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Home > Resources > Ethics & International Affairs Journal > Volume 13 (1999) > Special Section: The Humanitarian Identity Crisis |
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Humanitarian Responsibility and Committed Action: Response to "Principles, Politics, and Humanitarian Action" [Abstract]
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December 4, 1999
Far from rejecting the classicist approach, as Thomas Weiss claims, Médecins
Sans Frontières (MSF) follows the fundamental principle of providing aid in
proportion to need and without discrimination. Actions that on Weiss's political
continuum would be termed solidarist are less an expression of political
preference than a determination to claim and operate within humanitarian space
as well as to maintain accountability to international civil society through
testimony (témoignage) regarding mass violations of human rights.
Although providing aid in conflict is implicitly political, involving
humanitarian actors and aid in conflict resolution initiatives, as Weiss
advocates, risks diluting the primary responsibility of humanitarian aid to
alleviate suffering. It also further shifts the responsibility for conflict
resolution and the respect of international legal conventions from accountable
political institutions to the private sphere. Is this where we want to lead
humanitarianism?
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