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.
![MSF à Grande-Synthe : enseignements d’une improbable coalition d’acteurs Une femme porte un enfant dans le camp de Grande Synthe](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF160063-MSF-in-Grande-Synthe-woman-with-child.jpg?h=a6c18d02&itok=vAnqArK2)
Temporary palliatives to an ongoing humanitarian need: MSF’s intervention in Dunkirk
11/24/2016This article was originally published in Humanitarian Exchange Magazine #67 in September 2016. In this paper, Angélique Muller and Michaël Neuman attempt to explore the lessons learnt through examining the decisions as well as the difficulties MSF encountered in its provision of assistance to migrants in Grande-Synthe.
![Génocide et crimes de masse. L’expérience rwandaise de MSF Couverture du livre Génocide et crimes de masse. L’expérience rwandaise de MSF](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-06/MSF-cover-genocide-et-crimes-de-masse.jpg?h=ff3521a8&itok=Pmgy3fqc)
Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings. Médecins Sans Frontières, the Rwandan experience, 1982-97
11/04/2016Throughout the 1990s, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was forced to face the challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of major outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and its neighbouring countries.
![expérience rwandaise Départ du convoi conjoint MSF-CICR de Bujumbura vers Kigali](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-11/z0.jpg?itok=bnuPsgIu)
Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings. Médecins Sans Frontières, the Rwandan experience, 1982-97
11/04/2016 Read more![Humanitarian Emergency in Northeast Nigeria A young girl walks in the streets of Bama](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF172080-girl-in-Bama-street.jpg?h=40f5b34c&itok=DHnTWVQD)
War and humanitarian aid
07/25/2016Rony Brauman focuses on the humanitarian environment and practices in war, in order to try to understand and analyze its political and ethical stakes. Starting with the creation of the Red Cross at the end of the XIXth century, he then focused on the contemporary postcolonial period, switching between various scales and reporting on contradictory points of view and issues.
![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.
![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 moreThe Calais “jungle” today: France’s shame
12/05/2015This article was originally published in French in Slate Magazine on 4 December 2015, accessible here. The article was translated into English by Teresa Piacentini for the University of Glasgow GramNet blog.