Developing online postgraduate programme in Global Disaster Management
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute recently signed a collaborative agreement with PolyUs School of Nursing, to jointly develop an online postgraduate programme in Global Disaster Management. This programme aims to provide students with an opportunity to...
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...
Merlin History Project
The UK medical NGO Merlin has recently agreed to join forces with Save the Children.To ensure that Merlin's story is recorded and its achievements and contributions to the humanitarian and health sectors are properly recognised and understood, Merlin has commissioned...
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...
THURSDAY: Understanding Ebola – Featuring speakers at the forefront of the Ebola Response #HcriEbolaEvent
<!---->A Tri-Institute Lecture, delivered by The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, at The University of ManchesterBWPI, HCRI and IDPM are leading centres of research and teaching at The University of Manchester. Working in the closely related fields...
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...
30th Anniversary of BBC Report on 1983-’85 Ethiopian Famine
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the screening of the BBC report into the 1983-85 Ethiopian famine. Showing dramatic images of the effects of the famine, the broadcast was a seminal moment in crisis reporting and generated a massive public response. It influenced...
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...