The Politics of Humanity
value, we have to turn back to the ways in which such value is generated. The goal of the practice, even if described only as th ...
people (or at least people who saw themselves and their actions as ordinary) who engaged in exceptional activity according to a ...
intention, for that will yield the most impoverished account that explains neither inputs nor outcomes in the politics of humani ...
occasions”, to borrow Michael Walzer’s phrase.^55 Walzer uses the example, which we will return to at greater length in Chapter ...
There is also the question of unintended side-effects. The provision of food aid is notoriously difficult precisely because of t ...
are used in the service of rescue, whether these have the potential to cause harm, and whether that provides a definitive criter ...
life, not to eliminate it”.^64 We might also recall that the Talmudic saying that prefaced this chapter is preceded by the idea ...
it not possible that violence may always be the worst way to honour our sense of humanity, but on very rare occasions the only w ...
possibility of “collateral damage”. As Michael Doyle puts it: “the necessarily ‘dirty hands’ of violent means often become ‘dang ...
Perhaps more than anything else, the problem of humanitarian violence reminds us of the possibility of tragedy, in the genuine s ...
coherently understandable within the “politics of humanity” being sketched in this work. Rescue comes into focus as one of our m ...
Global Justice 5. The Pursuit of a Humanitarianism beyond Contingency: Accountability, Human Rights and Accountability, Human Ri ...
contribution to humanitarianism is not to be found in the particular acts of rescue that may or may not have taken place that we ...
the previous chapter how humanitarian action could cause harm and be deeply unaccountable at the level of specific acts of rescu ...
stake is humanitarian ethics, humanitarian practice, and humanitarian identity as they evolve within a changing political dynami ...
Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which is still, more than half a century later, officially dealing with an “emergency”.^9 Fou ...
institutionalised humanitarian action. In many ways this is the most promising approach. Accountability has long been the pursui ...
a set of minimum standards and a “Humanitarian Charter”;^16 a self-regulatory body, the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership; ...
participates in that debate, evolve historically and can themselves be the object of a political struggle.^20 Dorothea Hilhorst ...
that determines how accountability is actualised.^24 In other words, professional humanitarians become accountable to donors for ...
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