Humanitarian actors and practices

La ville de Sagaing en Birmanie après le cyclone Nargis Inconnu Analysis

L’ingérence humanitaire ou le droit du plus fort

06/30/2015 Rony Brauman

Le texte ci-dessous est la transcription d'une intervention donnée dans le cadre du colloque « L'Ingérence », organisé par la Fondation Res Publica le 19 janvier 2015. 

Cette conférence porte exclusivement sur des interventions armées menées contre la volonté de l'Etat du pays concerné, qu'elles aient été seulement promues sans voir le jour (Birmanie, Darfour) ou qu'elles aient eu lieu (Kosovo, Irak, Libye).

 

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How humanitarians work when faced with Al Qaeda and the Islamic state

02/20/2015 Jean-Hervé Bradol

How 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.

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Un responsable MSF mène un sauvetage en Méditerranée Francesco Zizola Analysis

The State of the Humanitarian Sector

01/30/2015 Fabrice Weissman

This 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

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Statue de Kim Il Sung à Pyongyang, Corée du Nord. PETER VAN QUAILLE Speaking Out Case Studies

MSF and North Korea 1995-1998

10/01/2014 Laurence Binet

The 'MSF in North Korea 1995-1998’ case study is describing the constraints and dilemmas that led Médecins Sans Frontières to speak out publicly while its teams were trying to bring assistance to the North Korean population on its territory between 1995 and 1998 and to the North Korean refugees in Asia in the following years.

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A woman is building a shelter in Dadaab refugee camp Lynsey Addario Opinion

The Poverty of Humanitarian Critique?

07/08/2014 Bertrand Taithe

While MSF has just recently launched a report, 'Where is everyone?', aiming at exposing the limitations and deficiencies of the international aid response to crises, Bertrand Taithe (HCRI) asks whether the approach taken and the question asked are the right ones.

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Un homme transporte des sodas dans le camp de réfugiés de Dadaab Spencer Platt Analysis

MSF and the aid system: choosing not to choose

07/03/2014 Michaël Neuman Rony Brauman

We often hear it said within MSF that the aid system is unable to provide effective relief, or that the aid system's ability to provide aid is in decline. Rony Brauman and Michaël Neuman aim at exploring MSF's relationship with the aid system, while showing how the ambitions of the aid system itself have evolved.

 

 

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