Is Humanitarian Aid Politicized?
Humanitarian aid is a political act. Yet, beyond politics and policies, humanitarian aid struggles to reflect the principles and practices underpinning good governance.
Interview – Juliet Sorensen
Juliet Sorensen discusses the ‘opioid epidemic’, explains the limitations that international law has in tackling the problem, and argues for criminal justice reform,
Protecting People
The world is more likely to respond to human protection crises today than it once was, but as Syria shows we are nowhere close to solving the problem of human insecurity.
Interview – Gilles Carbonnier
Gilles Carbonnier outlines his approach to humanitarian economics, reflects on recent changes in the humanitarian sector, and encourages interdisciplinary collaboration.
Interview – Daniela DeBono
Daniela DeBono discusses her approach to the migration-human rights nexus, explains a cultural approach to human rights, and urges young scholars to question assumptions.
Foreign Aid and Development Outcomes: Is the U.S. Lagging Behind?
Improving safeguards and accountability will allow people to have a voice and a choice in their own development. That is something the US should be proud to champion.
Disrupting the ‘Conditional Selfhood’ of Threat Construction
It is essential to interrogate how representations of the homegrown threat in security practice may instead be influencing insecurity.
Teaching International Organizations as Bureaucracies
It can only be a good thing if students learn about the power inherent in definitions, and can reflect on the normative problems arising from these definitions.
Back to Basics: Humanitarian Action and Accountability to Affected Populations
Getting to know the crisis-affected communities better may help to remember that they are the very raison d’être for the humanitarian action.
The European Response to the Syrian War: Pathologies Uncovered
The EU must effectively address its migration pathologies and dysfunctionalities to fulfil its humanitarian promise to be a space of freedom, prosperity and rule of law
