Ukraine-Gaza: the disappearance of strategy
Are these two existential wars causing their participants to take leave of their senses to such an extent that they have forgotten strategy and so are now just indulging in...
Central America: between insecurity and population displacement, what roles can humanitarian organisations play?
This latest issue of Humanitarian Alternatives focuses on the multiple humanitarian concerns Central America is grappling with. Often regarded as a transit region, Central America is undergoing major demographic change...
India through Western eyes: a different way of managing humanitarian aid?
The rise of sovereignty does not spare humanitarian aid. A prime example of this trend, India rejects foreign interventionism on its territory while making humanitarian aid a component of its...
The cause of migrants at threat from the rise of nationalisms: what path for international solidarity organisations?
Co-editor of this issue’s Focus with Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief
The never-ending story
Joint editor with Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief, of this issue under a partnership between Humanitarian Alternatives and the International Humanitarian Studies Association We have not seen the end of the Covid-19 pandemic....
The impact of generational change on humanitarian aid
Sophie Zaccaria est copilote du Focus de ce numéro, avec la participation de Pierre Gallien, directeur Impact, Information et Innovation à Humanité & Inclusion
The geopolitics of homophobia
Homophobia, understood as discrimination of all kinds against LGBT people (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender), is still too widely used for internal policy purposes, when it is not part of...
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...
Syria: will diplomacy put an end to the massacre?
Sami Aoun engages here in a difficult exercise of geopolitical forecasting. First of all because in Syria, even more than in other contexts, facts speed up and multiple, sometimes secret,...
Humanitarian action beyond the French doctors
To inaugurate this section “Perspectives” Eleanor Davey invites us to reread the history of the “French doctors” while going beyond the foundational “moment” of Biafra. This look offered by an...