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Ethics

Ethics

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Culture is a lens that helps us understand not just how we act, but how we perceive one another

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...

Ashley Jackson - Andrew Cunningham - Ayse Bala Akal - Kristina Roepstorff - Kristoffer Lidèn - Nigel Timmins - Paul Harvey - Sulagna Maitra

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Les chiffres comme déclencheurs de l’émotion : enjeux des données dans la communication et le plaidoyer humanitaires

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

Sometimes, “killer facts” rival shock photos in humanitarian communica­tions. These hard-hitting statistics are certainly intended to mobilise public opinion, but their increasing politicisa­tion calls into question their credibil­ity. How can...

Émilie Poisson

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La valeur du témoignage à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle

The value of testimony in the age of artificial intelligence

AI is undoubtedly revolutionising con­tent creation, while also calling into question the authenticity of humani­tarian testimonies. Between productiv­ity gains and the risk of manipulation, organisations are having to redefine their...

Amal Abou El Ghayt-Huart

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Confiance, authenticité et représentation de la souffrance au temps des images produites par l’intelligence artificielle : comment les acteurs humanitaires s’adaptent

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

How can we maintain trust in humani­tarian images in the age of AI? Between new ethical standards and image gen­eration tools, organisations are navi­gating a transformed visual landscape. Faced with...

Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert

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Intelligences artificielles génératives et représentations humanitaires : miroir ou solution ?

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...

Valérie Gorin

Ethics

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Listening and responding to the ethical preoccupations of humanitarian professionals

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...

Anne-Lise Lierville

Ethics

care

Humanitarian aid from the perspective of care

When philosophy turns its attention to humanitarian action, it can help its actors reflect not only on the foundations of their intervention, but also on how to improve its implementation....

Sofía Durán Cárdenas

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india syndrome syndrome de l'inde

Are humanitarian workers immune to “India syndrome”?

The author takes an in-depth approach, bringing readers close to the daily reality, so that we might better understand the difficulties an NGO may encounter when setting up in India....

Océane Plockyn

Ethics

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Ethical considerations around the use of humanitarian imagery

The growth of social media has reduced the world to a “global village” in which images travel fast and far. When they feature vulnerable people, the impact can be disastrous....

Françoise Duroch - Maelle L’Homme

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The double bind facing civil society organisations: the Swiss example

What is happening in Switzerland, the birthplace of the International Committee of the Red Cross and a stronghold of international organisations and non-governmental organisations alike? The author calls our attention...

Vivianne Châtel

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Humanitarian discourse and the challenges of migration: the European exception?

Are non-governmental organisations also guilty of double standards? Reviewing humanitarian actors’ approaches to migration in Europe, the author analyses the demands, intentions and dilemmas that drive them.

Maelle L’Homme

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action humanitaire et recherche. santé mentale research transdisciplinary sciences anticipatory action transdisciplinaires actions anticipatoires eau, assainissement, hygiène clinical sociology psychosocial

The contributions of clinical sociology research to the socio-humanitarian sector

In this article, the author invites us into her engaged and reflective personal journey as a researcher. When she began to measure the limits that she believes thwart the methods...

Maritza Perdreros

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