Bertrand TaitheDuring the night of Friday to Saturday 3 October 2015 the US airforce bombed a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz. The attack destroyed the hospital and killed (as of today, 5 October) 13 Medecins sans Frontires staff and about 10 of their patients....
Category: Staff blogs
Some historical reflections on the refugee crisis
Peter Gatrell @PeterGatrellI've been teaching a course on Refugees in modern world history for several years and I wrote a book as a result. Never has the subject seemed timelier or more troubling than in 2015. Here are a few short observations about what historians...
Peace Studies: Where are all the men?
Roger Mac GintyIt is the start of the academic year and I am delighted to say that we have a bumper crop of MA Peace and Conflict Studies students. I'm looking forward to the debates and the intellectual exchange. One thing that is noticeable about the class is its...
Compassion for refugees: Is it more about us than them?
Gemma Sou, @gemmasouAre we more empathetic towards vulnerable and distressed people who we perceive as like us? I have been following the media reports on the refugee crisis and was equally distressed and moved by the images of Aylan Kurdi who washed ashore on a...
Refugees, Kos and Greek Tourism
Jessica HawkinsAs my colleague was suggesting the British PM and his opposition counterpart should take a holiday to Greece to witness the solidarity and compassion of the Greek people towards refugees, I was boarding a flight with the rest of my family to the Greek...
Roger Mac Ginty – Fieldtripping: The ethics and practicalities of student fieldtrips
<!---->Many years ago, when I was a rookie lecturer, I went on an MA fieldtrip to Croatia. There were 29 students, the course leader and myself. I am still embarrassed at the nature of the fieldtrip. All 31 of us loaded onto a bus that toured ruined...
A Country-of-Origin-Report on Eritrea & human rights politics
But my trip is still not over, because I don't get the rights I am entitled to what the row over a Country-of-Origin-Report on Eritrea reveals about human rights politics Dr Tanja Miller writes about Eritrea and the narratives around human rights.The general truth...
Are all lives valued equally? – Human Rights Day
Dr Roisin Read writes about the ethics and issues surrounding humanitarian aid for World Human Rights Day.Both human rights and humanitarianism are moral concepts based on a notion of a universal ideal of shared humanity. This universal ideal tells us we have...
December Updates
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...
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...
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