1、3550 英文单词， 2 万英文字符 ， 中文 6000 字 文献出处： Mitoma G, Bystrom K. Humanitarianism and responsibilityJ. Journal of Human Rights, 2013, 12(1): 1-20. Humanitarianism and Responsibility GLENN MITOMA AND KERRY BYSTROM This article serves as an introduction to the articles in this special issue of the Journal of
2、Human Rights on humanitarianism and responsibility. We thread the work of our contributors, along with other key scholars, together into a broader discussion about the possibilities and limitations of humanitarian responsibility. We first elaborate several constitutive dimensions of responsibility a
3、s it has been understood in humanitarian discourse, with particular attention to the way in which it has been deployed to both limit and extend the humanitarian mandate. We then consider how the discourse of humanitarian responsibility constitutes a departure from, and a possible alternative to, the
4、 discourse of human rights as the reigning lingua franca in which ethical arguments are advanced at the global level. Ultimately, we contend that while renewed emphasis on responsibility is no panacea for the difficult political and ethical questions that bedevil international humanitarianism and sh
5、ould not displace the focus on human rights, the process of critically engaging with this term may present a valuable opportunity to rethink the pursuit of global justice as a situated and contingent engagement between the self and those distant and proximate others who are exposed to catastrophes,
6、natural and man-made. On January 12, 2010, a massive earthquake struck the Caribbean island nation of Haiti with catastrophic results. The scope of the devastation was shocking; the quake left over 300,000 people dead and some 1,000,000 homeless. It also demolished the countrys infrastructuresymbolized in the photograph of the collapsed Presidential Palace featured on the front page of The New York Times the day after the quake. Yet, even before the magnitude of the destruction became widel
