POLS 3320 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Evangelicalism, Humanitarian Intervention, Human Security
25 Feb 2017
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Michael barnett (2013) empire of humanity: a history of humanitarianism 1st edition (ithaca, Humanitarianism entered the world"s vocabulary around the turn of the nineteenth century. Shortly humanitarianism became associated with compassion across boundaries. Largely due to the creation of the icrc in 1863 as the world"s first official international humanitarian organization. Humanitarianism is also transcendental the belief that there is something larger than us. Can be religious but not always in secular agencies, the transcendental is that humanitarianism is a way of both expressing and bringing into existence an international community. Humanitarianism exists to attend to the needs of the giver and not only to those of the receiver humanitarians are not saints. Since world war i the organization of humanitarian action has largely followed the tremendous internationalization, institutionalization, and rationalization of global affairs. This is different than previous acts of compassion because it is organized and part of governance and is directed at other lands.
