The humanitarian world emerged from the 1990s both saddened and chastened. Again and again nonprofit and UN personnel had been overwhelmed by the magnitude of particular crises -- as when 2 million ...

“The idea that we’re able to deal with the rights of women around the world by military force is not rational.” This single sentence from President Biden’s ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos on ...

Humanitarianism is probably the most important "ism" in the world today, given the collapse of communism, the discrediting of neoliberalism, and the general distrust of large-scale political ...

The United Nations International Day of Human Space Flight is on April 12. As we look towards settlements on the Moon and Mars, and farther afield, we must plan and prepare for disasters in off-world ...

The last century has seen the emergence of several humanitarian norms and laws that were arduous, even frustrating, to implement and often ignored by governments, but which were the result of ...

Welcome to the Global Health and Humanitarianism MOOC. We are delighted to have you with us, and hope that the next six weeks will provide an interesting and thoughtful experience for you. We hope the ...

The international community is making a major push in 2016 to bring reforms to a global humanitarian system stretched close to the breaking point. 2015 was a remarkable year for international ...

Aug. 19 is World Humanitarian Day and, as with most things related to humanitarianism, it has a tragic origin. On that day in 2003, a bomb attack killed 22 humanitarian aid workers. Five years later, ...