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Dunant's pyramid: thoughts on the “humanitarian space”*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2007

Daniel Thürer
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Abstract

This article uses the metaphor of a pyramid bounding the humanitarian space as a means of portraying what it is that constitutes humanitarian law and humanitarian action. Whereas humanity as the tip of the pyramid forms the aim and international humanitarian law the base, the sides are the principles of impartiality, neutrality and independence, which enclose the humanitarian space and make the humanitarian endeavour possible.

Type
Humanitarian Actors
Information
International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 89 , Issue 865: Humanitarian Actors , March 2007 , pp. 47 - 61
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2007

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References

* This article is a slightly adapted version of an article in German by the same author “Dunants Pyramide, Gedanken zu einem “humanitarian Raum””, in Stephan Breitenmoser et al. (eds.), Menschenrechte, Demokratie und Rechtsstaat, Liber amicorum Luzius Wildhaber, DIKE/Nomos, Zürich/St. Gallen/Baden-Baden, 2007.