Rubberband Humanitarianism
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 1, S. 191-210
ISSN: 1747-7093
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In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 1, S. 191-210
ISSN: 1747-7093
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 1, S. 191-210
ISSN: 0892-6794
Extent to which U.S. private and government aid for disaster victims is guided by political motivations; role of mainstream U.S. religions. Efforts of the Reagan administration since 1985 to describe nonmilitary aid to the Nicaraguan contras as "humanitarian."
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 84, Heft 334, S. 3-14
ISSN: 1468-2621
In: International relations: the journal of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 380
ISSN: 0047-1178
In: International relations: the journal of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 380-396
ISSN: 1741-2862
In: Social history, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 331-350
ISSN: 1470-1200
In: Alternatives: global, local, political, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 277-290
ISSN: 0304-3754
THE CONTEMPORARY REALITY IS FULL OF PARADOXES - OF OVERPRODUCTION AND SCARCITY, OF INFORMATION EXPLOSION AND INCREASING IGNORANCE, OF POLIFERATION OF COMMODITIES AND SHRINKAGE IN NATURE'S DIVERSITY, OF AFFLUENCE AND POVERTY, OF LIBERALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION, OF STATES THAT ARE AT ONCE TOO STRONG AND TOO VULNERABLE. ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE AND CULTURAL DESTRUCTION ARE CENTRAL TO CONTEMPORARY CHANGE. IN CASES OF EXTREME TENSION, THESE PARADOXICAL SITUATIONS THREATEN THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF PEOPLE'S LIVES AS WELL AS THE PLANET ITSELF. ECOCIDE AND ETHNOCIDE ARE NO LONGER IMAGINARY SCENARIOS CREATED BY DOOMSDAY PROPHETS. THEY ARE HAPPENING; THEY ARE REAL. TOGETHER WITH MILITARIZATION, THEY CONSTITUTE THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE AND THREAT FACED BY THE WORLD TODAY.
In: Canadian journal of political and social theory: Revue canadienne de théorie politique et sociale, Band 10, Heft 1-2, S. 109
ISSN: 0380-9420
In: Journal of peace research, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 219
ISSN: 0022-3433
In: Journal of peace research, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 263
ISSN: 0022-3433
In: Journal of peace research, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 237
ISSN: 0022-3433
In: International & comparative law quarterly: ICLQ, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 267
ISSN: 0020-5893
In: Journal of peace research, Band 24, S. 237-249
ISSN: 0022-3433
A discussion of international humanitarian law, defined as the principles & rules that regulate hostilities in order to attenuate their hardships. The law combines two ideas of a different nature, one legal & the other moral, which may explain the apparent paradoxes it raises. The evolution of humanitarian thought is traced through the ages, as are the attitudes of states; history & politics have determined the uneasy but progressive codification of humanitarian norms. So-called "military necessity" is considered, which may be at the origin of limitations, if not gaps, in the development & implementation of humanitarian law. However, because it is also indebted to superior principles derived from established custom, principles of humanity, & the dictates of public conscience, humanitarian law has acquired specificities that make it universal & obligatory. If humanitarian law is concluded by states, its real aim is the protection of the individual. 20 References. Modified HA
In: Journal of peace research, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 275
ISSN: 0022-3433
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 47, Heft 1, S. 140
ISSN: 0022-3816