What role does humanitarian action play in population displacements?
This work focuses on how humanitarian organisations operate, including their members, self-portrayals, messages, practices and cultures. Aid to refugee, displaced, deported, exiled and interned populations plays a central role in humanitarian action both now and in the past. What types of aid are provided to internees and displaced persons? What kinds of obstacles and dilemmas do these organisations face? What sorts of practical, political and ethical questions are raised by the participation of aid groups in population displacement and internment policies?
Central African Republic: Questions around a forced exodus
For a few months now, the world's response to the organized expulsion of the Muslim community out of the Central African Republic (CAR) can best be described as strikingly mute.
Le génocide au Rwanda raconté par un humanitaire français
Cet entretien a été réalisé par Hélène Sallon et publié dans le Journal Le Monde le 7 avril 2014.
Somalia and the International Status Quo in Refugee Management: When is the right time to say the big F word?
Humanitarian assistance has become entangled with migration and security agendas. Indeed, most humanitarian assistance in Somalia and in refugee camps is subordinated and in support of these two agendas.