KUNO's Podcast

About KUNO's Podcast

KUNO is the platform for humanitarian knowledge exchange in the Netherlands. Our podcasts bring the most interesting seminars, debates and trainings of KUNO, and they cover various humanitarian topics. Stay tuned!

Publisher

KUNO

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Jun 2018

Latest episode

2 Dec 2024

Latest episodes

1 of 24 episodes have a transcript.

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   2 Dec 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Hugo Slim on the origins of contemporary humanitarianism

   Hugo Slim’s delves into the origins of contemporary humanitarianism, recounting its journey through the 18th and 19th centuries, when a mutual sense of humanity and a shared moral community were embraced. He highlights the milestones of this historical road towards humanitarianism: the recognition of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war, the attention that arose to non-combatant civilians and refugees, followed by the invention of human rights, IHL, and the humanitarian principles. He...

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   26 Oct 2021

   Decolonisation of aid: Dialogue #5 – The role of the donor (October 2021)

   In the webinars 'The decolonization of aid' KUNO, Partos, and The Institute of Social Studies (ISS) take one step back and approach the discussion on the decolonization of aid in a series of talks. Step by step, we highlight an aspect of this debate. We ask two experts to engage in a conversation with one another to explore the controversies and perhaps find some common grounds. This fifth dialogue focusses on the role of the donor with regards to the decolonisation of aid with Smruti Patel (...

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   14 Oct 2021

   Smruti Patel and Dirk-Jan Koch on the Decolonisation of aid – The role of the donor (October 2021)

   In the webinars 'The decolonization of aid' KUNO, Partos, and The Institute of Social Studies (ISS) take one step back and approach the discussion on the decolonization of aid in a series of talks. Step by step, we highlight an aspect of this debate. We ask two experts to engage in a conversation with one another to explore the controversies and perhaps find some common grounds. This podcast is the recording of the opening statements of Smruti Patel (Founder & Director Global Mento...

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Hugo Slim on the origins of contemporary humanitarianism

Published 2 Dec 2024 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It's been a huge challenge to achieve this sense of a common humanity of equal value. And in that process, we have invented humanitarianism, which is pretty interesting, quite a good thing to have done down one road. We discovered this idea of the wounded soldier and prisoners of war. and we recognized them, and that was Henri Dunant's legacy. We then, in World War I, we then saw the civilian population for the first time, and we began to use that word later, non-combatant civilians. And in my view, the greatest ever humanitarian of the 20th century, Herbert Hoover, who later became American president, a great Quaker, invented modern food relief, modern ideas of humanitarian diplomacy, and the civilians, We then had children. […]

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