Understanding the history, dynamics and workings of epidemics
Where do epidemics come from, how do they spread, and how do they behave? To answer these questions, and to introduce this issue’s theme, it was first deemed necessary to...
The impact of Covid-19 on African civil society organisations
Even though Africa has been relatively spared from the pandemic in terms of both infection and mortality rates, it is a different story for the continent’s organisations. The author draws...
Learning the hard way: how the Ebola virus experience can help Guinea deal with Covid-19
Resilience can emerge from fragility. This is what Stéphanie Maltais observed from her research conducted in the aftermath of the Ebola crisis in Guinea between 2013 and 2016. Lessons that...
What the Covid-19 crisis tells us about our ability to learn
The ability to learn from previous crises and adapt those lessons to any new context is one of the keys to disaster management, including health disasters. François Grünewald’s article seeks...
The central role of community health in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic: the experience of Médecins du Monde Canada
Might a community approach be one of the solutions for social distancing, the scope of which has been revealed by the current pandemic? This is the argument put forward by...
Tough choices: moral challenges experienced by aid workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
The truly unprecedented nature of the Covid-19 pandemic has mobilised and confused humanitarian NGOs and their staff as much. Forced inaction mixed with setting up programmes within a context of...
Responding to Covid-19 in conflicts: difficult but necessary
In this article, Michiel Hofman reflects on the difficulty of implementing a health response in war zones especially in a context where States are mistrusted, where non-state armed groups call...
A test of dignity: an anthropological analysis of Covid-19 responses in West Africa
The three authors of this article conducted an anthropological analysis of the Covid-19 pandemic as seen from and experienced in Africa, shedding valuable insight into how this pandemic has been...
The Covid-19 pandemic: a double burden in humanitarian crises
From refugee camps in Kenya or Jordan to countries in conflict such as Yemen or Syria, the expertise of humanitarian actors is key to limiting the spread of the pandemic...
An unhealthy combination: War, Covid-19 and the politics of metaphor
At a time when multilateralism is collapsing and populism rising, Norah Niland highlights the new fragilities that Covid-19 has revealed in local and international systems of governance. If the pandemic...
Video – Interview with Khaled Mansour – Senior Fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative
<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> Published on May 11, 2020 COVID-19 Special // Khaled Mansour is a senior fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative....
Localisation of aid through the lens of Covid-19: a matter of choice, or a last resort?
Vanuatu is one of the countries most exposed to natural hazards and one of the few in the world that has not recorded any case of Covid-19. Having closed its...