Understanding humanitarian action - past, present and future | ICRC

The latest film from the Arts and Humanities Research Council looks at how arts and humanities academics are working with the International Committee of the #RedCross (ICRC) in #Geneva to help refresh understanding on how principled humanitarian action is delivered, both in the past and today.
The ICRC is an impartial, neutral and independent organisation whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance and protection.
The partnership led by Professor Andrew Thompson from the University of Exeter, comes at a critical time for #humanitarianism - with today’s political situation in the Middle East and the resulting refugee crisis never far from our headlines, news feeds, or minds.
In this film, we hear from Professor Thompson who recently worked with the #ICRC to host an important international conference bringing leading arts and humanities academics together with experts in humanitarian aid, to provide a critical historical perspective on the ICRC’s ‘Fundamental Principles’.
The Fundamental Principles have long been the primary expression of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement’s values and practices. The Principles: Humanity, Impartiality, Neutrality, Independence, Voluntary Service, Unity, and Universality, guide the work and decisions of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement for all Red Cross Red Crescent workers in all situations and at all times.
This year (2015) is a major anniversary for the Red Cross / Red Crescent movement - the 50th anniversary of the Fundamental Principles, which were adopted in Vienna in 1965. The anniversary year is being used not only to celebrate this remarkable milestone, but also reassert the contemporary relevance and importance of the Fundamental Principles.
In this film, we hear from leading academics and humanitarian experts including ICRC President, Peter Maurer who speaks candidly on the unique challenges facing the Fundamental Principles and the delivery of humanitarian assistance in today’s geopolitical climate.
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OR OBJCTIVE TO SERVE THE HUMANITY

[@earlaweese]

*I don’t serve abuse nor do I serve to abusers.*

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[@earlaweese]

*I can’t even believe this exists considering how abusive human beings have been to me and continue to be to me. The abuse is endless!! It never stops and I’ve never had a humanitarian step in and ensure that I’m never abused again!!*

[@algerianprophet9654]

Then why were the Humanitarians not there to help also the Axis during ww2? There is something fishy about this Humanitarianism!

[@earlaweese]

*Humanitarians are never there when someone asks for help... they just show up wherever they want to show up according to whatever agenda they have. There are no REAL humanitarians... that’ll probably be something that’ll exist in the 24th or 25th century. They continue to associate money with humanity more than they associate humanity with humanity. They love to be lazy at the expense of other people. The ones who are perceived as the ultimate humanitarians are the ones that pay other people to do their work for them while they sit around on Snapchat showing off some structure that she/he “built” while using words like “we”.*

[@earlaweese]

*Humanitarians in this day and age think that an individual asking for help = selfishness. Humanitarians in the 24th/25th century aren’t going to call it selfishness because people will be smarter then. Today, people are still abusive and in turn, humanitarians are abusive with them because they’re still people too.*

[@earlaweese]

*People that smirk aren’t humanitarians because they’re smug and smugness is cruelty. It’s being highly pleased with yourself as if you’re the creator of the universe and the human race itself and everything that’s happening is because you willed it. Humanitarians don’t exist. It’ll be a concept that’ll come about in the 24th/25th centuries. Today, they just do it for selfish purposes... not for other people. It’s all an ILLUSION. You’ll know that humanitarians exist when your life is pleasurable beyond your imagination and you’re experiencing a love you never thought could imagine, but am I experiencing that? No. Have I asked for help from humanitarians? Yes. Have they helped me? Absolutely not. Have they neglected, ignored, or abused me? Yes. So, no... humanitarianism doesn’t exist in the 21st century, but it’ll definitely exist in the 24th/25th century when human beings evolve.*

[@earlaweese]

*The fact that this has 12,000 views shows that people aren’t collectively humanitarian- they’re collectively selfish.*