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Update on Displacement and Protection in Southeast Asia
Dario Carminati
6 November 2013
Southeast Asia is vulnerable to climate change, with high population densities and natural disasters already occurring frequently. Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos all appear in a recent list of the 12 countries most at risk from floods, rising sea levels, and storms. Together with...
Transforming humanitarian leadership
Eric James
18 October 2013
Daniel LutzKritte HoffritzWe aid workers operate in enormously complex environments and good leaders are our most critical resource. Yet they are also our most scarce. Too often, technically competent people go from being proficient project officers, to mediocre programme managers to unexceptional...
The language of IHL: Strengthening protection
Angharad Laing
9 October 2013
In numerous emergencies around the world, humanitarian practitioners are operating in complex and insecure situations. Their access is constrained – as a direct result of hostilities, violence against them, and interference in their activities by both states and non-state actors – with tragic...