Humanitarianism and Universalism

roach would not lead to the formation of a global state, but instead it would establish global rules that would be monitored by nations and organizations. A humanitarian approach would be the "centerpiece" of such a set of rules due to the "legitimacy that derives from the assumption of human equality" (Kaldor 396). The human equality she speaks of would be achieved through Nussbaum's list of basic human capabilities. "The basic intuition from which the capability approach starts, in the political arena, is that human capabilities exert a moral claim that they should be developed" (Nussbaum 465). This shows that a global humanitarian approach can be reached if nations accept a central set of rules, such as the basic human capabilities list, which they would not have to follow it strictly. Though nations would have to assimilate the basic human capabilities list to their current rules, they would not have to completely remove them. If nations' rules were amended to accommodate parts of Nussbaum's list, then a global humanitarian approach could be reached. However, if every nation followed Nussbaum's list strictly, the world would be a uniform "entity" full
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