Two cheers for the UN
by Roger Mac Ginty, HCRI Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies.United Nations Day is 24 October. It is easy to criticise the UN. Where shall I start? Slow decision-making, weak leadership, expensive, often focused on conflict manifestations rather than conflict...
Why Rubina chose to study online
Rubina is a student on our online course in Global Health. She lives in Australia and has worked at Australian Red Cross for over five years in a number of roles including supporting asylum seekers and managing food security and nutrition education programmes for...
HCRI Inaugural Lecture 2016: John Borton – The 20 Year Life of Merlin 1993-2013
John Borton, Senior Research Associate at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and HCRI Honorary Lecturer, delivered our 2016 Inaugural Lecture. He spoke about the history of Medical Emergency Relief International (Merlin).Merlin was founded by three friends in...
Media matters: how should we talk about suffering?
by Gurdev SinghWhen David Cameron used the word “swarm” to refer to Europe's refugees in 2015, a national conversation was sparked around the way in which “we” here in Britain (and in the Western world at large) talk about people from other parts of the world who are...
HCRI Landmark Lecture 2016: Mediating the refugee crisis
HCRI's 2016 Landmark Lecture was presented by Professor Lilie Chouliaraki of the LSE. She spoke about the issues around representations of refugees in the media.There is more information about her work and research interests on her research profile. Related...
A very warm welcome to our first cohort of BSc students
by Gemma SouIt’s the start of a new academic year at HCRI and I must say it’s quite a special one too. This is the first year that we will be running our brand new BSc International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response. It’s a bit of a mouthful, but that’s...
Róisín Read in Melbourne
by Dr Róisín Read I recently had the privilege of going to Melbourne to share some of the research from HCRI’s projects on humanitarian data (funded through the Impact Acceleration Account) and the larger ESRC-funded project on peacekeeping data in Darfur. In addition...
Whither Peace?
by Dan Smith @dansmith2020Today is the UN International Day of Peace and it comes at a time when many people seem to feel peace is taking a horrible worldwide kicking. Is it so bad?In the SIPRI Yearbook 2016, my introductory chapter reviews 2015 and tries to draw up a...
Young People in Humanitarianism – engaging our local communities
by Jessica R. Hawkins @hawkinsjessicaRAside from our research visit to East Africa, the 2015-16 Masters cohort had an active second semester. In particular, the HCR students of my Humanitarian Case Studies module organised the inaugural Young People in Humanitarianism...
Major Emergencies: why we need to manage Good Samaritans
by Duncan ShawGlobal disasters are on the rise, and with 24-hour news and social media, so are the numbers who hear about them and want to help. From recent events in Paris, to last year’s severe flooding in the UK, volunteers played a part in rescue efforts. But...
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