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Call for papers – International aid under threat: What consequences? What responses? What reconfigurations?

The Humanitarian Alternatives review is issuing a call for papers for its 29th issue, which will be published in November 2025. This issue will focus on the following theme: “International aid under threat: What consequences? What responses? What reconfigurations?”. If you are a humanitarian...

Editorial

Understanding the crisis of humanitarian action in the age of climate change

Clara Egger - Fernando Espada

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Climate change and humanitarian crises: a nuanced perspective

Rodrigo Mena

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The climate crisis, an opportunity to reform the humanitarian sector

Pierre-Marie Goimard - Chloé Orland - Olivia Pélegrin

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From ecological transition to environmental justice: reflections and dilemmas

Aline Hubert

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One health and planetary health in humanitarian settings

Davide Ziveri - Isabelle Bolon - Rafael Ruiz de Castañeda

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The Naxalite conflict in India: what role for humanitarian organisations?

An interminable conflict has been shaking the Indian Union since the 1960s. Often overlooked in international discussions and by the media, the “Naxalite–Maoist insurgency” sheds light on the particularities of Indian society and the social inequalities that run through it. Yet the Naxalite movement, driven by communist (and more specifically Maoist) ideology, is worthy of […]

Nancy Saurelle Ndjomo Kabayene - Samuel Cédric Ngueda

Ethics

Ethical considerations around the use of humanitarian imagery

The growth of social media has reduced the world to a “global village” in which images travel fast and far. When they feature vulnerable people, the impact can be disastrous. Starting from a recent controversy involving Médecins Sans Frontières, the authors present a thought-provoking and salutary reflection on an issue that no humanitarian organisation is […]

Françoise Duroch - Maelle L’Homme

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Indignity at the gates of Europe

Humacoop-Amel France is one of those activist organisations that never forget the tragic situation of the exiled people “at the gates of Europe”, particularly considering that Greece is regarded as an airlock for people making their way to other countries on the continent.

Guy Caussé - Léna Lefebvre

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The principles and challenges of the interplay and dual commitment between research and humanitarian action

The author’s career perfectly illustrates the hybridisation at work between the worlds of humanitarian action and research. Drawing on her experiences and various projects carried out in Laos, Pascale Hancart Petitet presents her reflections and analysis of this “dual commitment”.

Pascale Hancart Petitet

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Interviews

Ukraine-Gaza: Exchange of views

Published on 29 April 2024. The discussion took place on 4 April 2024, as an introduction to the Alternatives Humanitaires General Assembly. The reason why these two conflicts are attracting so much international attention is because they undeniably mark a turning point that Humanitarian Alternatives felt duty-bound to analyse. A complex and ambitious issue of […]

Culture

The Ukraine war as seen by press cartoonists

On the publication of Fichez-nous la paix ! (Leave us in peace!) in the Cartooning for Peace collection, published by Gallimard and in partnership with Amnesty International, Kak and Vladimir Kazanevsky explain the importance of their profession: press cartoonists. Joint interview by Nicolas Foucher of Amnesty International. The president of Cartooning for Peace, Kak is […]

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Interview with Plantu and Reza: “Infuriating doves of peace”

The renowned photographer Reza and Le Monde’s iconic cartoonist Plantu have just published a book in which they revisit eighty or so of their respective photos and cartoons. The publication, which covers a vast range of historical events and global issues – from the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979 to the genocide of the Tutsis […]

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Interview with Bruno Cabanes : “Humanitarian Photography”: an historian’s point of view

Bruno Cabanes is an historian, specialised in contemporary history. He is the Donald G. and Mary A. Dunn Chair in Military History at Ohio State University in the United States. He has written several books on the First World War and the post-war era, including The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918-1924 (Cambridge […]

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