Articles and op-eds

A Decade of Compounding Crises
From the needs to the responses, we get a clearer picture of how the humanitarian assistance sector has changed over the past decade by taking a close look at the numbers.

Running in Place: Security risk management in humanitarian operations – Global Interagency Security Forum
Humanitarian aid workers are more likely to die from violence than any other job-related cause. Last year was especially brutal, with upwards of 260 aid workers killed – more than double the average of the prior three years. Beginning in the late 1990s, aid organisations have been awake to the serious security risks inherent in […]

“We have already spent everything we had in our own wallets”: How international aid is failing Ukrainian responders – and what to do about it
Over 100 days have passed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine sparked a massive humanitarian crisis along with an outpouring of international generosity in the form of aid contributions. So why are international organisations still sitting on millions they cannot spend while local volunteer groups in Ukraine are reaching their limits, emotionally burned out, and running out of cash and equipment?

BOOK REVIEW: How to Resuscitate an Ailing Norm
Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 125-127 | PDF Abby Stoddard Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War, by Leonard Rubenstein (Columbia University Press, 2021) In the mid-19th century, a brief and…

Mosul: Lives saved, credibility lost?

The New Humanitarian

Out of Reach: How insecurity prevents humanitarian aid from reaching the neediest

Stability: International Journal of Security & Development

The View from the Foxhole: How Risk and the Fragmented Perspective of Agencies Limits the Reach of Humanitarian Aid

ATHA

A Practical Response to MSF’s Report Where is Everyone?

The Guardian

Why Aid Workers are Targets

The Globalist

You Say You Want a Devolution: Prospects for Remodeling Humanitarian Assistance

The Journal of Humanitarian Assistance

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