Published on 28 November 2025 This roundtable discussion, that was held on 24 October 2024, has been conducted as part of a research project looking into ethical dilemmas in humanitarian...
Putting an ethical dilemma into a narrative and analysing it. This is the exercise that the author skilfully undertakes in this article, which uses a real-life situation to explain the...
For a number of years, the humanitarian ecosystem has been undergoing changes. One of the reasons for the existence of our review is to accompany this transition and open it...
What if we say that humanitarian workers themselves arouse the hostility they sometimes face because of the symbolic and socially dominant relationships they maintain with their local personnel? This is...
Everybody has heard of the concept of squaring the circle, unsolved since ancient times, referring to the mathematical challenge of constructing a square with the same area as a given...
Continuing the theme developed by Jean-François Mattei and Pierre Le Coz in the last two issues of our review, Virginie Troit attempts here to clear the way for ethics in...
The myth of humanitarian action supported by data and scientific evidence has had its day – or so argues the author here, drawing on the history of Sphere, the most...
From the morals of the action that presided over humanitarian impulse to the ethical deliberation that provides a framework for the moral dilemmas it increasingly gives rise to, there is...
In the last ten years, the Humanitarian Coalition in Canada has been changing some of the rules governing the humanitarian response of Canadian NGOs. Leading NGOs that it regroups have...
In 1968, French doctors decided to travel to Biafra to help the Igbo people. Later, they supported migrants in the South China Sea and elsewhere. Now, working alongside NGOs, ordinary...
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