Adapting to Shifts in the Humanitarian Paradigm

Massive increases in transcontinental migration, intensifying climate change disasters, the global COVID-19 pandemic, more protracted regional conflicts, and escalating criminal violence are forcing the international donor community to rethink how it deals with these more complex humanitarian challenges. The need to find new ways to analyze, adapt to, and respond to these evolving crises is forcing a concomitant paradigm shift in the international humanitarian aid structure. To support these humanitarian efforts, the international humanitarian community must explore innovative ways of analyzing the threats, actors, and challenges that have emerged to better understand the implications of this far more complex humanitarian paradigm.