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- 1. the promotion of human welfare: "a contribution made in the spirit of humanitarianism"
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This overview briefly discusses four crucial domains of contemporary humanitarianism, namely humanitarian diplomacy, education in emergencies, the concept of civil society in humanitarianism, and humanitarian borders. Since at least the mid-nineteenth century, humanitarian relief has spread worldwide to become a global salvific narrative. Today ...
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Both the philosophical bases of humanitarianism and its first applications can be traced to the late seventeenth century. Latitudinarians rejected Calvinist notions of innate depravity and Hobbesian ones of self-interest, instead arguing for an inherent impulse toward benevolence. The third earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713) developed the notion of "n...
Such principles easily entered the wider culture through magazines such as the Spectator, in England, and the New-England Courant, where Benjamin Franklin (1702–1790), using the pen name Silence Dogood, observed in 1722 that "from a natural Compassion to my Fellow-Creatures, I have sometimes been betray'd into Tears at the Sight of an Object of Cha...
Historians debate too the efficacy of humanitarian reform. Some argue that it merely hid forms of cruelty that once had been public, replacing public executions, for example, with private hangings and lengthy incarcerations. Others point to unintended and ironic consequences. An intense preoccupation with pain could produce its own kind of pornogra...
Fiering, Norman S. "Irresistible Compassion: An Aspect of Eighteenth-Century Sympathy and Humanitarianism." Journal of the History of Ideas37 (1976): 195–218. Halttunen, Karen. "Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain in Anglo-American Culture." Journal of American History100 (1995): 303–334. Haskell, Thomas L. "Capitalism and the Origins of th...
Sep 27, 2018 · The history of humanitarianism grew up alongside new work on internationalism and international institutions such as the League of Nations and the United Nations and is intertwined with the history of human rights, another field that has expanded rapidly in recent years.
- Matthew Hilton, Emily Baughan, Eleanor Davey, Bronwen Everill, Kevin O’Sullivan, Tehila Sasson
- 2018
Humanitarianism has an ideological aspect, representing the industrialized world's aspirations to relieve suffering in societies faced by acute crisis, but may also be conceived as a self-evidently practical response to needs.
- Jonathan Benthall
- 2017
Sep 10, 2018 · The classic paradigm of humanitarianism is based on the basic principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence, meant to ensure that humanitarian aid is purely needs-based: decisions to help must not be driven by political motives or by discrimination of any kind.
- Dorothea Hilhorst
- hilhorst@iss.nl
- 2018
The Introduction outlines how this book takes a fresh look at humanitarian action over two centuries through the concept of moral economy. The book employs a theoretical outlook that reflects the emerging academic interest in histories of morality, the cross-disciplinary rise of a ‘moral economy’ discourse beyond the confines of E. P ...
The Oxford Dictionary definition of a humanitarian is ‘one who advocates or practices humane [itself defined as benevolent, compassionate] action, philanthropist; one who seeks to promote human welfare’. 14 As Didier Fassin points out, the ‘moral landscape’ of humanitarianism – consisting today of aid organizations, relief operations ...
