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the whole first floor available for our exhibits. The centerpiece of our museum is the permanent exhibit which documents the history of the German Red Cross movement through the times, largely by situating it in the context of its international connections. We also do contemporary exhibits each year, usually framed around specific anniversaries. In 2019, for example, we had an exhibit commemorating the centenary of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Other exhibits have focused on the history of Red Cross posters or the Geneva
different and revolve more around how to organise effective coordination than around trade-offs in engaging with armed actors in an active conflict zone ( Bollettino and Anders, 2018 ). Humanitarian organisations have to balance potential benefits from working with militaries (e.g. access to hard to reach locations, protection for staff and assets) with potential risks (such as risks to reputation and access if they are seen to associate themselves with an armed actor, particularly if the military is also involved in the conflict). Effective engagement between
humanitarian communication, and you get a different picture: here, history is everywhere. No website of any major humanitarian organization comes along without its own history section. On YouTube, humanitarian players provide an ever growing number of documentaries about their past and origins. Fundraising campaigns, mass mailings, and social media posts all point frequently to historical achievements. Major aid organizations now also call on their branches to ‘enhance the historical and cultural
, and how? Remotely or on site? At the very least, we had to decipher the diverging political and military agendas, and then adapt, persist or sometimes just give up. In this article, I will present the full range of methods used to acquire knowledge and obtain information as well as the various networks used to carry out this venture. I will also show how Médecins Sans Frontières’ operations became a balancing act, punctuated by episodes of adapting to the various
may in part have also evolved from religious missions. Medical teams when doing global health can still talk about a ‘medical mission’. I think it’s the view that you are doing good above all else; you are delivering charity, that may have driven this separation from daily medical practice; that there is a separate space where people suffer and people in that space should be grateful for what they get – harsh, perhaps, but I think it has been a factor. People perhaps
, suggests that the promotion of self-reliance through vocational training and entrepreneurship programmes has become the new neoliberal mantra also among refugee-supporting agencies, policymakers and different humanitarian actors ( Easton-Calabria and Omata, 2018 ; Turner, 2019 ; Richey and Brockington, 2020 ). Yet, little attention has been devoted to exploring how the discourse of entrepreneurship is mobilised for the presumed benefit of refugee women in the realm of humanitarian governance, here
of bureaucracy but also the agency of refugees to function within, and potentially manipulate, this system. In doing so, it brings the critical literature on counting refugees ( Harrell-Bond et al. , 1992 ; Malkki, 1996 ; Crisp, 1999 ; Harrell-Bond, 2002 ) into the twenty-first century. Such a piece of research emphasises the importance of adopting an ethnographical or observational approach to processes of quantification. It places the discussions about concepts
the most substantial dimensions to cope with, recover from and adapt to the impacts of disasters. The wealth dimension encompasses indicators such as food consumption and financial assistance which are necessary to build resilience in local communities. Similarly, the DRLA and UEH (2012) also highlight psychosocial status as a dimension of resilience as the psychological condition and well-being of household members is often adversely affected in the short term and potentially long term depending, in part, upon the effectiveness of the household’s ties. Wealth
migrants there. For most migrants rescued in the Central Mediterranean, the port closest to the point of rescue lies in Libya or Tunisia. However, when Libya offered to let the Sea-Watch 3 disembark its passengers at a Libyan port, the German ship’s captain Carola Rackete rejected that option with the argument that migrants are exposed to torture, rape, forced labour and extortion in Libya. 7 She also rejected suggestions that she head to Tunisia, because that country has no refugee determination process and, in any case, it had by then also closed its ports to
Introduction In 2014, a campaign group posted a video on YouTube called ‘Syrian hero boy’. The clip showed a young boy dramatically running through gunfire to save a girl, and it quickly went viral. The video was viewed more than five million times and republished on the websites of mainstream news outlets around the world, including the Daily Telegraph, Independent , Daily Mail and New York Post . It was also shared by the organisation Syria Campaign, which attached a petition calling on world leaders to stop the conflict