Hugo Slim

TL;DR: Killing Civilians as discussed by the authors is the first major treatment of the hard questions of civilian identity and protection in war for many years, and it provides a unique and accessible text on the subject for professional and public readerships alike.

TL;DR: The paper seeks to recognise the difficult moral choices relief agencies are facing today and gives some practical guidelines to relief agency staff when confronting the ethics of a given situation, and introduces some basic moral principles surrounding the key ethical notions of action consequences and moral responsibility.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the moral difficulties for international humanitarian workers operating as third parties in war zones and highlight the responsibility of any third-party relief organization to be transparent in its position and to preserve rather than distort traditional humanitarian principles and language.

TL;DR: This article made a preliminary assessment of the international response to Darfur to see how it compares to the denial and delay of ten years ago, concluding that the international community has certainly been too slow and divided in its response in the face of competing political priorities.