Fuel to the flames: what if humanitarian action prolongs a conflict (Part 1)
The first and foremost goal of humanitarian aid is to save lives. But what if humanitarian action unintentionally lengthens the duration or becomes part of a conflict? During this edition of Humanitar...
10 Huhti 201945min
Humanitarian Ethics
An appealing, thoughtful and compact introduction into humanitarian ethics by Hugo Slim based on a Master Class organized by KUNO (the Platform for Humanitarian Knowledge Exchange in the Netherlands),...
4 Helmi 201929min
John Dalhuisen (Part 1) - Migration: Idealism versus pragmatism
According to John Dalhuisen, Senior Fellow at European Stability Initiative and former director of Amnesty International’s Europe and Central Asia Programme, humanitarian organizations should compromi...
30 Tammi 201934min
John Dalhuisen (Part 2) - Migration: Idealism versus pragmatism
According to John Dalhuisen, Senior Fellow at European Stability Initiative and former director of Amnesty International, humanitarian organizations should compromise on their ethical and moral standa...
30 Tammi 201927min
Ombuds for Humanitarian and Development Aid
Presentation of the Scoping Study to an International Ombuds for Humanitarian and Development Aid, November 21, 2018 (The Hague). This Ombuds could be a way of preventing (sexual) abuse by humanitari...
30 Marras 20181h 22min
Mass Starvation, an introduction by prof. Alex de Waal
In February 2018, prof. Alex de Waal presented his new book “Mass Starvation” that provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. He analyses starvat...
25 Kesä 201833min
Yemen: the voice of local NGOs
Three years of conflict and lawlessness in Yemen brought the Yemeni hunger, diphtheria and cholera. Nearly three of four Yemenis rely on humanitarian aid to survive. The dire situation is deterioratin...
25 Kesä 201816min
Rohingya response: another Goma in the making?!
At the request of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), the UK-based platform for mobilising funding at times of major international humanitarian crises, Ed Schenkenberg of HERE-Geneva visited Bang...
25 Kesä 201846min
