The Journal of Humanitarian Affairs

Edited by Bertrand Taithe, Juliano Fiori, Antoine Burgard, Umit Seven, Lia Brazil, Marion Pechayre (Msf Paris) and Phoebe Shambaugh (University of Bayreuth

The triannual Journal of Humanitarian Affairs (ISSN: 2515-6411 (Online)) is an exciting, open access journal hosted jointly by The Humanitarian Affairs Team at Centre de Réflexion sur l’Action et les Savoirs Humanitaires MSF (Paris) and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at The University of Manchester.

It contributes to current thinking around humanitarian governance, policy and practice with academic rigour and political courage.

The journal challenges contributors and readers to think critically about humanitarian issues that are often approached from reductionist assumptions about what experience and evidence mean.

It covers contemporary, historical, methodological and applied subject matters and will bring together studies, debates and literature reviews.

The journal engages with these through diverse online content, including peer reviewed articles, expert interviews, policy analyses, literature reviews and ‘spotlight’ features.

Our rationale can be summed up as follows: the sector is growing and is facing severe ethical and practical challenges.

The Journal of Humanitarian Affairs provides a space for serious and inter-disciplinary academic and practitioner exchanges on pressing issues of international interest.

The journal aims to be a home and platform for leading thinkers on humanitarian affairs, a place where ideas are floated, controversies are aired and new research is published and scrutinised.

Areas in which submissions will be considered include humanitarian financing, migrations and responses, the history of humanitarian aid, failed humanitarian interventions, media representations of humanitarianism, the changing landscape of humanitarianism, the response of states to foreign interventions and critical debates on concepts such as resilience or security.