Marc Le Pape has been a researcher at the CNRS and then at the EHESS. He is currently a member of the scientific committee of the CRASH. Formerly with the CNRS, Marc Le Pape is currently a researcher at the l'Ehess (Centre d'études africaines). He has carried out research in Algeria, Côte d'Ivoire and Central Africa. His recent studies have focused on the Great Lakes region in Africa. He has co-directed several publications: Côte d'Ivoire, l'année terrible 1999-2000 (2003), Crises extrêmes (2006) et dans le cadre de MSF : Une guerre contre les civils. Réflexions sur les pratiques humanitaires au Congo-Brazzaville, 1998-2000 (2001) and Génocide et crimes de masse. L'expérience rwandaise de MSF 1982-1997 (2016).
Marc Le Pape
Interview with Marc Le Pape: Chronicle of a genocide
07/05/2017 Marc Le PapeMarc 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)".
Summer reading
07/03/2017 Rony Brauman Jean-Hervé Bradol Michaël Neuman Marc Le Pape Judith Soussan Fabrice WeissmanA selection of books chosen by members of Crash. Happy summer and happy reading !
Humanitarian Aid, Genocide and Mass Killings. MSF, The Rwandan Experience, 1982-97
11/28/2016 Jean-Hervé Bradol Marc Le PapeInterview with Jean-Hervé Bradol and Marc Le Pape. The book is published by Manchester University Press and will be out in January 2017.
Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings. Médecins Sans Frontières, the Rwandan experience, 1982-97
11/04/2016 Read moreHumanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings. Médecins Sans Frontières, the Rwandan experience, 1982-97
11/04/2016 Jean-Hervé Bradol Marc Le PapeThroughout the 1990s, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was forced to face the challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of major outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and its neighbouring countries.
Disabilities and Medicine. A survey of the Amman surgical reconstruction project 2012
10/02/2013 Marc Le Pape Suzanne BradolOur survey bears something of a resemblance to a study carried out by Vanja Kovacic in Homa Bay, Kenya, in which she investigated patients’ disease coping mechanisms and their “dependence on medical institutions”.
Humanitarian exoticism
04/11/2012 Marc Le PapeThis article is about humanitarian exoticism and culturalist convictions: those to which members of NGOs currently adhere.
Follow-up to "Wartime rapes: men, too"
01/23/2012 Marc Le PapeIn "Wartime rapes: men, too", I discussed an article, "The rape of men", by Will Storr published in The Observer on 17 July 2011.
Wartime rapes: men, too
12/05/2011 Marc Le PapeSince the beginning of the 2000s, a number of English-language researchers have regularly asked the following question: why do international aid organisations pay so little attention to rapes of men and boys committed during armed conflicts?