Mental health: a necessary global approach
Since the mid-1990s, mental health has been recognised as a crucial aspect of human suffering in humanitarian crises. Many organisations have built expertise specific to acute crisis situations based on...
Global mental health in a time of change
It is a difficult exercise in summary writing that Davide Ziveri undertakes here. Looking at the six articles in this issue, he attempts to put them into perspective in the...
How the Global North is solving its health worker shortage while exacerbating the Global South’s
It is an issue spanning ethics, professional conduct and social justice that Nago Humbert, a specialist in medical psychology and paediatric palliative care and head of the humanitarian think tank...
Humanitarian aid and the challenge of gender-based and sexual violence
& Boris Martin • Editor-in-Chief In early 2018, several employees of a British non-governmental organisation (NGO) were accused of sexual abuse in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. What would become...
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....
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...
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...
How to take care of humankind at +2°C?
On 15 and 16 April 2019, on the 100th anniversary of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the French Red Cross held a conference entitled “Health and...
Health multilateralism in the Biden era: it is a change for the better, but is it a change for good?
About six months have passed since the Biden Administration took the reins of government in the United States on 20 January 2021. It seems like a good time to take...
Snakebites in Africa: a humanitarian and political fight
This is an innovation probably ignored by the public at large and maybe even by some of the humanitarian actors. With 100,000 mortal bites per year, poisoning by snakes is...