DVM 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Humanitarian Intervention, Humanitarian Principles, Lifesaving
14 Mar 2018
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Understand ways that humanitarianism, in both theory and practice, borrows from development. Appreciate ethical dilemmas inherent in humanitarian action. Understand how humanitarianism relates to wider questions about political economy, globalization, and international relations. Humanitarian assistance and humanitarian intervention are not new concepts. Humanitarian assistance as development on steroids : short-term, rapidly provided assistance to relieve immediate su ering. Humanitarian assistance as being apolitical : tries to relieve human su ering but does not try to address the underlying structural causes, focus on emergency relief and treatment. Evolution of humanitarian thought based on speci c historical, ideological, and political interactions. Empire of humanity: a history of humanitarianism (michael barnett: three major periods in the history of the eld, the age of imperial humanitarianism, the age of neo-humanitarianism, the age of liberal humanitarianism. Humanitarian assistance is an assistance primarily aimed at providing emergency life-saving support to people a ected by crisis .
