“When the Night Comes” film critique and discussion
By Cecelia Lynch
I sent the following email to the Directors of the UN Foundation (Timothy Wirth and Elizabeth Gore) after viewing a screening of the film, “When the Night Comes.” […]
Exploring Religion, Faith, and Tradition
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 […]
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 […]