Divided together: how families of the missing build peace

November 11, 2025 12 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Humanitarian Action / IHL / Social Inclusion / Special Themes / Upholding humanity in war: the Global IHL Initiative Jill Stockwell, Simon Robins & Martina Zaccaro

When people go missing in war, their absence lingers far beyond the battlefield – splintering ...

Goodbye is the hardest part: why is ending violence so difficult for non-state armed groups?

October 9, 2025 12 mins read Analysis / Armed Groups / Generating Respect for IHL / Identity / IHL / Influencing Behaviour in Armed Conflict / Protracted Conflict / Social Inclusion / Special Themes / Topics Thomas Evans

For groups involved in long-running non-international armed conflicts, the decision to end the use of ...

What are the transformative potentials of sexual and reproductive health and rights in humanitarian assistance: a feminist inquiry

April 18, 2024 12 mins read Access / Analysis / Gender / Gender and conflict / Health Care / Health care / Humanitarian Action / Sexual Violence / Social Inclusion / Social Protection / Special Themes Peixuan Xie

From frontline female combatants with the People’s Defence Force in Myanmar to queer Syrian refugees ...

What can the humanitarian community learn from the Colombian Truth Commission’s LGBTIQ-subchapter?

March 21, 2024 13 mins read Analysis / Gender / Gender and conflict / Health care / Humanitarian Action / Localisation / Sexual Violence / Social Inclusion / Social Protection Elias Dehnen

As part of the historic 2016 peace agreement, the “Commission for the Clarification of Truth, ...

Navigating dilemmas in people-centric humanitarian action

August 31, 2023 17 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Social Inclusion / Social Protection Indu Nepal & Natalie Klein-Kelly

There is now a general consensus that being accountable to people affected by conflict and ...