Bridging the legitimacy gap – why INGOs should have clarity in their legal status as international actors
By Dr Erla Thrandardottir and Dr Vincent Keating Over the past few decades, INGOs have become influential actors in international politics, gaining privileged access to international debates and policy processes. They are by and large accepted by major states and main...
Review of ‘Aid, Conflict and Peace: Collaborative Research Symposium’
A report by Rebecca Viney-Wood, PhD student HCRI All photos owned by Rebecca Viney-Wood, PhD student HCRI On Friday 19 May, the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute were privileged to host the ‘Aid, Conflict and Peace: Collaborative Research Symposium’. This...
Exchange Tour to UK on Global Emergency Team Development
On 8th May a delegation of health-care professionals from China and Hong Kong arrived in the UK co-hosted by Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (HKAM) and the Humanitarian Conflict and Response Institute (HCRI). The exchange tour is one of the activities under the project...
Professor Tony Redmond becomes President of WADEM at Congress 2017
The World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) is a multidisciplinary professional association whose mission is the global improvement of prehospital and emergency health care, public health, and disaster health and preparedness. At their 2017...
Published articles in the ‘Injury’ international journal
Some recent papers from HCRI's collaborative project with the Red Cross have been published in the May edition of 'Injury', an international journal dealing with trauma care and accident surgery. Are prehospital deaths from trauma and accidental injury preventable? A...
University of Manchester takes lead on new standard for disaster volunteers
Charities, businesses and community groups across the world will be able to streamline and improve their response to emergencies and disasters, thanks to a new International Standard initiated at the University of Manchester.The standard, developed by an international...
The Manipulation of Aid
By Dr Eleanor Davey.A small but vigorous cottage industry has grown up around the instrumentalisation of humanitarian aid. It sustains both researchers and journalists. Perhaps the most pointed in the latter category is the Dutch writer Linda Polman, whose book...
Policy déjà vu – all over again
By Professor Roger MacGinty. It might be a function of my advancing years, but I have noticed a set of policy-driven debates coming around again. These were debates that occupied scholars and policy-makers twenty years ago and they are now back again. Here are a few...
Humanitarianism in Practice: research visit to Rwanda and Uganda
by Adil Mohammed.In January 2017, I had the pleasure to accompany 24 of our masters’ students to Rwanda and Uganda on a research visit to explore humanitarianism in action. The aim of the visit was to give students from our 3 masters’ pathways fieldwork experience in...
Michael’s experience studying for an intercalated BSc
One of the highlights of the course has been the final assessment of the Introduction to Global Health module which was a panel debate looking at the United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda. Our groups were each assigned a role, playing the parts of different...
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