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
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
Cilas Kemedjio
In the wake of massive starvations in Ethiopia two decades ago, singers from around the world came together to protest […]