Beyond the Humanitarian/Political Divide: Witnessing and the Making of Humanitarian Ethics

Givoni, Michal

doi:10.1080/14754835.2011.546235

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“…The adjective disregards the practical and organizational extensions of relief into development assistance and ignores the fact that giving immediate help often implies ''witnessing'' suffering and providing succor for it in the long run. 9 While some scholars have argued that the distinction between aid and development stems from different models of humanitarianism, emergency and development aid seem to have coexisted for a long time. 10 It was only in the 1980s that the distinction became sharper in practice as well as in academic analysis and went beyond the temporal distinction between short-and longterm.…”

Section: Terms and Concepts Of Humanitarian Aidmentioning

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Conjunctures in the History of International Humanitarian Aid during the Twentieth Century

Paulmann¹

2013

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Conjunctures in the History of International Humanitarian Aid during the Twentieth Century

Paulmann¹

2013

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“…; (iii) Complicity: is it justifiable to be complicit to harm for the sake of PoC? (this typology is inspired by the introduction to humanitarian ethics in Slim, 2015; see also Löfquist, 2017; Givoni, 2011a, 2011b). As demonstrated below, answers to these questions typically fall between the broad and narrow concepts of PoC.…”

Section: Poc and The Ethics Of World Politicsmentioning

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The Protection of Civilians and ethics of humanitarian governance: beyond intervention and resilience

Lidén

2019

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The principle of the Protection of Civilians (PoC) in armed conflict has ethical repercussions in various actions undertaken by states and international organisations, from humanitarian relief, development aid, and peacekeeping, to warfare and military intervention. While the ethics of humanitarian intervention are instructive in this regard, most PoC practices should be conceived rather as modes of humanitarian governance across borders—from interventionist to resilience‐oriented kinds. The consequences of this for the ethics of PoC are explored in this paper, highlighting questions of power, culture, and complicity. By relating these questions to the ethical strands of solidarist and pluralist internationalism, it positions the ethics of PoC within the broader field of the ethics of world politics. Examples are drawn from recent scholarly debate on PoC efforts in war‐torn countries such as South Sudan. This analysis of the ethics of PoC reconfigures central positions in the debate on humanitarian intervention to an era of global humanitarian governance.

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“…In such instances, these evocative objects take on a distinctly political cast, helping to lift some of the repression that surrounds these scenes, putting emphasis on context and power rather than more conventionally measurable forms of evidence. The objects do not speak for themselves, but they can help ground and substantiate fragile testimonies that have exceeded other epistemic frames (Givoni 2011; Keenan and Weizman 2012).…”

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Sexual Violence in the Field of Vision

Sliwinski

2018

Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice

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Meditating on a single photograph from a recent Human Rights Watch report concerning police violence in Northern British Columbia, Canada, this paper pursues two lines of questions about the visual politics of human rights. One concerns how our ways of seeing-our modes of attending to the vulnerability and integrity of particular persons-can itself be understood as a form of human rights practice. The other aims to widen space in contemporary political theory for thinking about how sexual violence functions as a central technology of sovereignty and how we might make this phenomenon more perceptible. The paper explores the ways photographs can become evocative objects-tools that can help spectators digest the ways sovereign forms of power are brokered across and through women's bodies.

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Beyond the Humanitarian/Political Divide: Witnessing and the Making of Humanitarian Ethics

Cited by 34 publications

References 33 publications

Conjunctures in the History of International Humanitarian Aid during the Twentieth Century

Conjunctures in the History of International Humanitarian Aid during the Twentieth Century

The Protection of Civilians and ethics of humanitarian governance: beyond intervention and resilience

Sexual Violence in the Field of Vision

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