Dignity and Empowerment

Dr. Yves Menanga Kizito

doi:10.5771/9783896658791

Summary

This book provides an insightful view in the philosophical foundation of one the most crucial global practices, namely humanitarian action, in view of current developments in international ethics. Indeed, in a globalized world, the suffering of many people has become more tangible than ever, and therefore also a philosophical and global political puzzle. Since the first phases of the globalization, which include the founding of the Red Cross, humanitarian action in the form of various assistance and support services, emerged as a cross-border concern. After the Second World War, humanitarian actors have significantly expanded their activities and also increased in size. Along with the emergence of this humanitarian practice, an evolving humanitarian theory has emerged which intended to provide the foundations for this commitment and to determine its principles. From a philosophical point of view, it is crucial to investigate which forms of ethical foundations and normative goals underlie this development and how, in view of various philosophical traditions, these developments are to be interpreted.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-3-89665-878-4
ISBN-Online: 978-3-89665-879-1
Publisher: Academia, Baden-Baden
Series: Academia Philosophical Studies
Volume: 66
Language: English
Pages: 311
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 18
1. 1.1. Problem Diagnosis No access
2. 1.2. Relevance of the Theme and Aim of Research No access
3. 1. 1.3.1. Research on the theme of “Humanitarian Assistance” No access
  2. 1.3.2. Relevance of Cosmopolitanism as Reference Theory No access
4. 1.4. Justification of the Choice of Authors No access
5. 1.5. Methodology No access
6. 1.6. Outline of Chapters No access
1. 1. 2.0. Introduction No access
  2. 2.1. Conceptual Clarifications: Humanitarian Assistance, Development Assistance and Humanitarian Intervention No access
  3. 1. 1. 2.2.1.1. Humanity No access
      2. 2.2.1.2. Impartiality No access
      3. 2.2.1.3. Neutrality No access
      4. 2.2.1.4. Independence No access
  4. 1. 2.3.1. The Humanitarian System No access
    2. 1. 2.3.2.1. Affected Communities and Populations No access
      2. 2.3.2.2. Governments of Affected Countries No access
      3. 2.3.2.3. Non-State Armed Groups No access
      4. 2.3.2.4. National and Local Non-Governmental Organisations No access
    3. 1. 2.3.3.1. Donors: Governments and Private No access
      2. 2.3.3.2. Private Security No access
      3. 2.3.3.3. The United Nations Agencies and International NGO No access
  5. 2.4. The Needs-based Approach of Traditional humanitarian Assistance No access
  6. 2.5. Humanitarian Financing No access
  7. 1. 2.6.1. Dilemma related to Principles: Between Apolitical and Political Assistance No access
    2. 2.6.2. Between Atomisation and Coordination: Dilemma Related to Humanitarian Actors No access
    3. 2.6.3. Worthy and unworthy Victims? Dilemma Concerning Financing No access
    4. 2.6.4. Violence in the Name of Humanity? Dilemma Concerning Protection of Human rights No access
  8. 2.7. Conclusion No access
2. 1. 3.0. Introduction No access
  2. 1. 3.1.1. Discredited Principles No access
    2. 3.1.2. Geopolitical Changes No access
    3. 3.1.3. The Changing Nature of Conflict No access
    4. 3.1.4. A New Conception of Security No access
  3. 1. 3.2.1. Human rights Approach No access
    2. 3.2.2. Linking Relief and Development No access
    3. 3.2.3. Searching for Coherence between Humanitarian and Political Responses to Emergencies No access
  4. 3.3. The Limits of the “new Humanitarianism” No access
  5. 3.4. Conclusion No access
1. 1. 4.0. Introduction No access
  2. 1. 4.1.1. Global Justice: a New Paradigm at the Era of Globalisation No access
    2. 4.1.2. Global Legal and Political Institutions No access
    3. 4.1.3. John Rawls and the Debate on Global Justice No access
  3. 4.2. Defining and Grounding Cosmopolitanism No access
  4. 1. 4.3.1. Political Cosmopolitanism No access
    2. 4.3.2. Cultural Cosmopolitanism No access
    3. 4.3.3. Similarities, Differences and Ambiguities No access
  5. 1. 4.4.1. Origins and Development No access
    2. 4.4.2. Kant: Cosmopolitanism as the Ultimate Goal of Historical Evolution No access
  6. 4.5. Conclusion No access
2. 1. 5.0. Introduction No access
  2. 1. 5.1.1. The Author and Her Work No access
    2. 5.1.2. The Capabilities Approach No access
    3. 5.1.3. Beyond Social Contract Theories of Global Justice No access
    4. 1. 5.1.4.1. The List of Central Capabilities No access
      2. 5.1.4.2. First Level: The Shape of the Human Form of Life No access
      3. 5.1.4.3. Second Level: Elementary human Capabilities No access
      4. 5.1.4.4. The Role of the State No access
    5. 5.1.5. The Capabilities Approach as a Justice Conception No access
    6. 5.1.6. A Cosmopolitan Approach No access
    7. 5.1.7. Criticisms to Nussbaum’s Theory of Justice No access
  3. 1. 5.2.1. The Author and His Work No access
    2. 5.2.2. Justice and the basic Right to Justification No access
    3. 5.2.3. Justice through Equal Participation No access
    4. 5.2.4. Cosmopolitan Justice No access
    5. 5.2.5. Criticisms to Rainer Forst’s Theory of Justice No access
  4. 1. 5.3.1. Linking Dignity and Justification/Empowerment No access
    2. 5.3.2. Dignifying Justice and Humanitarian Standards No access
    3. 5.3.3. Justifying Justice and Humanitarian Empowerment No access
  5. 5.4. Conclusion No access
1. 1. 6.0. Introduction No access
  2. 6.1. Dignifying Justice and the Overcoming of Philanthropic Humanitarianism No access
  3. 6.2. Dignifying Justice and the Revision of Humanitarian Principles No access
  4. 1. 6.3.1. Humanitarian Politics as a Politics of Pity No access
    2. 6.2.2. Turning Recipients of Assistance into Actors No access
    3. 6.3.3. Justifying/Empowering Justice and Power relations No access
  5. 6.4. Conclusion No access
2. 1. 7.0. Introduction No access
  2. 1. 1. 7.1.1.1. The Essential Principles: Objectives No access
      2. 7.1.1.2. The Derivative Principles: Relationships No access
      3. 7.1.1.3. The Organic Principles: Ways of Working No access
    2. 1. 7.1.2.1. Dignity No access
      2. 7.1.2.2. Pluralism No access
      3. 7.1.2.3. Justification/Empowerment and Participation No access
    3. 7.1.3. The Relationship between Traditional and Cosmopolitan Principles No access
  3. 1. 7.2.1. Why Designing a Practical Framework? No access
    2. 1. 7.2.2.1. External Challenges: Climate Change, Technological Transformations, Conflict Design No access
      2. 7.2.2.2. Internal Challenges No access
    3. 7.2.3. Five Principles for Dignifying and Justifying Humanitarian Institutions No access
  4. 7.3. Conclusion No access
3. Chapter 8 : Conclusion No access
Biography of the Author No access Pages 311 - 311