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Brax for the event “Humanitarian Alternatives : a space for reflection, our common good”

Samuel H., aka Brax, is THE French humanitarian cartoonist. Brought up on the Médecins Sans Frontières banner, he has since moved on to defend human rights with our friends at Amnesty International. And for more than 20 years, he has been using his unmistakable style of drawing and his acerbic...

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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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“We don’t do mental health”: a review of Médecins Sans Frontières’ first “psy” mission

Leninakan, December 1989. It was a year after the earthquake that devastated Armenia that Médecins Sans Frontières launched its first “psy” mission. The author looks back at the reflections and hesitations that surrounded this “time zero of mental health” within the NGO. They will undoubtedly leave their mark on the mental healthcare projects that its various […]

Laure Wolmark

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Critical perspectives on child protection in the Democratic Republic of Congo

In light of a violence prevention programme for children and young people, the author challenges the traditional notions of victimhood and vulnerability. Agentivity and capacity for initiative are valued in order to remove children from categories that can, ironically, turn them into “bad victims”.

Camille Maubert

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Humanitarian drones: useful tool, toxic image

Undoubtedly it is technological tools that crystallize fantasies of efficiency and the greatest ambiguities the most. Drones induce multiple confusions – between civil and military use, interests of populations, NGOs and companies that do not always converge – that Michiel Hofman decrypts for us.

Michiel Hofman

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From resilience to localisation, or how slogans are not enough for an in-depth reform of the humanitarian sector

At regular intervals, a new slogan echoes around the humanitarian sector, with unifying virtues that are supposed to embody its reform. Yet fads pass, and often the poor integration of innovations and new technologies is deplored. What must we conclude? The two authors undertake here a critical exercise, starting from resilience, and apprehending the implementation of […]

Benoît Lallau - Perrine Laissus-Benoist

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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 […]

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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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