In developing her argument, Oliver draws (sometimes explicitly, more often implicitly) from well-worn stances in the critical scholarship on humanitarianism. As this literature maintains, refugees transgress the global political order, which organizes people and territory into discrete nation-states, even as it consolidates this order through labelling some people "refugees" and managing those so labelled through humanitarian government.

Chouliaraki (2015) also argues for the importance of context as an enabling factor to imagine a new communicative structure of humanitarianism. Human vulnerability should be addressed through the politics of injustice rather than pity.

Sure family is important but don't lecture Meghan about "humanitarianism" when you yourself have been inhumane.

More important in the contemporary security framework, humanitarianism is on the rise as a critical mission area for armed forces, America's allies, and partners.

Chapter 1 provides an overview of humanitarianism and how the concept has evolved over time.

He said: "Well, I'm delighted to be back here in Kuwait and again to have the honor and the privilege to meet His Highness the Amir and we had an extremely productive discussion about the enormity of the commitment of both His Highness the Amir and the Kuwaiti people to the humanitarian needs of people around the world caught up in crisis." "The example that Kuwait has shown over so many years is one we all wish to emulate so I'm delighted we had such an interesting discussion and such commitment and as I have said I think that His Highness the Amir and Kuwait they have humanitarianism in their DNA," he added.

(He's having a midlife crisis and smoking too much weed while she's high on humanitarianism, depending on which "close pal" you believe.) This bombshell news has made front pages around the globe and Twitter has gone stratospheric.

As the Hungarian-born moral and political philosopher Kolnai (1900-73) noted in his remarkably penetrating and prescient 1944 article "The Humanitarian versus the Religious Attitude," humanitarianism is "the standard type of non-religious philosophy" that has arisen "on a soil tilled by Christianity." (1) Christianity is "universalistic, personalistic, and moralistic" and thus readily gives rise to a humanitarian distortion of itself.

The Battle for Algeria: Sovereignty, Health Care, and Humanitarianism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.

It teaches us the principles of true humanitarianism, to reach out and help our fellow man.

Synopsis: Medical humanitarianism (medical and other health-related initiatives undertaken in conditions born of conflict, neglect, or disaster) has a prominent and growing presence in international development, global health, and human security interventions.

It is hard to look at their actions and still believe the decision to calibrate their tactics and brand Syria "a hostile state" is humanitarianism. Simply put, they are feeding chaos and behaving like arsonists.

The people traffickers are, as usual, ahead of the game, and are taking full advantage of the West's humanitarianism by abandoning their vessels to be rescued by the relatively few ships in the area.