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Home > Resources > Ethics & International Affairs Journal > Volume 13 (1999) > Special Section: The Humanitarian Identity Crisis |
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Moral Imperatives and Political Realities: Response to "Principles, Politics, and Humanitarian Action" [Abstract]
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December 4, 1999
Thomas Weiss's essay is a fine contribution to the current conversation
within the humanitarian international, but there is a worrying absence of a
broader, extra-humanitarian context in the discussion. There is no question that
"Human Rightsism" has become the dominant political ideology of the
international new class, and the common currency of UN treaties, academic
conferences, and charitable foundation mission statements.
What remains open to question is whether, in the field, where humanitarians
and human rights activists do their work, this revolution is real, or whether it
is instead a fiction well-intentioned Westerners have chosen to believe in
because otherwise the realities of the contemporary world would seem too bleak.
It is an ironic reality that humanitarian workers and human rights activists
have become the last interventionists. But should the humanitarian movement be
embarking down the path of demanding more political action and, when necessary
in order to allow humanitarians to do their work, military intervention? Should,
as relief agencies insist, humanitarian considerations always take pride of
place? There are unexamined assumptions here that need to be thought through
more rigorously than those engaged in the debate have seemed willing to do.
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