The Good Humanitarian
Have you ever sat and wondered how disasters like floods and earthquakes intersect with conflicts, or how climate change will influence the disasters and responses of tomorrow? Humanitarianism is often thought to be about heroes and victims. But really, it's about people, just like you and I, living through and dealing with extreme situations in their own ways. The humanitarian system is itself a patchwork of people and organisations. And, like all systems, the people who work within it can make mistakes or bad decisions. Join us as we delve into all of this and more with experts from the HSC.
Episodes
Returning guests Professor Thea Hilhorst and Dr Rodrigo Mena join us for this fifth and final episode of this season where together we will look at everything from the meaning of neutrality, how it works in practice, its challenges as well as some examples. As one of the key principles underpinning the humanitarian field and with an increasingly polarised world, what does it mean to be neutral and how does this look in a field made...
Why is it that similar disasters affect some places in a much more severe way than others? And what happens when a country living through a conflict all of a sudden is faced with a disaster? We are joined by Dr Rodrigo Mena, deputy director of the HSC, for this fourth episode to unpack the complexities that is the intersection between conflicts and disasters within the humanitarian arena.
In the podcast we also question: What ma...
Dr Sonja Fransen, senior researcher at The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre, joins us for this third episode of 'The Good Humanitarian' where we unravel the complexities of climate change and its affect on the movement of people, but also on what it means for people in refugee and displacement settings such as camps.
In the podcast we also question: What makes a "good" humanitarian? We would like to hear from ...
In this second episode of 'The Good Humanitarian', we are joined by Dr Kaira Zoe Cañete, senior researcher at The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre with a focus on disaster recovery, humanitarian ethics and feminist alternatives in humanitarian action. Together with the co-hosts, Kaira unpacks the principles that underpin humanitarian work, allowing us to go deeper into understanding how sometimes humanitarians can cause mo...
In this opening episode of 'The Good Humanitarian', presenters Sarah Njoroge and Tom Ansell are joined by Professor Dorothea Hilhorst, Director of The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre. They'll discuss why each crisis should have its own bespoke response (and why it often doesn't), the problems of reducing humanitarian work to just "donor and recipients", when a humanitarian response ends and what the term...
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