KUNO's Podcast

Humanitarian Ethics

KUNO's Podcast

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An appealing, thoughtful and compact introduction into humanitarian ethics by Hugo Slim based on a Master Class organized by KUNO (the Platform for Humanitarian Knowledge Exchange in the Netherlands), and the Netherlands Red Cross (The Hague, January 2019). Dr. Hugo Slim is author of the book Humanitarian Ethics. A guide to morality of aid in war and disaster (2015). Slim has a combined career in the academic world and in humanitarian practice, and did work - amongst others - for Save the Ch...

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