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On Tuesday, Prof @jpfaguet.bsky.social delivered a keynote to Bolivian policymakers on the proposed Agenda 50/50—an ambitious reform to devolve 50% of the national budget to subnational governments.
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My new article examines the formation of a local humanitarian class in Goma, and the transformations and tensions that followed. Open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @lseid.bsky.social
When funding shrinks, the sector’s instinct is to compete. But what if organisations chose collaboration instead? Nadira Saraswati (MSc IDHE), working with In-Sight Collaborative, explores what becomes possible when we stand in the gap together.
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How do politics and past interventions shape responses to Ebola?
Dr Myfanwy James shares insights in The Continent and co-authors a new briefing for those working on the ground 👇
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The problem with focusing aid ‘where it’s most needed’
As Tariq Ambrose argues, new evidence shows that when development funding stops, instability rises and today’s aid priorities may be creating the conditions for tomorrow’s emergencies.
How the UK used ‘tough choices’ language to justify aid cuts that cost lives
Jack Salmon argues that the cuts are enabled not by economic logic but by political language designed to obscure their human cost, and a democratic structure that excludes their victims from the debate altogether.
As legal and financial foundations crumble, humanitarianism is becoming narrower and more fragile. Professor Stuart Gordon calls this “survival humanitarianism,” a system built on triage and constrained access.
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Speaking to LBC News on World Hunger Day, Prof Stuart Gordon examined how food insecurity can precede conflict, undermine public health and amplify global security risks , and why treating hunger as an early alarm, not an after‑effect, is now essential.
How do politics and past interventions shape responses to Ebola?
Dr Myfanwy James (@myfanwyvjames.bsky.social) shares insights in The Continent and co-authors a new briefing for those working on the ground 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
Praveena Makesh traces the quiet tensions between privilege, inherited trauma, and belonging during a visit to Dr B. R. Ambedkar’s London home. Moving through the rooms where Ambedkar once lived and worked, she confronts the subtle hierarchies that persist even in spaces built to honour resistance.
Dr Myfanwy James has been interviewed and quoted in a recent edition of The Continent, an African newspaper, on the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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The humanitarian class: Transformation and tension in eastern Congo
Hunger is increasingly a warning signal of political instability rather than a distant humanitarian tragedy. Speaking to LBC News on World Hunger Day, Professor Stuart Gordon examined how food insecur...
Dr Myfanwy James has been interviewed and quoted in a recent edition of The Continent, an African newspaper, on the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Professor Jean-Paul Faguet delivered a keynote address to a high-level group of Bolivian policymakers and technical experts as part of national discussions on the government’s proposed “Agenda 50/50”.
When funding shrinks, the sector's instinct is competition. What becomes possible when grassroots organisations decide to stand in the gap together instead?
Britain's aid cuts are framed as fiscal responsibility, yet the government spends more managing the consequences of instability than it spent preventing it. MSc Candidate Jack Salmon argues that the c...
In this reflection, MSc Candidate Praveena Makeshtraces the quiet tensions between privilege, inherited trauma, and belonging during a visit to Dr B. R. Ambedkar's London home. Moving through the room...
Donors say they are directing aid “where it’s most needed,” but this shift toward fragile and conflict‑affected states risks weakening the institutions that prevent future crises. As Tariq Ambrose arg...
For Professor Stuart Gordon, the question is not whether humanitarian aid will continue to exist, but what kind of humanitarianism will endure under mounting pressure. As the legal protections, financ...
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The humanitarian class: Transformation and tension in eastern Congo - https://cup.org/4uJyQQk
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