Laurence Hoenig
Op-ed
03/23/2007
Jean-Hervé Bradol
Fabrice Weissman
Jean-Hervé Bradol and Fabrice Weissman respond to Collectif Urgence Darfour's call for armed intervention in Darfur to "stop the massacres," and to promises along these lines by candidates in France's presidential election.
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Francesco Zizola
Analysis
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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Analysis
07/01/2008
Fabrice Weissman
With 13,000 humanitarian workers and a hundred relief agencies, Darfur hosts the largest humanitarian operation in the world. The aid apparatus started its full deployment in mid-2004 in a context of acutely high mortality among internally displaced persons (IDPs) gathered in camps and civilians remaining in rural areas.
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Opinion
03/01/2009
Rony Brauman
Humanitarian law was designed as a normative framework, not as an indictment. With this in mind, Rony Brauman tries to define what constitutes a human shield.
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Benoit Finck
Analysis
07/25/2016
Rony Brauman
Rony 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.
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Carl De Keyzer
Analysis
04/28/2004
Fabrice Weissman
Using the example of Liberia, Fabrice Weissman examines the public statements of NGOs and their positions with regard to denunciation and/or calls for international intervention.
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Opinion
08/16/2004
Fabrice Weissman
Fabrice Weissman reminds us that while the clarity of the humanitarian emblem is no guarantee of absolute safety, it is nevertheless an essential prerequisite to it.
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Yann Libessart
Analysis
09/01/1993
Rony Brauman
In 1993, Médecins Sans Frontières left Somalia and denounced the methods of UN troops who were violating the very humanitarian principles in whose name they intervened.
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Pep Bonet
Analysis
01/01/2006
Jean-Hervé Jézéquel
The much publicized figure of the child soldier in Africa is placed in context in this historiographical survey: the author ties it to the general subject of children in war – which has affected America and Europe at different times – and reveals the necessity of developing a history of child status in Africa.
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Michael Zumstein
Op-ed
11/03/2006
Fabrice Weissman
Aid organisations have been held hostage to the showdown between the Sudanese government and the international community.
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Louise Annaud
Analysis
05/01/1994
Rony Brauman
For the publication of the Dictionnaire d'Ethique et de philosophie morale, the former president of Médecins Sans Frontières, Rony Brauman, offers a definition of humanitarian aid.
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Helmut Wachter
Analysis
12/05/2006
Xavier Crombé
MSF is an independent organisation that carefully protects its autonomy. In this article, Xavier Crombé draws the connection between this founding principle and the issue of security for humanitarian actors.
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