The project focuses on possible applications of the principle of humanity in contemporary conflicts. Difference can be presented not merely as antagonism and polemos, which lead to the annihilation of the other pole, but also as a challenge of interaction and coexistence without the elimination of constitutive distinctions. We examine the formation of paradigms that conceive of difference primarily as antagonism and support a boundless negation of the “bearers” of otherness. Parallel to the criticism of these paradigms we develop a reflection of their corrective in the form of the principle of humanity as a framework for the tolerance of difference. We examine what humanity means in our current conditions. The application of the principle of humanity is a key step in preventing the absolutization of antagonism and in deescalating conflicts. We explore different ways of creating space for the use of this principle as well as the limits of its meaningful application.