The Re-humanization of Humanitarianism
Humanitarianism is a loaded word. If you were unfortunate to be an academic is this arena, your mind would swirl with Geert-Hofstede models and initiatives for community development and charrettes for nationals live-birth rates and solutions for preventable illnesses. If your studies of humanitarianism have not been that academic, you would be overwhelmed at the above and may not take it any further!
‘Humanitarianism’ has been dehumanized as a word. It is now antiseptic, a dry-erased word in the lecture halls, filling hopeful students at once with dreams of helping and weighty studies.
Humanitarianism has fallen away from being a calling of compassion and has become a career, an industry, a degree to obtain.
Humanitarianism needs the academic side. It needs those charrettes and initiatives. It needs to be written in lecture halls.
However, Humanitarianism needs to be re-humanized.
Let’s try.
Humanitarianism is this; to repair the effects of brokenness in the earth.
Simple, I know, but heroic.
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Grant R. Nieddu
