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Digital Livelihoods Undone: Digital Skills Training and the Systematic Exclusion of Refugees in Lebanon

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2023
A decade into the Syrian war, Lebanon remains the country hosting the largest number of refugees per capita worldwide, limiting their work to three sectors of the economy.
Rabih Shibli, Sarah Kouzi
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Financial Inclusion or Encampment? Rethinking Digital Finance for Refugees

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2023
Humanitarian actors touting financial inclusion posit that access to financial services builds refugees’ resilience and self-reliance. They claim that new digital financial tools create more efficient and dignified pathways for humanitarian assistance ...
Swati Mehta Dhawan, Julie Zollmann
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Unravelling Humanitarian Narratives: Gender Norm Change during Displacement?

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2022
International humanitarian actors, such as non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and United Nations agencies, often focus on gender norm change when conducting gender analysis among refugees and internally displaced persons.
Michelle Lokot
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Book Review Forum: Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2022
This forum brings together a diverse group of scholars from political geography, international relations, critical organisation studies, global development, international studies and political sociology to explore the debates and dynamics of celebrity ...
Alexandra Cosima Budabin, Lisa Ann Richey   +1 more
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Administrating Displaced People in Colombia through Humanitarian Government: Resilience and the Language of Compassion

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2022
Internal forced displacement is a current social problem in Colombia. Although this phenomenon has been studied extensively, the purpose of this article is to analyse the administration of this crisis under the grille interprétative of humanitarian ...
Diego I. Meza
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Powerful Men, Failing Upwards: The Aid Industry and the ‘Me Too’ Movement

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2021
In 2018, the global #MeToo movement turned its attention to the aid industry, after scandals at Oxfam and Save the Children highlighted the sexual harassment, abuse and assault prevalent in the sector.
Charlotte Lydia Riley
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Neoliberal Turns in Global Humanitarian Governance: Corporations, Celebrities and the Construction of the Entrepreneurial Refugee Woman

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2021
In this article we seek to extend recent debates on how the promotion of self-reliance through vocational training and entrepreneurship has become the new neoliberal mantra among refugee-supporting agencies, policymakers and humanitarian actors.
Annika Bergman Rosamond, Catia Gregoratti   +1 more
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The Politics of the Second Vaccine: Debates Surrounding Ebola Vaccine Trials in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2021
Two experimental Ebola vaccines were deployed during the tenth Ebola epidemic (2018–20) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The first, the Ervebo vaccine manufactured by Merck, was used as part of a ring vaccination in the epicentre of the ...
Myfanwy James, Joseph Grace Kasereka, Shelley Lees   +2 more
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Visual Media and Development Education in Canadian Schools: 1980–2000

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2021
For two decades, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) prepared pedagogical materials for Canadian schools. This article reviews the role of visual media in the hundreds of publications prepared for Development Education. Samples collected
Dominique Marshall
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Red Cross Museums as Media of Historical Communication: An Interview with Rainer Schlösser, Spokesperson of the Association of the Red Cross Museums in Germany (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der deutschen Rotkreuz-Museen)

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2021
An accomplished academic, collector, and long-time Red Cross volunteer, Professor Dr Rainer Schlösser is head of the Red Cross Museum of the Red Cross Chapter Fläming-Spreewald in Luckenwalde. He has directed the museum since 2000.
Sönke Kunkel
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