5 operational realities of detention in contemporary armed conflict November 30, 2018 12 mins read Counterterrorism / Detention / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Terrorism and IHL Laurent Saugy & Tilman Rodenhäuser Hidden behind thick walls and barbed wire, detention realities are generally little known to the ...
‘Basics’ won’t do: A response to Marc DuBois’ ‘new humanitarian basics’ November 13, 2018 14 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Protracted Conflict / Sexual Violence Ricardo Fal-Dutra Santos This blog post aims to challenge Marc DuBois’ proposition of a ‘new humanitarian basics’ and ...
Respect for the dead under Islamic law: Considerations for humanitarian forensics November 1, 2018 22 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Islamic Law / Law and Conflict / Religion Ahmed Al-Dawoody During armed conflict, forensic specialists encounter huge challenges in ensuring the proper and dignified management ...
Call for papers: Historical perspectives on medical care in armed conflict October 24, 2018 5 mins read Call for papers / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict Trevor Keck The rules protecting medical care are considered one of the cornerstones of international humanitarian law (IHL). The first modern IHL treaty (e.g., Geneva ...
How identity affects the internal threats aid workers face October 18, 2018 9 mins read Analysis / Gender and conflict / Humanitarian Action / Identity / Sexual Violence / The most read blog posts in 2018 Adelicia Fairbanks The #AidToo movement has shown that aid workers are not invulnerable to internal security threats ...
Shining a spotlight on sexual violence in war: The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize October 11, 2018 8 mins read Analysis / Gender and conflict / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Sexual Violence Helen Durham The Nobel Committee have awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize to Nadia Murad and Denis ...
Revisiting the nexus: Numbers, principles and the issue of social change October 4, 2018 11 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Protracted Conflict Gilles Carbonnier The decades-old debate on the humanitarian-development divide has resurfaced with conflict prevention and peace as a third dimension in the so-called nexus. This ...
Internal displacement: Some reflections on cracking the urban challenge September 23, 2018 11 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Protracted Conflict Catherine-Lune Grayson The world is rapidly urbanizing and so is internal displacement. Yet we—humanitarians—often fail to properly understand how displaced people cope in such settings ...
Bombs & blast waves: Why children in conflict need special care September 13, 2018 9 mins read Analysis / Children in conflict / Humanitarian Action / Stories Paul Reavley I’ve deployed numerous times during my career in the military, and on every deployment, I ...
Detention and armed conflicts: Exploring realities and remedies September 10, 2018 9 mins read Detention / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Sexual Violence Helen Durham The honour of delivering one of the opening speeches at the Sanremo Roundtable on the ...
Going local, going safely August 8, 2018 10 mins read Humanitarian Action / Localisation Adelicia Fairbanks The role of local actors in supporting humanitarian efforts and the security of aid workers is not new. They have been at the ...
Continuing the conversation: Which masculinities, which wars? July 5, 2018 7 mins read Gender / Gender and conflict / Humanitarian Action / Identity / Sexual Violence David Duriesmith Earlier this year Hugo Slim penned a blog post with the important call to begin ...
