Off the cuff
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31 August 2010 Feeding malnourished children: not so simple!
Bradol, Jean-Hervé
Using Niger as an example, this text seeks to explore the dilemmas involved in medical responses to child malnutrition when such malnutrition is endemic (strong, permanent presence) and gives rise to seasonal peaks (epidemics) each year. It is this form of malnutrition that continues to have a major impact on mortality in nearly 40 countries...
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30 July 2010 Has liberal universalism run its course?
Neuman, Michael
The debate over humanitarian intervention is keeping the northeastern US's left wing intelligentsia in a continual stir, torn between its opposition to imperialism and its devotion to human rights. Progressive interventionists aren't at all pleased with the regular reminders by their opponents that, objectively, their position is not all that different from that of the neoconservatives...Comment -
17 June 2010 R2P and the use of violence for humanitarian ends
Weissman, Fabrice
Should military forces be dispatched to a foreign country to save its population from massacre, famine, epidemics, or oppression? Debated in the 1990s as the "right or duty to intervene", the application of military might to rescue populations in danger is today debated as the "responsibility to protect"...Comment
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The Centre de réflexion sur l'action et les savoirs humanitaires was created by Médecins sans Frontières in 1999. Its objective is to encourage debate and critical reflexion on the humanitarian practices of the association, in order to improve its actions.
The CRASH carries out in-depth studies and analysis of MSF's activities. The work is based on the framework and experience of the association. In no way, however, do these texts lay down the 'MSF party line', nor do they seek to defend the idea of 'true humanitarianism'. On the contrary, the objective is to contribute to debate on the challenges, constraints and limits -as well as the subsequent dilemmas - of humanitarian action
