How much is known about the daily experiences of humanitarian workers in extreme situations such as major conflict or disaster? In their new book, “Humanitarian Aid, Genocide and Mass Killings: Médecins sans frontières, the Rwandan experience, 1982-97”, Marc Le Pape and Jean-Hervé Bradol set out to answer some of these questions. The book is also informed by Bradol’s experience of working for Médecins Sans Frontières in Rwanda during the genocide. 

Former president of the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières and current director of studies at the MSF Foundation’s Centre de réflexion sur l’action et les savoirs humanitaires (CRASH), Dr Rony Brauman, explains the difficulties involved in obtaining reliable figures on the human costs of natural disasters.

Interviewé par Le Monde Afrique, Rony Brauman préconise de tenir compte des disparités sur le terrain pour mieux aider les populations.

Kevin MacMahon's review of "Saving Lives and Staying Alive: Humanitarian Security in the Age of Risk Management" (Michaël Neuman and Fabrice Weissman, London: C. Hurst & Co, 2016) is published in the Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict (2016, pages 69-70).

This op-ed article was published on 27 October 2017 in the French weekly Marianne. He writes it in the backdrop of a controversy around a "Que Sais-Je" book on Rwanda published by the Belgian researcher, Filip Reyntjens and the accusations against him that he rewrites history and seeks to minor the genocide of the Tutsis in 1994.

How can anyone write about Rwanda without being called a denialist? Marc Le Pape tries to craft an answer in this article, published on the website The Conversation on 19 October 2017.  

Voici une recension du livre de Justine Brabant "Qu'on nous laisse combattre et la guerre finira. Avec les combattants du Kivu" (Editions La Découverte, 2016), rédigée par Marc Le Pape et publiée dans le numéro 228 de la revue Tiers Monde. Nous avions reçu Justine Brabant en juin 2016 à l'occasion d'une conférence du Crash dédiée à son livre. 

Marc Le Pape, sociologist and member of MSF-Crash Scientific Committee, is interviewed by Boris Martin, Editor-in-chief of Alternatives Humanitaires, about his and Jean-Hervé Bradol's latest book "Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings: MSF, the Rwandan experience (1982-1977)".

Following the dismantlement of the Basroch camp in Grande-Synthe and the resettlement of refugees in the new La Linière camp, in the spring 2016, Michaël Neuman and Franck Esnée wanted to focus their analysis and story on the “camp” – as an object –, its nature and management. This article was originally published in Alternatives Humanitaires #5, in July 2017. 

Entretien avec Rony Brauman, réalisé par Claire Guyot pour le journal La Croix, sur les régions du Sahel affectées par l'insécurité alimentaire et sur l'organisation de l'aide humanitaire dans ces pays, dont celle de MSF. 

In this post, published in Border Criminologies, Michaël Neuman and Corinne Torre speak out against the inhuman conditions imposed on migrants and refugees in Calais by the French state. This piece was originally published in French in Le Monde.

Christophe Chatelôt, journaliste au journal Le Monde, revient sur deux livres traitant du génocide des Tutsi, l'un de Jean-Hervé Bradol et Marc Le Pape du Crash, intitulé "Génocide et crimes de masse, l'expérience rwandaise de MSF", l'autre de Filip Reyntjens "Le génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda".