It is the waning of the liberal-humanitarian thought in practice that needs to be bemoaned.
NAIROBI--When I was asked recently to reflect on this year's Day of the African Child as a policy advisor and a humanitarian advocate, my thoughts turned to the millions of young people across the continent who are working hard alongside their supporters to ensure they have better opportunities and a full future.
Michael von Bertele, Save the Children's humanitarian director, said: "Our thoughts are with the individual, their family and colleagues at this difficult time.
Mr. Pipkin, who founded the Nobelity Project, a humanitarian organization composed of Nobel laureates and other thought leaders who raise awareness of global issues, will present Mr. Kristofferson, 76, the Willie Nelson Feed the Peace Award on Sunday.
Crucially, this dead end leads us to question the conceptual sustainability of the current international liberal humanitarian order and encourages us to put more thought in critical research outside its confines.
The idea was called humanitarian intervention.
All thoughts and conversations focused on the impending humanitarian aid.
It is from this standpoint that we find him here dismissing Arnold Toynbee as "a noxious humanitarian" and sneering at John Middleton Murry as "this apostle of suburban free thought".
But perhaps because of the huge security and humanitarian crises crippling many countries there, most governments have spared little thought to dealing with a problem that seems less urgent, even if its fallout could be just as devastating.
The supercommentators as a rule find Ibn Ezra to be expounding a univeralist, or humanitarian, philosophy that shares much with, and draws much from, non-Jewish thought.
