The Ethical Witness: The International Committee of the Red Cross
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Date
2008-02
Authors
Mathur, Ritu
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YCISS
Abstract
How are we to understand the ethics of humanitarian organizations as they act as witnesses to situations of armed conflict? How do the ethics of a humanitarian organization influence its silence or speech with regard to particular situations of armed conflict? How is this silence or speech interpreted as a moral failure or a moral success of a humanitarian organization? These questions are central to my concern with the ethics and politics of humanitarianism. These questions have relevance to undertakings of humanitarian organizations in a historical sense during the period of the Second World War to the present day conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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ethics, Red Cross, humanitarian organizations, holocaust