Sentence examples for us humanitarianism from inspiring English sources
As the Kurdish population from Kobanë has been under the jurisdiction of a Kurdish cantonal region sympathizing with the PKK (a Kurdish military group long listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the EU and the US), humanitarianism toward and collaboration with Kurdish forces against IS would have meant making concessions to Turkey's decades-long foe – the Kurdish militants.
Or, as the Harvard law professor David Kennedy writes in "The Dark Sides of Virtue" (2004), "Humanitarianism tempts us to hubris, to an idolatry about our intentions and routines, to the conviction that we know more than we do about what justice can be".
One force behind this upheaval is a small Kenyan-born organization called Ushahidi, which has become a hero of the Haitian and Chilean earthquakes and which may have something larger to tell us about the future of humanitarianism, innovation and the nature of what we label as truth.
Mort's abiding humanitarianism was an inspiration to us all.
Secondly, and relatedly, it can be observed that a paternalistic humanitarianism may lead to a "schizophrenic" situation; it leads us, as humanitarians, to either act in bad faith (and deny the fact that we are being paternalistic in our work) or to become disenchanted with the sector and abandon the humanitarian project.
'Every day that goes by is costing us money, and we can't carry on this humanitarianism indefinitely.
The advertising for the British armed forces used to be a combination of adventure and humanitarianism.
After all, if humanitarian intervention must involve vital interests, then humanitarianism itself is irrelevant.
Humanitarianism also had a godmother, as Linda Polman reminds us.
Its conclusions, however, cannot but lead us to embark on a process of dispelling the myth of a humanitarianism based solely in the world of ethics.
In the broader context of humanitarianism, as critics like Linda Polman have pointed out, the empathetic reflex can lead us astray.
