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One Year After Haiyan: Time to Recalibrate Humanitarianism?

... experience, since most coordination work relies on the IASC and UN OCHA. Russell Watkins/Department for International Development Aerial view of Tacloban after Typhoon Haiyan It is not only the UN that reformed the vision and mechanism of modern humanitarianism: another contemporary trend involves the growing engagement of non-state actors via non-state networks or systems embracing different types of participant. One such network, which may be seen as a successor of the UN Humanitarian Reform,...

04.12.2014

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The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions

... an arena for promoting one’s image. It is the suffering of some people and the attempts by others to help them – idealistically and in the spirit of the Enlightenment’s humanism, but exactly this, and not politics, constitute “humanitarianism”. In the end, who needs politicians if a person has nothing to eat? 1 . English-language literature uses the more general and pithy term humanitarianism to define it. 2 . Humanitarian Intervention: A History / ed. by Brendan Simms,...

19.08.2014

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