Refugee policy may well be a humanitarian issue. But it is also a development issue.
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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.
The world has turned its back on the Nuba people of Sudan. Despite the critical need for food, none of the organisations involved in helping people in dire need have attempted to deliver aid to them.
Who is responsible for this problem? Research indicates that it’s often the victims’ own colleagues, and that aid agencies don’t do enough to stop it.
Already one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian disasters, the situation in Yemen is only getting worse.
Rules imposed after 9/11 and still on the books are getting in the way of delivering aid to conflict zones. In countries like Yemen and Syria, it could mean the difference between life and death.
The western media’s focus on events at home like the US elections and the UK Brexit referendum has come at the expense of reporting on the famine that’s unfolding in Africa.
By not acknowledging what Haitians themselves think they need, the UN is failing to sort out one of its worst ever blunders.
Will recent photos of chemical attack victims in Syria provoke a short-term emotional reaction or a sustained humanitarian campaign?
As President Trump puts U.S. foreign aid on the chopping block, few Americans know much about it. Perhaps even fewer realize that the U.S. lags behind its peers on this front.
One of the worst humanitarian disasters in decades is well underway in East Africa.
The humanitarian crisis in the Middle East is getting worse by the day. A survey of aid workers provides a glimpse into life on the ground, and clues to why the humanitarian sector is ailing.
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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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Professor of Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis
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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Liverpool John Moores University
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Business School Associate Director, Edge Hill University
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Research Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
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Professor, Université de Lubumbashi
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Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, UCL
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Associate Research Professor of International Relations, Tufts University
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Director, Program on Resilient Communities, Harvard University
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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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PhD Researcher, Development Studies, University of Sussex
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Professor Emeritus in Global Health & Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester