MSF face aux dilemmes des enlèvements
Le 31 janvier s’est tenu à Sciences Po un colloque en soutien à Fariba Adelkhah et Roland Marchal, tous les deux chercheurs au Centre de recherches internationales de Sciences Po (CERI), arrêtés en Iran le 5 juin 2019. Roland Marchal a été libéré le 20 mars 2020 en échange de la libération d’un ingénieur iranien détenu en France. Fariba Adelkhah a été condamnée le 6 mai 2020 à 6 ans de réclusion pour « propagande contre le système politique de la République islamique et collusion en vue d’attenter à la sûreté nationale ». La chercheuse a refusé une libération conditionnelle contre l'arrêt de ses recherches.
Le colloque du 31 janvier a réuni diplomates, journalistes, humanitaires et chercheurs, dans le but de « nourrir la réflexion sur les prisonniers et les otages, d’un point de vue politique, juridique et éthique ». Fabrice Weissman y présentait l’expérience de Médecins Sans Frontières face aux enlèvements.
From bureaucratic inertia to “policy fragility”
Interview by Helai Hosseini. A first version was published on the website of the MSF France association on 31 July 2020.
In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, voices have risen within MSF denouncing the racist and discriminatory nature of our organization. Equal opportunity, they say, is not offered to all our employees. Founded in France in the early 70s by a handful of doctors and journalists, the organization has grown and become international, now employing over 46,000 people around the world, nearly 39,000 of whom are recruited locally. How has MSF’s policy towards its personnel evolved down the years? What is currently being done to fight inequalities? Here is Jean Hervé Bradol’s take on the major phases that have marked MSF’s transformation and the ways in which discussions are engaged today.
Covid-19: reactions of sociologists in lockdown
In France, from March onwards, many sociologists regularly appear in the media. Based on this observation, Marc Le Pape analysed 37 articles written during the containment period, dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Management at MSF - Part 2
In our first interview, Marion Péchayre discussed a variety of management-related problems at Médecins Sans Frontières: working in silos, the ever-growing number of management tools for monitoring, the endless validation requests, the vanishing role of the individual in favour of pseudoscientific presentations of events and projects, etc. This interview, conducted by Elba Rahmouni, focuses on solutions to these problems and hypotheses on how to improve our ways of working. Rather than offering set recipes, Marion Péchayre advocates an approach based on “practical wisdom” (a concept from the sociology of professions) and deliberative management that every individual and team can apply in their own way.
Representations of HIV and impact on care seeking among the men of Homa Bay, Kenya
This study, conducted among the men of Homa Bay in Nyanza Province, Kenya, assesses the representations of HIV and impact on care seeking. It reveals that simply setting up a testing or care campaign does not necessarily mean that the entire population will participate; the message has to be tailored to the target population and fine-tuned even within that population.
An epidemiologist’s analysis of the Covid-19 crisis - Part 2
Crisis situation, response strategies, hydroxychloroquine, interventional epidemiology and the state of scientific research in Africa: Elba Rahmouni interviews Emmanuel Baron, Director of Epicentre, Médecins Sans Frontières
