Following a series of coups d'état in recent years in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, the Sahel region is undergoing a major redefinition. In a context of high insecurity, what are the possibilities for accessing populations? What are the conditions under which our teams are operating, and can we do more? This interview with Hamadoun Dicko, who is in charge of access issues in the Sahel for MSF, was originally published association's website of MSF-France.

Cet article de Michaël Neuman est paru dans le média AOC le 10 avril 2023. L'auteur explore les relations entre l'aide humanitaire et le libéralisme depuis les années 1980 jusqu'à nos jours. Il met en lumière les changements significatifs survenus depuis la fin de la Guerre froide, notamment dans le contexte de la lutte contre le terrorisme et la gestion des migrations.

Cet article de Michaël Neuman a été initialement publié dans le numéro 489 du 1 Hebdo "Que peut faire l'humanitaire ?" paru en mars 2024. L'auteur y décrit les stratégies de coopération utilisées par les ONG et particulièrement MSF pour intervenir dans des zones de conflits.

This article is an addition to Issue 25 of Humanitarian Alternatives "Food crisis: what role for humanitarian actors?", published in March 2024.

In this article, historian Eleanor Davey examines the concept of failure in the humanitarian sector through the experience of MSF and its reform process, known as La Mancha, which began in the early 2000s. The text highlights the challenges faced by MSF in recognising and resolving internal inequalities within the organisation.

Rony Brauman fut invité par Olivier Berruyer pour le site Élucid, le samedi 20 janvier, afin de proposer son analyse du conflit israélo-palestinien. Il déplore les massacres perpétrés et l'horreur de la situation, dont il peine à envisager la moindre issue. Il se montre très critique face à la politique de destruction conduite par Israël, sous le regard complaisant d'un Occident dépassé par ce conflit.

Challenging the idea that humanitarian actors can act free from politics by virtue of their principles, this chapter argues that the politicization of humanitarian aid is in fact the primary condition for its deployment. Humanitarian actors can only act if they maintain a balance between their own interests and those of people in positions of power. This raises a crucial ethical question: At what point do humanitarian organisations consider that deals reached with political powers cross the blurred but very real line beyond which humanitarian assistance does more harm than good?

Crash and iReMMO were pleased to invite you on Wednesday 6 December to a round table discussion on the challenges, constraints, and limits of humanitarian aid in Syrian government zones. This meeting was prepared and moderated by Michaël Neuman.

On September 14th, 2023, the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, the academic journal in open access, hosted jointly by the Crash, The Humanitarian Affairs Team at Save the Children UK (HAT) and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester (HCRI), has published a new issue entitled “Humanitarian numbers”. The latter focuses on the technical aspect of numbers, dealing with two main questions: What datafication means? How well does the quantitative represent reality?

This interview by Didier Billion and Marc Verzeroli was originally published in the Revue internationale et stratégique. To examine the concept of de-westernization, Rony Brauman describes the current state of international relations, marked by fluid alliances and new power relationships. He states and details his reservations about whether universal values truly exist and how the international criminal justice system functions.

Nous publions ici le compte-rendu de Jules Lyothier (Cairn, 2020)  du livre de J.-H. Bradol et M. Le Pape (Génocide et crimes de masse, 2017) car la lecture de ce texte rend sensible l’intérêt toujours actuel d’observer, et de ne pas oublier, l’expérience rwandaise de MSF entre 1982 et 1997. En effet, ce compte-rendu met en évidence plusieurs dilemmes, tensions, controverses observables autrefois mais dont certains restent bien présents et parfois vivaces aujourd’hui.

Dans cet épisode de La Zone d'Écoute, le podcast de Médecins Sans Frontières, Marion Péchayre revient sur le programme de prise en charge du cancer du col de l’utérus au Malawi.