by Dr Maura DuffyDecember has been a busy and exciting month at HCRI. Some of the highlights so far include:"Afghanistan: The transition" Photography ExhibitionOn Thursday 4th December HCRI launched Afghanistan: The transition the Medecins Sans Frontires/Doctors...
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Third year at the Health in Humanitarian Settings Research Symposium
For the third year in a row intercalating medical students at HCRI (BSc and MA) have attended the annual Health in Humanitarian Settings Research Symposium at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The event this year took place on Tuesday 25th November 2014 and we...
Band Aid 30: Buy the song. Stop the virus. Just don’t ask how.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this post are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute or The University of Manchester.by Dr. Roisin ReadSince Bob Geldof announced he was...
Humanitarian aid after Ebola
Professor Bertrand Taithe has written a blog for ALNAP about the Ebola crisis. The current Ebola crisis will end one day and we will have to think about its significance for humanitarian aid. Is this a turning point? What does it reveal for the societies where Ebola...
Dr Tanja Miller: Democracy, dictatorship, and the messy space in-between reflections on commemorating 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall
Dr Tanja Miller reflects on her experience of the fall of the Berlin Fall in 1989 and as well as on her recent visit to Maputo, Mozambique. Read her blog post here. I was at home that evening, preparing a trip to West Germany, as we Berliner used to say, with a...
A Tale of Two Cities: Narratives of violent and victimized women enduring urban riots in India
A conversation between Dr Atreyee Sen and Dr Rubina Jasani in which both authors discuss the rise of Hindu nationalism or Hindutva in India and its impact on women.A brief extract from this forthcoming publication is available on Allegra: A virtual lab of legal...
Failed Statebuilding by Professor Oliver Richmond now available
A new monograph from Professor of International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies Oliver Richmond is now available.In Failed Statebuilding: Intervention, the State and Dynamic Peace Formation, Professor Oliver Richmond examines why statebuilding has been so hard...
Findings and impressions from HCRI Cyprus fieldwork
Since 1974 the small Mediterranean island of Cyprus has been divided in two. Officially the whole island is considered part of the European Union, however aquis communitaire, the European Unions legislation, is suspended in the North, the Turkish Republic of Northern...
Latest GSDRC Report from Dr Emilie Combaz – Practical guidance to integrate gender into public financial management
Dr Emilie Combaz' latest GSDRC helpdesk report is now available to read online. In this helpdesk report, Dr Combaz explores the available practical guidance for integrating gender into public financial management. Read Practical guidance to integrate gender into...
New GSDRC report from Emilie Combaz – Political economy of Libya after the Qadhafi regime
Dr Emilie Combaz has completed a recent GSDRC helpdesk report, examining the political economy of Libya after the fall of the Qadhafi regime in 2011. These reports are free to read and we encourage people to circulate them widely. Dr Sandra Pogodda, HCRI Lecturer in...
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