Review of ‘Aid, Conflict and Peace: Collaborative Research Symposium’
A report by Rebecca Viney-Wood, PhD student HCRI All photos owned by Rebecca Viney-Wood, PhD student HCRI On Friday 19 May, the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute were privileged to host the ‘Aid, Conflict and Peace: Collaborative Research Symposium’. This...
read moreExchange Tour to UK on Global Emergency Team Development
On 8th May a delegation of health-care professionals from China and Hong Kong arrived in the UK co-hosted by Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (HKAM) and the Humanitarian Conflict and Response Institute (HCRI). The exchange tour is one of the activities under the project...
read moreProfessor Tony Redmond becomes President of WADEM at Congress 2017
The World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) is a multidisciplinary professional association whose mission is the global improvement of prehospital and emergency health care, public health, and disaster health and preparedness. At their 2017...
read morePublished articles in the ‘Injury’ international journal
Some recent papers from HCRI's collaborative project with the Red Cross have been published in the May edition of 'Injury', an international journal dealing with trauma care and accident surgery. Are prehospital deaths from trauma and accidental injury preventable? A...
read moreUniversity of Manchester takes lead on new standard for disaster volunteers
Charities, businesses and community groups across the world will be able to streamline and improve their response to emergencies and disasters, thanks to a new International Standard initiated at the University of Manchester. The standard, developed by an...
read moreThe Manipulation of Aid
By Dr Eleanor Davey. A small but vigorous cottage industry has grown up around the instrumentalisation of humanitarian aid. It sustains both researchers and journalists. Perhaps the most pointed in the latter category is the Dutch writer Linda Polman, whose book...
read morePolicy déjà vu – all over again
By Professor Roger MacGinty. It might be a function of my advancing years, but I have noticed a set of policy-driven debates coming around again. These were debates that occupied scholars and policy-makers twenty years ago and they are now back again. Here are a few...
read moreHumanitarianism in Practice: research visit to Rwanda and Uganda
by Adil Mohammed. In January 2017, I had the pleasure to accompany 24 of our masters’ students to Rwanda and Uganda on a research visit to explore humanitarianism in action. The aim of the visit was to give students from our 3 masters’ pathways fieldwork experience in...
read moreHCRI students Heidi and Isabelle reflect on their time as Project Trust Volunteers
Isabelle What inspired you to get involved with Project Trust? I always knew I wanted to take a year off after my A-levels as I wanted a bit of a break from education, but I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. When Project Trust did a talk at my school I knew straight...
read moreEmergency and Disaster Medicine Research Scientist sentenced to death in Iran
Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, a highly respected physician, teacher, scientist and humanitarian was arrested on April 25 and detained in Evin Prison, Iran and has been informed that his punishment will be execution. Issues of "fake news" seem to dominate the headlines these...
read moreUK Emergency Medical Team simulation exercise
By Professor Tony Redmond OBE. Tony is the Director of UK-Med, an NGO which provides emergency medical assistance in disaster situations, and Deputy Director and Professor of International Emergency Medicine at HCRI. Training to respond to sudden onset large-scale...
read moreCall for Papers: Peacebuilding Conference 2017
'Peacebuilding during an age of crisis' Annual Conference of the International Association of Peace and Conflict Studies, 11-12 September 2017, University of Manchester Academic critiques of contemporary peacebuilding have shown a tendency in recent years to limit...
read moreWhere’s the reconciliation?
by Roger Mac Ginty. December 16 is South Africa’s national reconciliation day. I am just back from a trip there and I was struck by the absence of reconciliation in everyday life. As ever, a short trip in a massive and varied country only affords a snapshot (I was in...
read moreCivil society and the liberal peace: Top down interventions from below?
by Dr Birte Vogel. This blog post is based on Dr Vogel's article published in Intervention and Statebuilding. Over the past decades, peacebuilding has changed. The participation of non-state has steadily increased. This development has been promoted by, at best, mixed...
read moreQuestioning humanitarian action in Madagascar
by Eleanor Davey. From the Rova of Antananarivo, a former royal site set high on a hill, the view over the Madagascan capital extends for miles. ‘Tana’ – as it is nicknamed – was founded in the seventeenth century, adopted as the capital under French colonisation, and...
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