Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214701 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Global Cooperation Research Papers No. 8
Publisher: 
University of Duisburg-Essen, Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21), Duisburg
Abstract: 
Humanitarians are no longer simply seen as selfless angels. Their motivations and mastery, their principles and products are questioned from within and from without. Understanding the ongoing transformations in contemporary humanitarianism requires examining the nature and evolution of humanitarian culture away from an agreed culture of cooperation to a contested one of competition. The latter reflects militarization, politicization, and marketization. What is required is a learning culture for practitioners and a consequentialist ethics more oriented to responsible reflection than rapid reaction.
Subjects: 
Humanitarianism
humanitarian business
ethics
marketization
militarization
international relations
globalization
development cooperation
global cooperation
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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