Episode #80 Emerging Technologies in Warfare: Where do the Limits Lie? with Neil Davison

Episode #80 Emerging Technologies in Warfare: Where do the Limits Lie? with Neil Davison

May 28, 2019, Features / Humanitarian Law & Policy / Music in Exile Feature / The Future Battlefield

This episode of Intercross the Podcast is the third in our new joint series with ...

Episode #79 Harnessing Humor in Humanitarian Contexts with Pablo Suarez

Episode #79 Harnessing Humor in Humanitarian Contexts with Pablo Suarez

May 14, 2019, Features / Red Cross Movement

The evidence is irrefutable: Humor helps. Helps situations involving communications, relationships, problem solving, and productivity among others. So much so, in fact, that ...

Episode #78 ‘Every Issue is an Access Issue’: Humanitarian Challenges with Jacob Kurtzer

Episode #78 ‘Every Issue is an Access Issue’: Humanitarian Challenges with Jacob Kurtzer

May 7, 2019, Features / Policy

Rule 55 of Customary Law states that ‘The parties to the conflict must allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief ...

Episode #77 The Impact of Violence and Conflict on Education

Episode #77 The Impact of Violence and Conflict on Education

May 7, 2019, Features / ICRC Operations

Armed conflict and other situations of violence deprive those in the midst of it of the essentials – food, clean water, health care, ...

Episode #76 Audio Series: The Aftermath of Idai with Katie Wilkes, Khatija Nxedlana and Crystal Wells

Episode #76 Audio Series: The Aftermath of Idai with Katie Wilkes, Khatija Nxedlana and Crystal Wells

April 30, 2019, Features / ICRC Operations / Red Cross Movement

It has been six weeks since Cyclone Idai made landfall in southern Africa, unleashing unprecedented devastation and destruction on communities in ...

Episode #75 Audio Series: The Massacre in Mali with Insaf Mustapha Charaf and Francoise Lambert

Episode #75 Audio Series: The Massacre in Mali with Insaf Mustapha Charaf and Francoise Lambert

April 25, 2019, Features / ICRC Operations

In late March, the small village of Ogossagou in Central Mali experienced a horrific massacre. The scene, from those who were there, looked ...

Episode #74 Using Innovative Financial Models to Maximize Sustainable Impact with Juan Coderque

Episode #74 Using Innovative Financial Models to Maximize Sustainable Impact with Juan Coderque

April 23, 2019, Features / Music in Exile Feature / Policy

Responding to today’s most complex humanitarian challenges, particularly those in protracted conflicts, requires innovative approaches and mobilizing a range of actors. Many have ...

Episode #73 Transformative Change and the Future of Humanitarian Action with Yves Daccord

Episode #73 Transformative Change and the Future of Humanitarian Action with Yves Daccord

April 16, 2019, Features / ICRC Operations / The People Behind ICRC

In this episode of Intercross the Podcast with speak with ICRC’s Director General Yves Daccord who was in town for last week’s World ...

Episode #72 Five Years in the Donbas with Alain Aeschlimann

Episode #72 Five Years in the Donbas with Alain Aeschlimann

April 9, 2019, Features / ICRC Operations / The People Behind ICRC

IThe conflict in the Donbas is entering its fifth year, and heavy weaponry remains in regular use—with far-reaching humanitarian consequences for this predominantly ...

Episode #71 Audio Series/Life in Al Hol: Voices from Syria with Sarah Al-Zawqari and Adnan Hezam

Episode #71 Audio Series/Life in Al Hol: Voices from Syria with Sarah Al-Zawqari and Adnan Hezam

April 3, 2019, Features / ICRC Operations / The People Behind ICRC

It’s been eight years since fighting began in Syria. Out of 18 million people living in the country, 13.1 million of them require ...