New Humanitarianism
Does It Provide a Moral Banner for the 21st Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3897697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fiona Fox (0000-0001-7313-8105, Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 275-289 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disasters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-7717.00178 |
| PMID | 11780854 |
| OpenAlex | W2018543266 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 70 |
| References cited | 2 |
There is a 'new humanitarianism' for the new millennium. It is 'principled', 'human-rights based' and politically sensitive. Above all it is new. It marks a break from the past and a rejection of the traditional principles that guided humanitarianism through the last century. New humanitarians reject the political naivety of the past, assess the long-term political impact of relief and are prepared to see humanitarian aid used as a tool to achieve human rights and political goals.New Humanitarianism is compelling, in tune with our times and offers a new moral banner for humanitarians to cling to as we enter the new millennium. Or does it? After outlining the key elements of new humanitarianism, including the human rights approach and developmental relief, the paper spells out some of the dangers. The author claims that new humanitarianism results in an overt politicisation of aid in which agencies themselves use relief as a tool to achieve wider political goals. The paper shows how this approach has spawned a new conditionality which allows for aid to be withheld and has produced a moral hierarchy of victims in which some are more deserving than others. The paper concludes with a plea for a revival of the principle of universalism as the first step to a new set of principles
Banner · Civilization · Conditionality · Environmental ethics · Hierarchy · Human rights · Law and economics · Plea · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Universalism · Disaster Response and Management · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development
Classical humanitarianism in the wake of complex crises
Le dilemme inévitable de l’action humanitaire
International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect
An Introduction to International Relations
Global Environmental Politics
An Introduction to International Relations
Relief, Development and the Eritrean War of Independence
Implications for Humanitarian‐Development‐Peace Nexus ( HDPN ) implementation in forced migration context
A pragmatic approach to operationalize impartiality
From New Humanitarianism to Total Defence
Refugees as Entrepreneurs? A Challenge to HDP Programmes
Visual Securitization
The dilemma of neutrality
Humanitarian aid and host state capacity
Erasing Our Humanity
The Changing Face of Accountability in Humanitarianism
Hybrid Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina
El humanitarismo va a la guerra. Tensiones entre violencias, derechos humanos y humanismo militar en la posguerra fría
Beyond 'New Humanitarianism
Cruel to care? Investigating the governance of compassion in the humanitarian imaginary
Humanitarianism and the fourth industrial revolution
Against Humanitarian Impunity
When Aidland Becomes Absurdland
Spatial-Moral Ordering in the War on Terror
Civil War in El Salvador and the origins of rights-based humanitarianism
Playing with principles in an era of securitized aid
Do No Harm
Rhetoric without Responsibility
HIV/Aids and its monsters. Negotiating criminalisation along the monster–human continuum
Israeli cross-border assistance to Syrians
Towards a Bourdieusian frame of moral panic analysis
Humanitarian NGOs in Peace Processes
Reconsidering the humanitarian space
Creating humanitarian space
This is how we survived’
Bridging the gap
Against Abandonment Activist-Humanitarian Responses to LGBT Refugees in Athens and Beirut
What Exactly are We a Part of Now?’ Norwegian NGOs’ Engagement with State Governmentality
Cultural determinism, Western hegemony & the efficacy of defective states
Humanitarian neophilia
The pre-war reconstruction of post-war Iraq
A Cultura Humanitária Contestada em Zonas de Guerra
Shooting Saviors? Military Relations With Humanitarians
Imaging Humanitarianism
Humanitarianism as liberal diagnostic
Foreign Passports Only”
Global Humanitarianism Between Ideals and Realities
Five shades of grey
Romancing principles and human rights
Humanitarian protection activities and the safety of strangers in the DRC , Syria and South Sudan
Humanitarianism Transformed
The Politics of Impartial Activism
Evolution Without Progress? Humanitarianism in a World of Hurt
From armed conflict to urban violence
No emancipatory alternative, no critical security studies
World society and field theory
The politics of emergency and the demise of the developing state
Putting affected people at the centre of humanitarian action
Disorder within the humanitarian sector
Performing deservingness. Humanitarian health care provision for migrants in Germany
Not a free version of a broken system
Volunteering for refugees and the repositioning of state sovereignty and civil society
Geographies of humanitarian violence
Dividing disasters in Aceh, Indonesia
Humanitarian virtue
Questionable Accountability
Women, gender, and conflict
The pitfalls of the humanitarian principles "impartiality" and "humanity" in humanitarian aid in Borno, Nigeria
The Temporality of Disaster
The Contours of New Humanitarianism
| Unique citing works | 70 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,8 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 68 |