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A white building from the outside - the word 'pace' is painted on the front

17 Apr 2022 5 minute read

This article is almost two years old.

Inside the ‘arsenal of peace’

As volunteers prepare aid for Ukrainian refugees, Simone Lai reports from Italy’s largest arms factory –...

humanitarian drones

31 Mar 2018 3 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

Humanitarian drones and other anachronisms

Aid-by-drone, what’s not to like? New tech in the sector brings many problems, Nick Dowson explains.

Three displaced Yemeni girls stand by the shredded remains of their tents in Abs settlement, which is regularly damaged by passing sandstorms.

31 Mar 2018 12 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

Who cares? Humanitarianism under threat

Hazel Healy investigates the challenges facing 21st century disaster response.

The new Turkish humanitarians

31 Mar 2018 5 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

How Turkey is winning hearts and minds in Somalia

Jamal Osman reports on the rise of the new humanitarians in Somalia.

A Rohingya refugee takes a moment’s pause, shortly after arriving in a makeshift camp at Teknaf, Bangladesh, last September. She is one of over 670,000 people to have fled over the border from Myanmar since August 2017.

31 Mar 2018 7 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

Fleeing Myanmar

Parsa Sanjana Sajid speaks to Rohingya refugees trapped on the Bangladeshi border.

A mural in Frankfurt of drowned refugee Alan Kurdi, a photo of whose body lying on the beach went viral in 2015.

31 Mar 2018 3 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

Why we all belong to a shared community

It is not rationality that unites us, but the fragility of our physical bodies, argues Tom Whyman.

31 Mar 2018 7 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

How can famines be ended?

To wipe out mass starvation we must engage with the politics that drive it, argues Alex de Waal.

United Nations

31 Mar 2018 6 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

Where next for the UN?

Should we give up on multilateralism altogether? Ian Williams gives an honest appraisal of the UN.

5 Apr 1997 8 minute read

This article is almost 27 years old.

The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle

To challenge my students to think about the ethics of what we...

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