How can aid workers help war victims without falling prey to, or becoming complicit with, their persecutors?
Humanitarian organisations have an ambiguous relationship with the violence of war. Seeking to relieve its severity, they contribute to its continuation to varying degrees while subjecting themselves to becoming targets. This collection of studies explores the way aid workers attempt to “humanise” war and face the risk of becoming victims of or complicit in the war.
![La criminalisation de l’ennemi et son impact sur l’action humanitaire Un signe d'interdiction des armes est collé sur la fenêtre d'une voiture](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF181003-arm-prohibition.jpg?h=9fa9082b&itok=TlQxP8D6)
Review "Aid in Danger: The Perils and Promise of Humanitarianism"
03/29/2016This review of Larissa Fast's " 'Aid in Danger'. The Perils and Promise of Humanitarianism" was published in the International Review of the Red Cross (Volume 96 / Issue 894)
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Saving Lives and Staying Alive: Humanitarian Security in the Age of Risk Management
03/29/2016When MSF nurse Chantal Kaghoma regained her freedom in August 2014 after being held hostage for thirteen months by rebel group ADF in the DRC, she said, “While I was in prison with all the other hostages, I had lost all faith in everyone"
![Transport de refugies bosniaques par le HCR. MSF participe depuis la mi-1993, sous la coordination de MSF Belgique, a l’assistance medicale et chirugicale aupres des populations des enclaves de Srebrenica, Zepa et de Gorazde, en Bosnie orientale.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2021-05/MSF4704%28High%29%20%281%29.jpg?itok=F_nI_9_b)
MSF and the war in the former Yugoslavia 1991-2003
02/09/2016On 14 December 1995, the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords ended the separatist war in former Yugoslavia and created the State of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
![Transport de refugies bosniaques par le HCR. MSF participe depuis la mi-1993, sous la coordination de MSF Belgique, a l’assistance medicale et chirugicale aupres des populations des enclaves de Srebrenica, Zepa et de Gorazde, en Bosnie orientale.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2021-05/MSF4704%28High%29%20%281%29.jpg?itok=F_nI_9_b)
MSF and the war in the former Yugoslavia 1991-2003
02/09/2016On 14 December 1995, the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords ended the separatist war in former Yugoslavia and created the State of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
![HIV Project, Mumbai INDIA Security Guard at the entrance of MSF HIV/DRTB Clinic in Mumbai, India](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-11/z.jpg?itok=Y380NzDk)
Soon released! Saving Lives and Staying Alive
02/08/2016 Read more![Tuzla: Refugees from the Srebrenica enclave (women, children and elderly), just one day after it's fall. Juillet 1995](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2021-05/MSF47389%28High%29.jpg?itok=KbUIAkMK)
MSF and Srebrenica, 1993-2003
07/17/2015The case study ‘MSF and Srebrenica 1993-2003' explores the constraints and dilemmas raised when MSF spoke out about the events that occurred in Srebrenica's Muslim enclave.
![Tuzla: Refugees from the Srebrenica enclave (women, children and elderly), just one day after it's fall. Juillet 1995](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2021-05/MSF47389%28High%29.jpg?itok=KbUIAkMK)
MSF and Srebrenica, 1993-2003
07/17/2015The case study ‘MSF and Srebrenica 1993-2003' explores the constraints and dilemmas raised when MSF spoke out about the events that occurred in Srebrenica's Muslim enclave.
![Comment les humanitaires travaillent face à Al-Qaïda et l’Etat islamique Ruines d'un hôpital à Alep en Syrie](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF179354-hospital-ruins-aleppo.jpg?h=d8a5f997&itok=STkVz1wt)
How humanitarians work when faced with Al Qaeda and the Islamic state
02/20/2015How to intervene with the civilian populations in the middle of the war in Syria? Jean-Hervé Bradol, director of studies at Crash and former project coordinator for the northern part of Syria in 2013, testifies about the negotiations carried out in Syria in cities taken by groups affiliated to Al Qaeda or the Islamic State. This article was published on the Mediapart website on February 1, 2015.
![Drame humanitaire en Méditerranée Un responsable MSF mène un sauvetage en Méditerranée](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF152400-Bourbon-Argos-Rescue.jpg?h=3fe5b8b7&itok=ALN0SAJB)
The State of the Humanitarian Sector
01/30/2015This article is an English translation of an interview of Fabrice Weissman about the State of the Humanitarian Sector, in Revue Internationale et Stratégique (n°98, 2015/2) published by the Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques