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.
![Review: Saving Lives and Staying Alive: Humanitarian Security in the Age of Risk Management Mamadou M’Baiki health centre in Bangui, CAR](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-11/MSB17817-saving-lives-and-staying-alive.jpg?h=52c738ca&itok=U9dgbztl)
Review "Saving Lives and Staying Alive: Humanitarian Security in the Age of Risk Management"
11/24/2017Kevin MacMahon's review of "Saving Lives and Staying Alive: Humanitarian Security in the Age of Risk Management" (Michaël Neuman and Fabrice Weissman, London: C. Hurst & Co, 2016) is published in the Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict (2016, pages 69-70).
![Les amis démocrates des dictateurs 13 avril 1994. Départ du convoi conjoint MSF-CICR de Bujumbura vers Kigali.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-10/MSB7634-les-amis-democrates-des-dictateurs.jpg?h=f97b2fe7&itok=CwTOKo_T)
Dictators’ Democratic Friends
10/27/2017This op-ed article was published on 27 October 2017 in the French weekly Marianne. He writes it in the backdrop of a controversy around a "Que Sais-Je" book on Rwanda published by the Belgian researcher, Filip Reyntjens and the accusations against him that he rewrites history and seeks to minor the genocide of the Tutsis in 1994.
![Écrire sur le Rwanda : les compagnons de route du président Kagame Avril 1994. Départ vers l’aéroport de Kigali de la première équipe évacuée après trois semaines de mission MSF au Rwanda](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-10/MSB7633_Medium-ecrire-sur-le-rwanda.jpg?h=a96de101&itok=MX6yGIvH)
Writing About Rwanda: President Kagame’s Fellow Travellers
10/23/2017How can anyone write about Rwanda without being called a denialist? Marc Le Pape tries to craft an answer in this article, published on the website The Conversation on 19 October 2017.
![Mise à l’abri, hospitalité ou accueil des réfugiés : les ambiguïtés irrésolues du camp de La Linière Le camp de La Linière, à Grande Synthe, en Juillet 2016](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-07/MSF171190-sheltering-hosting-receiving-refugees-la-liniere-camp.jpg?h=34e6237c&itok=6JD-Oapr)
Sheltering, hosting or receiving refugees: the unresolved ambiguities of the La Linière refugee camp
07/05/2017Following the dismantlement of the Basroch camp in Grande-Synthe and the resettlement of refugees in the new La Linière camp, in the spring 2016, Michaël Neuman and Franck Esnée wanted to focus their analysis and story on the “camp” – as an object –, its nature and management. This article was originally published in Alternatives Humanitaires #5, in July 2017.
![Calais est devenue la cage d'un zoo Un homme installe une tente dans la jungle de Calais, en septembre 2016](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-06/MSF176343-calais-has-become-a-cage-in-a-zoo.jpg?h=b165e9a8&itok=sKvzcOb9)
Calais has become a cage in a jungle
06/17/2017In this post, published in Border Criminologies, Michaël Neuman and Corinne Torre speak out against the inhuman conditions imposed on migrants and refugees in Calais by the French state. This piece was originally published in French in Le Monde.
![Review "Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of practice" Medical staff prepare a 20-year-old Afghani man for surgery at the MSF supported hospital in Boost, Lashka Ghar, Afghanistan.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-06/MSF168859-review-medical-humanitarianism.jpg?h=25ee8fca&itok=G1JMAXYq)
Review "Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of practice"
03/30/2017Michaël Neuman's review of "Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of practice" edited by Sharon Abramowitz and Catherine Panter-Brick (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
![Quand les camps deviennent des villes Une femme et deux enfants traversent une route dans le camp de réfugiés de Domiz, au Kurdistan Irakien](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-06/MSB10305-when-camps-become-cities.jpg?h=f97b2fe7&itok=OGizYwYq)
When camps become cities
03/06/2017There can scarcely be any more sensitive marker of geopolitical transformations than the refugee. Not the individual refugee as such, but the phenomenon of refugees, the representations that make them visible and the discourse around them. From this point of view, 2016 was a year of upheaval, the like of which Europe had not seen since the war in the former Yugoslavia.
![Dying for humanitarian ideas: Using images and statistics to manufacture humanitarian martyrdom A group of humanitarian workers in Honduras](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-06/MSF41528-dying-for-humanitarian-ideas.jpg?h=7746c725&itok=uUVJIIbi)
Dying for humanitarian ideas: Using images and statistics to manufacture humanitarian martyrdom
02/15/2017This article has been inspired by an analysis conducted by MSF-Crash of humanitarian security management and why and in what ways it is evolving. We endeavour not only to describe humanitarian imagery, but to analyse its consequences - the risks it generates for aid workers operating in perilous situations.
![The critical role of humanitarian critique Doctors carry a patient infected by ebola](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSB17298-staff-collect-a-Ebola-patient.jpg?h=3efd4b86&itok=LjE9VBcy)
Médecins Sans Frontières and medical quality
01/01/2017The question of quality in the work of Médecins Sans Frontières has been asked from the very beginning of MSF's existence. On the one hand, the issue of improving the quality of practice is a part of ordinary professional activity; on the other hand, Médecins Sans Frontières' work involved working in distant lands and very specific environments, which demanded adjustments to medical practice as a result.