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Generative artificial intelligence and humanitarian representations: mirror or solution?

Is generative artificial intelligence really revolutionising humanitarian communication? At a conference recounted by the author, researchers and practitioners agreed that AI repro­duces and amplifies age-old practices of visual manipulation. From the mission­ary photos of the nineteenth century to today’s campaigns, the stereotypes of the “white saviour” and the “passive victim” persist. Algorithms freeze these biased […]

Valérie Gorin

Trust, authenticity and the representation of suffering in the age of images produced by artificial intelligence: how humanitarian actors are adapting

Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert

The value of testimony in the age of artificial intelligence

Amal Abou El Ghayt-Huart

Between “tacit” and “explicit” knowledge: humanitarian communication in search of a third way

Tom Ansell

Figures as emotional triggers: data issues in humanitarian communication and advocacy

Émilie Poisson

Communicating, witnessing, resisting: the public voice of Médecins Sans Frontières in the face of disinformation

Andrea Bussotti - Agnès Varraine-Leca - Anaïs Deprade

The crucial role of humanitarian communication in the fake news and “infoglut” era

Lubiana Gosp-Server

Information issues in contemporary humanitarian communication

Dana Popescu-Jourdy - Valérie Gorin

Climate-humanitarian crisis in the Russia-Ukraine war: double vulnerabilities overlooked by the humanitarian response

Andrii Bahinskyi - Nina Potarska

Forced displacement, human pressure and local resilience in Cameroon

Joël Moudio - Vincent Habaga

“Do Less, Do More”, or the incompatible expectations of the humanitarian response: reducing carbon and scaling up

Michiel Hofman - Angela Uyen

French humanitarian organisations factoring in climate change: what do their dedicated management tools tell us?

Vincent Pradier