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Mental health: a necessary global approach

Since the mid-1990s, mental health has been recognised as a crucial aspect of human suffering in humanitarian crises. Many organisations have built expertise specific to acute crisis situations based on years of experience and practices, developed in Bosnia, Rwanda or Chechnya. This increased awareness has highlighted new needs and formalised new approaches spanning the whole […]

Pierre Gallien - Stéphanie Stern

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

Laure Wolmark

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Treating mental health in conflict zones in Burkina Faso with Traumatic Stress Relief (TSR)

Adeline Pupat - Dodo Ilunga Diemu - Harouna Yacoubou - Jean-Pierre Alley - Victoire Hubert

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Coloniality and intersectionality in mental health: a rallying call

Christian Laval - Guillaume Pégon - Marie Viviane Goupougouni Leni

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Areas of exclusion, masculinity and mental health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bénédiction Kimathe - Camille Maubert

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Standardisation challenged by local dynamics: the example of mental health programmes in the Chad Basin

Florence Chatot - Henri Mbarkoutou Mahamat

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One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine: humanitarian needs are as great as ever

Published on February 27, 2023 To quote this article: Sara Germain, Janyck Beaulieu, Stéphanie Maltais, and François Audet, “One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine: humanitarian needs are as great as ever”, Humanitarian Alternatives, 27 February 2023, https://www.alternatives-humanitaires.org/en/2023/02/27/one-year-after-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine A few weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we published an article[1]François Audet, Sara Germain […]

Sara Germain - François Audet - Janyck Beaulieu - Stéphanie Maltais

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Afghanistan: eternal turmoil

At the age of 25, having studied art and photography at Université Paris 8, Sandra Calligaro travelled to Kabul to fulfil her teenage dream of becoming a war correspondent. Having gone for a month, she ended up spending nearly a decade there. In the end, she brought back very few shots of fighting from this […]

Sandra Calligaro

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Extension of the “anti-associative counter-revolution”: diagnosis, challenges, solutions.

Co-director of this issue’s Focus, with Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief

Philippe Ryfman

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Russian civil society put to the test by the invasion of Ukraine

Does Russian civil society still exist since the invasion of Ukraine? After a look back at the conditions of its emergence in post-Soviet Russia, the authors go back over the progressive rise of repressive measures since the beginning of the Putin years. They show how the invasion of Ukraine is a kind of paroxysm, whilst […]

Anne Le Huérou - Aude Merlin

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Reflections on patriarchy and the fight against gender-based and sexual violence in the humanitarian sector

If the humanitarian sector is not immune to gender-based and sexual violence, it is because it is subject to patriarchal male-female dynamics, as are so many other sectors of society. Some of its specific characteristics can facilitate violence against vulnerable populations whilst others allow it to “immunise” itself against their complaints. To counter the patriarchy’s […]

Segolen Guillaumat

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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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Video – Interview with Jean-Christophe Rufin – co-founder of Humanitarian Alternatives

Published on February 22, 2021 In February 2021, Humanitarian Alternatives celebrates its fifth anniversary. From the lessons of the Ebola crisis to the pandemic we are facing today, from climate change to the generational evolution that is shaking up the aid sector, from the geopolitical transformations to the technological innovations that are transforming the way […]

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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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Interview with Joël Glasman: Humanitarian statistics

Joël Glasman is a historian and professor at the University of Bayreuth (Germany). Here, the author discusses his book with Vincent Hiribarren, Senior Lecturer in Modern African History, World History and Environmental History at King’s College London. What prompted you to write a book on humanitarian statistics? Statistics have become central to humanitarian decision-making. The omnipresence of […]

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Mental health: a necessary global approach

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

Treating mental health in conflict zones in Burkina Faso with Traumatic Stress Relief (TSR)

Coloniality and intersectionality in mental health: a rallying call

Areas of exclusion, masculinity and mental health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Standardisation challenged by local dynamics: the example of mental health programmes in the Chad Basin

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One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine: humanitarian needs are as great as ever

Afghanistan: eternal turmoil

Extension of the “anti-associative counter-revolution”: diagnosis, challenges, solutions.

Russian civil society put to the test by the invasion of Ukraine

Reflections on patriarchy and the fight against gender-based and sexual violence in the humanitarian sector

Interviews

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

Video – Interview with Jean-Christophe Rufin – co-founder of Humanitarian Alternatives

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

Interview with Joël Glasman: Humanitarian statistics

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