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30 January 2012 Negotiating Humanitarian Access: How Far to Compromise to Deliver Aid
Neuman, Michael
On January 26, the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hosted a discussion on the compromises and negotiations the humanitarian aid community must contend with during crisis situations. Michael Neuman, research director with the Centre de Réflexion sur l'Action et les Savoirs Humanitaries at MSF, discussed the organization's new book, Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience (Columbia University Press, 2012)...
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15 December 2011 Humanitarian Negotiations revealed: the MSF experience
Magone, Claire; Neuman, Michael; Weissman, Fabrice
From international NGOs to UN agencies, from donors to observers of humanitarianism, opinion is unanimous: in a context of the alleged ‘clash of civilisations', our ‘humanitarian space' is shrinking. Put another way, the freedom of action and of speech of humanitarians is being eroded due to the radicalisation of conflicts and the reaffirmation of state sovereignty over aid actors and policies...Comment -
22 September 2011 If you have to starve to death, better to do it in a war-torn country
Bradol, Jean-Hervé
For the past several months, news about food shortages and famines affecting large segments of the East African population have been fueling donation appeals from major public and private aid organizations. Low rainfall and - in Somalia's case - recent stirrings in the 20-year-old civil war explain how a bad situation has suddenly become catastrophic...Comment
WELCOME
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
