2024 Honorary Award for her research on understanding humanitarian policies in conflict situations
Fiona Terry heads the ICRC’s Centre for Operational Research and Experience (the CORE), which was created in the wake of the landmark Roots of Restraint in War study of which Dr Terry was co-author. She has three decades of experience in humanitarian operations around the world including Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Liberia, Sudan, Myanmar, Nepal and Afghanistan, principally with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). She holds a Ph.D. in international relations and political science from the Australian National University and is the author of Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action (Cornell University Press, 2002), which won the 2006 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
The Foundation wished to honor her for her lifelong dedication to scientific research on humanitarian action in conflict situations and for her commitment to sharing knowledge within the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
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The Research Prizes of the French Red Cross Foundation, awarded with the support of the Red Cross of Andorra, aim to highlight scientific work already completed or innovative lines of thought devoted to humanitarian and social issues, both in the North and in the South. Open to all disciplines in the human and social sciences and to all nationalities, they reward scientific excellence and human commitment, and promote scientific knowledge, ethical reflection and social innovation to encourage action in favour of the most vulnerable.
In 2024, the awards were presented with the support of the Andorran Red Cross.