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While his appointment as UN Secretary-General was a huge breakthrough, Kofi Annan also led the organisation through some of its ugliest moments.
The Caribbean braces for another hurricane season even as many nations remain crippled by the catastrophic damage of 2017. Here, experts assess the region’s difficult and costly storm recovery.
Australia faces many security issues driven by climate change, including more international migration and an increase in defence personnel being sent on disaster relief missions, a Senate inquiry has found.
One hundred and forty thousand people died when a major hurricane hit Myanmar in 2008. Would the country be better prepared today?
AI seems able to answer questions at the heart of humanitarianism – questions such as who we should save, and how to be effective at scale.
Poor countries aren’t receiving the most foreign aid. Why? And what should be done?
Compared to its foreign disaster missions, the US military mobilized slowly after Maria. But in numbers, capacity and logistics coordination, its work in Puerto Rico was on par with other aid efforts.
Survival sex – the exchange of sexual favours for aid packets – happens in refugee camps everywhere. Victims are not protected by international human rights law.
We don’t care, or possibly dare, to look back five or ten years later to see what happened to international aid projects.
Refugee policy may well be a humanitarian issue. But it is also a development issue.
Most overseas aid workers remain largely cut off from the people they are in emergency settings to help.
With a single cut in donations to a UN agency, Donald Trump has abandoned another norm of US foreign policy. The consequences could be disastrous.
From California’s fires to the Rohingya, headlines can be overwhelming these days. But that doesn’t mean we should neglect so-called ‘silent crises,’ which can quickly erupt into global disasters.
A huge majority of humanitarian employees are local to the country of intervention, but their motivations and pressures are often misunderstood.
If humanitarian need can’t move the Trump administration to save Puerto Rico, then perhaps American self-interest will: The island is a crucial part of the country’s economic and military machinery.
A brigade of migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala have interrupted their trek north to stay in Mexico and support earthquake recovery efforts.
Are harsher measures to squeeze North Korea’s population worth it? Everything we know about sanctions says probably not.
Religious values, deeply rooted in texts, serve as an important motivator for giving. Religious Americans volunteer more, give more, and give more often.
China’s presence in Africa continues to grow with its first military base in Djibouti. It wants to be a friend to Africa positioning itself as a global power while looking after its own interests.
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Deputy Director of the HUMLOG (Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management Research) Institute, Hanken School of Economics
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Lecturer in Operations Management, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, UCL
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Professor of Public Health and Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
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Business School Associate Director, Edge Hill University
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PhD Researcher, Development Studies, University of Sussex
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Associate Rrofessor of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University
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Director, Program on Resilient Communities, Harvard University
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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Liverpool John Moores University
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Associate Research Professor of International Relations, Tufts University
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Professor Emeritus in Global Health & Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester
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Professor, Université de Lubumbashi
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Professor, Durham Law School, Durham University
