What is it about?

Humanitarian relief organizations today tend to downplay their national origins or belonging, and present themselves as stateless and cosmopolitan. This paper shows the great importance national belonging and patriotism had for the nineteenth-century emergence of the largest and oldest network of humanitarian relief societies, the Red Cross.

Featured Image

Why is it important?

Activists and supporters of international relief projects often describe nationalism as a source of violence. Understanding that nationalism has facilitated the rise of the most significant humanitarian movement in modern history, and that it continues to have a salient role in the humanitarian community today, is important for relief organizations as they work to solicit support for their programs.

Read the Original

This page is a summary of: For good and country: nationalism and the diffusion of humanitarianism in the late nineteenth century, The Sociological Review Monographs, March 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1002/2059-7932.12003.
You can read the full text:

Read

Resources

Contributors

The following have contributed to this page