War and humanitarianism, medicine and public health, rights and justice... Discover CRASH publications sorted by themes.
The fact that CRASH publications are written from an aid practitioner's, rather than researcher's, perspective, does not exempt them from the demands of rigorous research methods. We try hard at this, with the help of (volunteer) research professionals. The publications are not the MSF party line, but rather tools for reflexion based on MSF's framework and experience. They have only one purpose: to help us better understand what we are doing. Criticisms, comments and suggestions are more than welcome - they are expected.
![Medical Innovations in Humanitarian Situations Book cover of Medical Innovations in Humanitarian Situations](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-06/MSF-cover-medical-innovations-humanitarian-situations.jpg?h=c76c6211&itok=AjbZNqHt)
Medical Innovations in Humanitarian Situations
10/01/2011Medical Innovations in Humanitarian Situations explores how the particular style of humanitarian action practiced by MSF has stayed in line with the standards in scientifically advanced countries while also leading to significant improvements in the medical care delivered to people in crisis.
![Famine en Somalie : l’alerte à l’alerte Des enfants mangent de la pâte nutritive](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF105975-msf-staff-dstributing-nutritious-paste.jpg?itok=Gy5uBXR-)
Famine in Somalia : warning against the warning!
09/19/2011In the context of emergency appeals in the Horn of Africa, Rony Brauman recalls the contemporary definition of a famine. While recognising the progress made in major crisis response mechanisms, he questions the alarmist attitude of the UN.
![L’eau humanitaire est-elle potable ? L'eau potable humanitaire](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF179405%28High%29.jpg?itok=DGpDIvuX)
Is humanitarian water safe to drink?
07/04/2011Four hepatitis E epidemics have occurred in the areas in which we operate since 2000, prompting a reflection on the quality of the water produced and distributed to their populations by humanitarian organisations.
![illustration la criminalisation de l'ennemi](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2022-10/msf181003-arm-prohibition.jpg?itok=UFoFUpDs)
Criminalising the enemy and its impact on humanitarian action
12/15/2010Could a doctor working for a humanitarian organisation be sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States for having offered his “expert advice” to people linked to a “terrorist organisation”? That is what is feared by a number of civil rights’ organisations in the US since the Supreme Court declared on 21 June that the legislation known as the Material Support Statute was constitutional.
![Darfour, la cour pénale internationale se trompe campagne de vaccination à Majok](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF52454-vaccination-circuit-in-majok.jpg?h=3b6aa5e3&itok=RRDPFeU4)
Darfur: the International Criminal Court is wrong
09/10/2010Rony Brauman criticises the International Criminal Court's indictment of the Sudanese president for genocide. If the prosecutor's argument is followed, humanitarian organisations working in the displaced people's camps should be charged with complicity in genocide.
![Kibumba in eastern Congo A tank moves towards the frontlines as people are fleeing](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF30248-military-forces-and-refugees-flee.jpg?h=fe7a8985&itok=pCZU6EjW)
"Not in our name": Why Medecins sans frontières does not support the "responsability to protect"
08/01/2010Argued in the 1990s in the name of the "right or duty to intervene", the application of military might to rescue populations in danger is now debated with reference to the "Responsibility to Protect" paradigm (or "R2P" for those in the know). In this article Fabrice Weissman explains why MSF refuses to adhere to this doctrine of ‘just war', whose legalisation would effectively be legalising a new form of imperialism.
![Crimes de guerre et politiques de terreur en Tchétchénie (1994-2004) Un nouveau traitement pour les patients atteints de tuberculose à Grozny, en Tchétchénie](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2021-05/MSF7126%28High%29.jpg?itok=RO19LV0X)
War crimes and politics of terror in Chechnya (1994-2004)
07/15/2010The ‘War crimes and politics of terror in Chechnya 1994-2004’ case study describes the constraints, questions and dilemmas experienced by MSF while speaking out during the two Russian-Chechen wars and the following years of ‘normalization’.
Haiti Earthquake: What Priorities?
01/20/2010The earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince and neighboring areas has led to a worldwide surge of solidarity which we must fully appreciate because no country could face such a disaster on this scale alone.
![Médecins Sans Frontières et les sorties de guerre Médecins Sans Frontières et les sorties de guerre](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSB10391_0.jpg?itok=jPYpNJuR)
Médecins Sans Frontières and the aftermath of war
01/10/2010This study started out looking at the shift to a post-conflict situation in Katanga; the intention was to describe how MSF’s sections negotiated the transition from war to post-war.