Humanitarianism

Event

02 - 03 Dec 2021

Humanitarian Protection 20 Years into the ‘Global War on Terror'

The Norwegian Centre of Humanitarian Studies (NCHS) Annual Meeting will take place on 2-3 December and will be organized as a hybrid event.

Time: 02-03 Dec 2021

Place: PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

News

Wednesday, 18 Aug 2021

New Project on Ethics of Humanitarian Negotiation

The project "Red Lines and Grey Zones: Exploring the Ethics of Humanitarian Negotiation" has received funding from the Research Council of Norway. Starting from consultations with humanitarian practitioners, the project will map problems related to the ethics of negotiation and cross examine these challenges through cases from Syria, Bangladesh, Colombia, Nepal, the Mediterranean and the UN Security Council.

News

Friday, 4 Jun 2021

Russia Readying for Compromise on the UN Humanitarian Aid to Syria

The UN Security Council is to decide on cross-border humanitarian aid to Syria by July 10. In his new blog post ahead of the decision on the controversial issue, Research Professor Pavel Baev looks at how the context of the problem facing the Council has changed from Moscow's perspective since it was last on the table in spring-summer 2020. Baev argues that there are good reasons to assume that Russia is maneuvering toward a compromise supporting the extension of Resolution 2533.

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PRIO Blogs

Wednesday, 24 Nov 2021

European Union-Belarus Border Crisis: Why the narrative of “hybrid warfare” is dangerous

The 2021 EU-Belarus border crisis was preceded by a rapid deterioration of the already strained European Union (EU)-Belarus relations, in most part due to the Ryanair 4978 incident and the concomitant wide-ranging sanctions imposed by the EU on the authoritarian government of the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has often been referred by the media ...

Edited Volume

2021

Citizen Humanitarianism at European Borders

By Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert(ed.) & Elisa Pascucci(eds.)

Book Chapter

2021

Conclusion: Citizen Humanitarianism Beyond the "Crisis"

By Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert & Elisa Pascucci

Denmark leading the race to the bottom: Hostility as a form of migration control

By Ayşe Bala Akal in RLI Blog on Refugee Law and Forced Migration

PRIO Blogs

Friday, 10 Sep 2021

Broadening the Concept of Humanitarian Accountability

Since the 1990s, Western humanitarian organizations have increasingly been concerned with developing tools to assess the efficiency of aid delivery, to establish minimum standards and benchmarks for aid projects, and to convincingly communicate their organizational transparency and accountability to stakeholders. As an extension of these debates, attempts have been made ...

Book Chapter

2021

“We Are Alive, but Have No Life”: Rohingya Refugees, Deprived of the Prospects for a Future

By Marte Nilsen

Book Chapter

2021

Introduction: Citizen Humanitarianism at European Borders

By Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert & Elisa Pascucci

PRIO Blogs

Tuesday, 12 Oct 2021

Migrants Are Dying in the Forests on the EU’s Eastern Borders

The humanitarian crisis on the Poland-Belarus border has claimed several lives. On 30 September, the Polish parliament extended the state of emergency in a three-kilometre-deep strip of land along the border. It is hard to assess the situation in detail, as neither the media nor humanitarian organizations have access to ...

Event Recording

Wednesday, 22 Sep 2021 11:30-13:00

01:35:39

Broadening Humanitarian Accountability

Since the 1990s, western humanitarian organizations have increasingly been concerned with developing tools to assess the efficiency of aid delivery, and convincingly communicate organizational transparency and accountability to stakeholders. A range of local and transnational civic actors are crucial providers of humanitarian assistance too. How do they understand accountability, and through what accountability mechanisms do they operate?

PRIO Blogs

Thursday, 26 Aug 2021

Contingency Planning in the Digital Age: Biometric Data of Afghans Must Be Reconsidered

The situation in Afghanistan changes by the minute. In this blog post, we want to call attention to a largely overlooked issue: protection of Afghan refugees or other Afghans who have been registered biometrically by humanitarian or military agencies. Having collected biometrics from various parts of the Afghan population, for ...