Humanitarian Ethics

Hugo Slim (PhD) is a renowned researcher in the field of humanitarian studies with a focus on international business ethics, civilian protection, and humanitarian ethics. His book Killing Civilians: Method, Madness, and Morality in War is available at the University of Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict.

Humanitarians must be unbiased, autonomous, professionally skilled, and solely committed to preventing and alleviating human suffering. Living up to these ideals can be challenging when others do not share them, and convincing political, military, and non-state actors to permit an agency's assistance on the ground calls for astute ethical abilities.

Arriving at a conflict or natural disaster is merely the first step because relief workers are frequently and quickly faced with moral and practical decisions. For instance, when does practical cooperation turn into complicity in human rights abuses when one works closely with a belligerent or an immoral regime? If refugee and displaced person camps are in fact sites of imprisonment, should one work there? Do humanitarian organizations that are constantly prepared to "mop-up" the effects of scorched earth warfare unintentionally promote ethnic cleansing? Humanitarian Ethics was created to assist humanitarians in analyzing and handling these and other moral conundrums.

Author: Hugo Slim

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