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Friday, October 21, 2011

why i hate the word 'humanitarianism'!

"One example of how some local Lebanese communities resisted and refused to inscribe by this traumatized subjectivity can be seen in the failure of humanitarian organizations in providing proper psychological interventions for Lebanese Shi‘a, the Lebanese community most affected by the 2006 war. In a public speech delivered during ‘Ashura’ in December 2009, Hizballah’s Secretary General Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah discussed the role of “global organizations studying the psychological effect of the war in South Lebanon” and their failures in detecting signs of trauma among Lebanese Shi‘a. For Nasrallah “this absence of trauma is a special and unique phenomenon in history.”iii His speech can be seen to express a form of counter-humanitarian discourse and challenged universally legitimate forms of suffering that dismiss the political, historical, and cultural contexts of violence and loss"