Learning from Covid-19: the inextricable link between health and housing
If there is a health requirement as much as a cause of inequality that the pandemic has cruelly brought to light, it is that relating to housing. For the author,...
Anticipating uncertainty, preparing for the unknown: humanitarian actors in the face of issues linked to climate change
This first article provides an overview of the issues facing humanitarian workers and points out the ambiguities that persist. Insufficient and non-binding normative frameworks do not prevent actors who, themselves,...
For the climate, end the distinction between humanitarian aid and development aid
Can the consequences of climate change on vulnerable populations contribute to rethinking the structure of aid ? Drawing on the example of Bangladesh and an innovative partnership with Luxembourg development cooperation,...
Sub-Saharan Africa: worrying clouds on the horizon
Having long been condemned to pessimism, Africa has unquestionably picked itself up, confronting considerable challenges – such as the recent Ebola crisis –, displaying encouraging economic growth and exporting its numerous talents....
Sheltering, hosting or receiving refugees: the unresolved ambiguities of the La Linière refugee camp
Frank Esnée and Michaël Neuman invite us here to follow up on previous work. The latter and Angélique Muller already wrote an article about the social and political actors of...
New technologies put to the test of humanitarian ethics
Danielle Tan and Pierre Gallien are members of the editorial board and co-editors of this issue’s Focus Innovation is not a new phenomenon for leading actors of international solidarity. A...
The ethics of care versus humanitarian exceptionalism
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...
“1919 was ‘year zero’ for internationalism” – Interview with Jeremy Adelman
In October 2018, the workshop “Humanitarian Photojournalism: A History of the Present” was organised at Princeton University. The main goal of this event was to think about “the connections between the...
Squaring the circle
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...
Regaining a sense of the humanitarian imperative
You have to wake people up; to revolutionize their way of identifying things. You’ve got to create images they won’t accept; oblige them to express their outrage; force them to...
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...
Should the “new young humanitarians” hack the system?
Even though it does not have the weight of a full investigation, let alone a sociological study, the survey conducted by Amélia Houmaï-Romy and Vincent Taillandier nonetheless provides much food...