Mathur, Ritu2008-07-082008-07-082008-02http://hdl.handle.net/10315/1304http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/publications/documents/WP47-Mathur.pdfHow 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.enethicsRed Crosshumanitarian organizationsholocaustWorking Paper