Jody Williams and International Ethics

Jody Williams, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient for her work to stop the use of landmines recently spoke at DePauw to discuss her international humanitarian work. I was lucky enough to be able to attend her lecture as well as participate my Humanitarian Intervention class where she was present to tell us her story as well as some Q&A.
After hearing her speak I remain fascinated by her rise to activism. She describes the primary driving force in activism as “righteous indignation” or the discovery of a rightful emotional disgust, not quite broaching on the ventings of “anger”, that she felt at a young age towards the injustices that her deaf brother experienced at school as a child. She recalls this feeling of righteous indignation as her