The Politics of Humanity
on concepts and codes such as “warrior’s honour” to embed humanitarian limitations on the brutality of war, they have come to th ...
merely formalises “the charity of nations”, to borrow a phrase from Smillie and Minear.^33 The other option is for host governme ...
instrumental rationality that will prove to be a project that is largely unachievable”.^36 The dilemmas that faced aid workers i ...
responsibility (though in practice the tendency is to simply refer to the common vernacular of human rights). Though the intenti ...
Indeed, if the issue is really about empowering those at the mercy of contingency, there are other options potentially available ...
to remain politically impartial.”^42 For Fiona Fox, “new humanitarianism demands that all aid be judged on how it contributes to ...
On this account, then, human rights perform a similar function to the one so far described for humanitarianism as a whole in thi ...
generalised human rights provisions. By 1948 two key documents emerged, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Conven ...
international human rights regime, with all the questions that raises about what responsibilities are being acquired. With the c ...
The second, related point is to recall the historical context. It is important to remember that accounts of universal human righ ...
but as emergencies become prolonged, it is a pretence that becomes harder to uphold.^58 As such, human rights might appear to re ...
different kinds persists. A high profile example was given by the New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof in 2004, who purcha ...
a common humanity. I will return in more detail to this topic in the concluding chapter. While there is very significant concept ...
suffering of others, their embodiment in laws and practices owes much to struggles driven by self-help. Moreover, there is no gu ...
possible or desirable to create a system in which, in response to a human rights violation, another bearer of human rights respo ...
(both in Chapter 4). Instead, I will consider the practice in the way it illustrates the twin impossibility for professional hum ...
humanitarian grounds. For me, that will always be a contradiction in terms. It is a perversion of humanitarianism, which is neut ...
stake, when humanitarianism is precisely the context in which we are supposed to articulate our response to inhumanity. Christop ...
on the protection of human rights led to some of the most unaccountable humanitarian action yet. Though professional humanitaria ...
voluntary service. Indeed, there have been calls for a voluntary UN army, but at the present this seems fanciful to say the leas ...
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