The Humanitarian Failure
This paper suggests that humanitarian action sustains a social lie and, therefore, failure is intrinsic to it. It raises the question of the consequences of failure, a failure that can either participate in reinforcing stereotypes or transforming the representation of the other. Drawing from a reflection around micro-experiences, it formulates the hypothesis that failure permits to complexify the representation of the dominant other and gives him/her back a humanness rocked by the myth of al-might.