Myfanwy is a lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Oxford. She holds a DPhil from the Oxford Department of International Development, a master degree in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies from the London School of Economics as well as a bachelor degree in History from the University of Bristol. Her work focuses on humanitarianism, conflict and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Myfanwy James
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Médecins Sans Frontières and Humanitarian Negotiations for Access in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Myfanwy James is a research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine & DPhil (PhD) graduate from the University of Oxford. In this video, she presents her thesis entitled: “Instruments of Identity: Médecins Sans Frontières and Humanitarian Negotiations for Access in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (RDC)”.
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Book Review: Jean-Hervé Bradol and Marc Le Pape, Humanitarian Aid, Genocide and Mass Killings: Médecins Sans Frontières, the Rwandan Experience, 1982–97
This book describes and analyses the work of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the Great Lakes Region between 1982 and 1997. It explores the everyday, operational and political dilemmas faced by MSF staff in the field and the debates that followed, as they asked themselves: ‘how should we react and what action should we take’ in the wake of mass violence (p. 4). In effect, the authors ask: (how) could MSF prevent itself being manipulated or becoming complicit in the everyday atrocities in the field?
