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.
![Du libérateur à l’envahisseur Char d'assaut au Congo](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF30249-military-tank-in-congo.jpg?itok=TQOb3oQs)
Military involvement in Refugee crisis, a positive evolution?
05/01/2001Military involvement in refugee relief operations has undergone a remarkable evolution over the last decade, from providing logistical support to aid organisations in Kurdistan in 1991 to leading relief efforts for Kosovar refugees in 1999.
![Greenpeace and MSF - Lesbos, Greece Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) and Greenpeace conduct joint sea operations to provide assistance at sea to boats in distress](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF158599-greenpeace-and-msf-in-greece.jpg?h=f1d6ed9d&itok=0ZVyZzpL)
The Limits and Risks of Regulation Mechanisms for Humanitarian Action
10/01/2000This brief article aims to clarify some of the central concerns held by organisations like Médecins sans Frontières as regards the approach and the application of uniform set of standards to respond to the needs of people in distress.
![Rwanda, politique de terreur, privilège d’impunité Un enfant fait la queue pour avoir de l'eau](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF49246-kid-in-queue-for-water.jpg?h=e977d099&itok=LHxqoJil)
Terror and Impunity in Rwanda
08/01/2000Not having seen the genocidal drift of Hutu Power in 1994 coming, the international community grants Paul Kagame's RPF the impunity of victims. Yet such power also lends itself to criminal acts. The authors express their indignance that NGOs and international organisations - invoking the duty of remembrance - join in the endless evocation of the past that masks the political phenomena at the root of the current violence.
![International Migrants Day MSF psychologist helps a person to walk](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF181949-msf-psychologist.jpg?h=696bd128&itok=UlnLmGyP)
The evolving role of the state, donors and NGOs providing health services in a liberal environment, Some insights from Uganda
08/01/1999Nicolas de Torrente is questioning how far have the liberal economic reforms in Uganda seeking to rebuild and reshape the health care system, how are reforms affecting the actual delivery of health services and what are the implications of these reforms in terms of the sustainability and equity.
![Life in Idomeni , Greec Refugees from Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria wait to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia at Idomeni](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF158425-refugees-in-idomeni.jpg?h=b0960daf&itok=JzzkOqzE)
Reconstituting whose Social Order, NGOS in disrupted States
07/06/1999What role should NGOs play in states undergoing reconstruction? What position should they take vis-à-vis civilian donors (governments and supranational institutions) and armed forces?
![L’humanitaire est-il un engagement ? Au camp de Nyarugusu en Tanzanie](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF179629-refugees.jpg?itok=1oSAdhqb)
Is Humanitarism a form of Political Commitment?
10/01/1996Behind the question, "Is humanitarianism a commitment?", Rony Brauman warns against the use of humanitarianism in the public arena. Investing the political realm with the moral expectations of a better world, humanitarianism might unintentionally be helping to make "survival of the fittest" more palatable.
![Populations en danger 1995 Couverture du livre Populations en danger 1995](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-06/MSF-cover-populations-en-danger-1995.jpg?h=976070e2&itok=XDw-VQVY)
Populations in danger 1995
11/01/1995« Never again »: in the wake of the second World War, the terror caused by the Holocaust led the community of states to condemn genocide as a crime and to create a new international organization, the United Nations. And yet, half a century later, the international community did nothing to prevent the first undeniable genocide since that of the Jews: it let the massacre of the Rwandan Tutsis and merely sent humanitarian aid, even though it was nearly over.
![L’action humanitaire Réfugiés en Tanzanie - novembre 2016](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF179617-tanzania_0.jpg?itok=yLD7x_dp)
Humanitarian aid
05/01/1994For the publication of the Dictionnaire d'Ethique et de philosophie morale, the former president of Médecins Sans Frontières, Rony Brauman, offers a definition of humanitarian aid.
![Aider, Sauver, pourquoi, comment Un travailleur humanitaire MSF dans une salle](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF192934-msf-staff.jpg?h=f6121117&itok=kHlxziBn)
Life, Death and Aid
11/01/1993With the end of the Cold War came the hope of a "New World Order". yet the tragedies of war and famine continue to dominate our headlines. Humanitarian law is still violated every day. Emergency aid from the United Nations and donor governments remains inadequate and military interventions often fail to restore durable peace.