'Basics’ won’t do: A response to Marc Dubois’ ‘new humanitarian basics'

This blog post aims to challenge Marc DuBois’ proposition of a ‘new humanitarian basics’ and the notion that humanitarianism should be limited to ‘short-term delivery of emergency relief’. It argues for an alternative conceptualisation of humanitarian action and crises, as well as for recognition of the added value of humanitarian responses to situations that do not fit in the traditional realm of humanitarianism.