Sara Creta
Opinion
05/11/2016
Abby Stoddard
Adele Harmer
Katherine Haver
Michaël Neuman warns that misleading data are suggesting humanitarian aid work has become more dangerous, taking particular aim at the Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD) for helping perpetuate this myth.
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Karin Ekholm
Opinion
05/11/2016
Michaël Neuman
Fabrice Weissman
We welcome Abby Stoddard, Katherine Haver and Adele Harmer's response to our critical article on the production and the use of security data in the humanitarian sector and to our book in general. In a field that has been very much lacking debate, if not controversies, we're extremely glad to see a various range of readers engaging in the discussion.
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Opinion
05/03/2016
Michaël Neuman
Michaël Neuman, co-editor of "Saving Lives and Staying Alive. Humanitarian Security in the Age of Risk Management" responds to Chris Lockyear and Andrew Cunningham's review of the book.
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Yann Libessart
Opinion
05/02/2016
Andrew Cunningham
Christopher Lockyear
Andrew Cunningham, currently an independent humanitarian researcher and analyst and Chris Lockyear, the Director of Operations for ACF USA and a former Operations Manager for MSF Operational Center Amsterdam (MSF-OCA), have sent the following response to "Saving lives and Staying alive". Let the debate live!
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Julien Rey
Op-ed
04/15/2016
Fabrice Weissman
Michaël Neuman
Since the 1990s and the rise of conflicts in West Africa, Somalia, Chechnya, the former Yugoslavia and Africa's Great Lakes region, humanitarian organisations have been warning of greater insecurity for their staff. These observations are bolstered by surveys aimed at objectively quantifying violence against humanitarian workers.
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Book
03/29/2016
Michaël Neuman
Fabrice Weissman
When 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"
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Sara Creta
Analysis
03/29/2016
Michaël Neuman
This 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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Hans Ullens/MSF
Speaking Out Case Studies
02/09/2016
Laurence Binet
On 14 December 1995, the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords ended the separatist war in former Yugoslavia and created the State of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Anshul Uniyal
News in brief
02/08/2016
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Victor J. Blue
Opinion
10/06/2015
Bertrand Taithe
This post was published as a reaction to the attack on the MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, that took place on October 3rd, 2015.
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Opinion
07/23/2015
Celine Cheng
Should eventual transition from internationally managed programmes to national ownership always be a relevant and/or realistic goal?
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Olivier Jobard/MYOP
Speaking Out Case Studies
07/17/2015
Laurence Binet
The case study ‘MSF and Srebrenica 1993-2003' explores the constraints and dilemmas raised when MSF spoke out about the events that occurred in Srebrenica's Muslim enclave.
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