The Future of Humanitarian Action

Author(s)
Bernard, V.
Publication language
English
Pages
6pp
Date published
11 Mar 2013
Type
Articles
Keywords
Development & humanitarian aid, Principles & ethics

Several factors today seem to demonstrate profound changes in the humanitarian sector. These are factors related first to the development of crises and vulnerabilities and the risks that are emerging, second to the environment around humanitarian action and the contemporary challenges to compliance with humanitarian principles, law, and access to victims, and third to new methods and changes in the composition of the sector itself.

In this edition, the Review gives the floor to representatives of a number of humanitarian organizations and research centres to discuss each of these three aspects of change that we think are critical to the future of humanitarian action.