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 ...

Three reasons why education needs the support of humanitarian actors in conflict zones

December 12, 2019 11 mins read Analysis / Children in conflict / Education in Armed Conflict / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Protracted Conflict Filipa Schmitz Guinote

This week, the ICRC and the IFRC held a side event on education at 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 ...

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 ...

A humanitarian-development nexus that works

June 21, 2018 11 mins read Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Protracted Conflict / The most read blog posts in 2018 Filipa Schmitz Guinote

The decades-old discussion on the ‘humanitarian-development nexus’ is again in full swing. At the beginning, ...