discussion include Hugo Slim and Larry Minear, who have ...
guide humanitarianism, which sometimes sit in tension with the dilemmas professional humanitarians encounter on the ground; (2) ...
1. Humanitarian Principles Attempts to define humanitarianism tend to contain two elements: they indicate the kind of action at ...
mutuality (close to the current understanding of impartiality).^45 These were clearly working principles, reflecting the struggl ...
discernable within the literature of humanitarianism in crisis could plausibly be linked to the persistent influence of the last ...
which ignites the powder, the line of force for all its action. If the Red Cross were to have only one principle, it would be th ...
being taken for granted.”^59 We tend to assume our own humanity, both as a quality and as a disposition, and are thus easily sed ...
It is not clear that a hierarchy of suffering is the best way to honour our sense of humanity. Furthermore, as we will see in Ch ...
A quarter of a century later, it was on the question of maintaining strict neutrality and belligerent consent that a group of Fr ...
Independence The Red Cross is independent. The National Societies, while auxiliaries in the humanitarian services of their Gover ...
Voluntary service The Red Cross is a voluntary relief organization not prompted in any manner by desire for gain.^75 The princip ...
in particular, debates on humanitarian intervention, but have also been latent in discussions about the necessity of independenc ...
proclaiming the same principles, were to advertise that they were carrying out the same tasks independently!^83 Though unity, in ...
concept. It raises the question of how those issues are negotiated and therefore, the issue of politics. 2. Humanitarianism and ...
In recent years, many professional humanitarians have been more willing to acknowledge the political dimension of what they do.^ ...
intervention”.^93 This categorisation is not uncontroversial. For example, he includes MSF as an example of solidarism, but MSF ...
Anderson is the best example, to “do no harm”, represents a discussion of the political consequences of humanitarian action, inc ...
effectively adopted a preventive mode. It is hard to identify any humanitarian actor that does not in some way incorporate preve ...
of it are practices of rescue, as will be set out in Chapter 4. But what rescue means is as ambiguous as the question of what is ...
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