humanitarianism
In the News: Rethinking Food Aid Programs
posted by Jolene McCall
The detrimental effects of food aid programs are not a recent realization. In fact, a variety of reports highlight the necessity to rethink […]
In the News: Humanitarian-“ism”
posted by Bangirana Albert Billy
“The concept which is supposed to transcend ideology obscures the role of the west in creating disasters in the first place.” – Jeremy Seabrook
Jeremy Seabrook, in […]
In the News: Poverty is a Moral Problem
The interview with William Easterly in Christianity Today raises important issues around morality, aid, and the rights of people who are supposed to benefit from aid. While Easterly has […]
In the News: Reflections on Violence, Law, and Humanitarianism
Talal Asad, writing in Critical Inquiry, raises complicated questions about humanity, morality, Enlightenment, law and politics. He asks, in part, “What gives the modern project called ‘humanitarianism’ its moral […]