This article explores assumptions that humanitarian actors carry in their response to violent conflict. As such, it identifies challenges that humanitarians encounter that undermine an effective reduction of violence, and the assumptions that undermine civilian protection. This reflection is accompanied by implications and recommendations for practice and policy for humanitarian actors to address the threat of violence. Read more here
Entries by Veronique Barbelet
Based on research conducted over a two-year period (2022-2024), this report examines how communities directly and indirectly engage with armed actors in a context marred with conflict and violence. The report finds that engagement with armed actors is influenced by many conditions, challenges, opportunities and risks. Finally, the report provides insights on how to leverage such engagement in a way that can reduce violence and contribute to greater complementarity between humanitarian, protection, and peacebuilding interventions….
As part of HelpAge International’s project on advancing the rights and protection of conflict-affected older South Sudanese migrants in Ethiopia, Uganda and South Sudan, HelpAge commissioned the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) to conduct a study on older South Sudanese displaced by conflict, both within South Sudan and across the border in Uganda and Ethiopia. This study takes stock of the progress made and remaining challenges faced by those responding to forced displacement, both in addressing…