Humanitarian Alternatives – n21

N°21 - November 2022 :   « India: counter-model, alternative or future partner? »  (provisional title) A Focus co-directed by Pierre Micheletti, Chairman of Action Against Hunger – France, doctor, essayist and writer with Boris Martin, editor-in-chief of Humanitarian Alternatives Together with the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement and specialised United Nations (UN) organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from...

Humanitarian Alternatives – n19

The place of the child in humanitarian action and communication: moving away from the cliché of the childhood icon A Focus codirected by Valérie Gorin, teaching fellow and researcher at the Centre of Humanitarian Studies, Geneva (University of Geneva and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), and Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief of Humanitarian Alternatives   On 23...

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The cause of migrants under threat from the rise of nationalism: which directions for international solidarity organisations? A Focus co-directed by Clara Egger, Assistant professor at the University of Groningen and director of studies of the EMJMD Master in International Humanitarian Action, and Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief of Humanitarian Alternatives The end of the Second World War gave rise...

Humanitarian Transition
in Cameroon

A publication codirected by Virginie Troit (Director of the French Red Cross Foundation) and Marie-Thérèse Mengue (Professor, Head of the Socio-Anthropology Department, UCAC Yaoundé)   Collection Devenir Humanitaire – 5th Volume - Editions Karthala Alongside structural development challenges, Cameroon has also had to contend with several recent humanitarian crises which have further jeopardised the futures...

Humanitarian Transition
in Lebanon

Transition humanitaire et réflexions éthiques au Liban Publication codirigée par Virginie Troit et Marie-Noëlle AbiYaghi Collection Devenir Humanitaire – Tome IV - Editions Karthala Au cœur d’un contexte régional conflictuel et fragilisé par un équilibre interne instable depuis la fin de la guerre civile en 1990, le Liban est confronté à d’importants besoins humanitaires, notamment...

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Statement of issues for the “Focus” theme A focus theme co-led by: Christophe Buffet, Expert Climat/Adaptation à l’Agence française de développement In 2009, on the eve of the COP15 conference in Copenhagen, Christophe Buffet already asked whether the humanitarian community was ready to tackle the issue of climate change (Christophe Buffet, Humanitaire, n°23, December 2009, http://journals.openedition.org/humanitaire/598). What is the...