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Negotiating the ‘Magna Carta of humanitarian action’: Interview with Jan Eliasson
The cornerstone of formal humanitarian reform in the 1990s was a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly known as 46/182. Frequently referred to in…
Ecocide: Exploring the Roots and Current Applications of the Concept
On September 9, 2024, the small Pacific Island country of Vanuatu, joined by Fiji and Samoa, formally submitted a request to the International Criminal Court…
Race, Humanitarianism and the South African Red Cross Incident 1986-7
Humanitarians aim to provide aid to refugees, combatants, political prisoners and victims of natural disasters, regardless of their political affinities and nationality, race and ethnicity.…
The Peasant’s Arrested Revolution
The 1970s marked a turning point in the history of the peasantry of the Sahel, the arid and semi-arid band immediately south of the Sahara…
Western Humanitarianism: Saving Lives or Regulating Death?
With reference to Sudan Western humanitarianism has, to be sure, a long history. Used here, however, the term is a container for a new and…
Non-Aligned approaches to humanitarianism? Yugoslav interventions in the international Red Cross movement in the 1970s
Post-Second World War laboratory The decades following the Second World War served as a ‘great laboratory for humanitarianism’, according to historian Silvia Salvatici. During this…
I. Introduction: Containing politics dossier
A hypothetical scenario: a child is drowning in a pond and a person unrelated to them is walking by. The pond is shallow, and the…
III. Energy and ecosocial democracy against fossil gattopardismo
From Azerbaijan to Guanajuato, energy is at the centre of geopolitical agendas and conflicts. Global militarisation and inter-imperial competition are largely associated with disputes over…
VIII. Deadlock in the dark: breaking out of the South African electricity crisis
Deadlocked in the dark In 2023, South Africans endured 6,947 hours of electricity outages, nearly double the figure from the previous year. While early signs…
V. Five principles of an internationalist just transition to overcome the traps of the ‘green’ economy
The global debate on sustainability is being shaped by the powerful interests and trade agendas of already-industrialised nations. As a consequence, so-called ‘green’ policies are…