• A Critique of the Humanitarian (B)order of Things 

      De Lauri, Antonio (Journal of Identity and Migration Studies vol. 13 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-01)
      The reification of humanitarian borders generates a politics of crisis that weakens the capacity to produce structural political changes and legitimizes exceptionalism and the reproduction of hierarchized borders. In this ...
    • Boredom and Crisis in the Humanitarian Realm 

      De Lauri, Antonio (Anthropology Today vol. 30(6), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-01-01)
      ‘Humanitarian boredom’ produces its own perspective on the world, providing a ‘point of entry’ to the observation of humanitarianism in practice. In this paper, while problematizing both a general understanding of boredom ...
    • Humanitarian diplomacy as Turkey’s national role conception and performance: evidence from Somalia and Afghanistan 

      Altunisik, Meliha Benli (SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN AND BLACK SEA STUDIES, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-01)
      In recent years Turkey has made Humanitarian Diplomacy (HD) an essential element of its foreign policy. This article analyzes Turkey’s HD as a role conception and role performance by focusing on two cases, Somalia ...
    • Humanitarian Militarism and the Production of Humanity 

      De Lauri, Antonio (Social Anthropology vol. 27 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-01)
      The limits and consequences of humanitarian military operations continue to be major issues in Western public debates on global security, democracy and human rights. This article focuses on the intersection of war and ...
    • Humanitarianism: An Overview 

      De Lauri, Antonio (CMI Insight 2021:3, Report, 2021-06-01)
      This overview briefly discusses four crucial domains of contemporary humanitarianism, namely humanitarian diplomacy, education in emergencies, the concept of civil society in humanitarianism, and humanitarian borders.
    • La diplomazia umanitaria 

      De Lauri, Antonio (CMI Brief no. 2021:3, Report, 2021-04-01)
      Migliorare l’accesso all’aiuto umanitario in situazioni di conflitto e di emergenza è sempre stata una delle principali preoccupazioni per gli operatori umanitari. Per garantire l’accesso, ...
    • Recent trends in the international humanitarian regime and the rise of the UAE 

      Gokalp, Deniz (Research report, 2022-03-01)
      The United Arab Emirates is an Arab Gulf state that has received growing attention as one of the 21st century’s most generous humanitarian aid donors in the world. The young gulf monarchy, like the other fellow members ...
    • Research guide: Refugee settlement and encampment in the Middle East and North Aftica, 1860-1940s 

      Ibrahim, Baher (Others, 2021-01-01)
      The following blog post was published on Refugee History in september 2021. See attached PDF Research guide. We’ve just added a research guide to refugee settlement and encampment in the Middle East and North Africa ...
    • Special Issue: Grassroots Responses to Mass Migration in Europe 

      De Lauri, Antonio; Brkovic, Carna; Hess, Sabine (Book, 2021-07-01)
      The range of grassroots responses to the 2015 migration reception crisis is vast. Depending on the local, national, and migratory contexts, different groups employed different modalities and policies to help the people on ...
    • UNRWA, funding crisis and the way forward 

      Berg, Kjersti G.; Jensehaugen, Jørgen; Tiltnes, Åge A. (CMI Report R 2022:04, Research report, 2022-09-01)
      Summary This commissioned report has two main aims: First, providing a description of what UNRWA is, including its history, mandate and services, with particular emphasis on the recent funding deficit and how that has ...
    • Гуманитаризм: обзор. (Humanitarianism: an overview) 

      De Lauri, Antonio (CMI Insight 2021:6, Report, 2021-06-01)
      Гуманитарная помощь начала распространяться по всему миру примерно с середины ХIХ века. В наши же дни она уже превратилась во что-то глобально-спасительное, в то, что скрывается в понятии «гуманитаризм». В ...
    • قضات زن در افغانستان: مصاحبه ای با انیسه رسولی – Women Judges in Afghanistan: An Interview with Anisa Rasooli 

      De Lauri, Antonio (CMI Insight 2021:7, Report, 2021-09-01)
      رئیس محکمه استیناف مبارزه با جرایم سنگین فساد اداری و شخصیت برجسته قضای کنونی افغانستان می گوید : " من معتقدم که سیستم قضایی افغانستان جایگاه حقیقی خود را باز می یابد. هنوز مشکلات وجود ...