Forget the ICC: Reflections on the Bashir Arrest Warrant
By Adam Branch
Seven years into its operation, the International Criminal Court remains a court that prosecutes only Africans. The issuance […]
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A Humane Gaze: Historicizing the West’s Construction of Humanitarian Need in Africa
Laura J. Mitchell
In response to the prompt at the heart of the “Humanitarian Interventions in Africa” conference, I decided to focus on European […]
Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa launches its blog 2
The two posts below start off our blog, which both accompanies and transcends our conference (at UCI on January 16 and 17, 2009) on “Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in […]
Wherefore Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa?
Cecelia Lynch
Kibera, the Nairobi neighborhood usually called a slum that is home to between 600,000 and one million people (depending on who is counting, how, and […]
The Humanitarian Misunderstanding: Fragmented States and the Privatization of Imperialism tt
Cilas Kemedjio
In the wake of massive starvations in Ethiopia two decades ago, singers from around the world came together to protest […]