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The Feinstein International Center provides advisory support to the Darfur Development and Reconstruction Agency (DRA) – a national NGO in Sudan – to set up and manage a community-based market monitoring network […]

Since our founding in 1997, the Feinstein International Center has broadened into a multidisciplinary institution focused on providing the understanding, teaching, and evidence needed to drive positive change in […]

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Increasing numbers of the world’s rural population are moving to urban areas, and refugees, internally displaced people and humanitarian populations are amongst the recently […]

This report presents the results from a baseline assessment of the PSNP Plus project in Sire and Dodota woreda’s in the Oromiya region of Ethiopia.

These assessments are part of a broader longitudinal impact […]

This report presents the findings of the first two stages of an assessment of the PSNP Plus project in Doba woreda in West Hararghe.

These assessments are part of a broader longitudinal impact study of the PSNP […]

The USAID funded PSNP Plus project ‘Linking Poor Rural Households to Microfinance and Markets in Ethiopia’ ended in December 2011. The PSNP Plus was designed as a three-year project in support of the Government of […]

This paper explores the relationships between climate change, humanitarian crises and humanitarian response through a review of published and grey literature.  We examine the historical evidence for associations […]

The last decade has witnessed a serious change in the distribution and accessibility of food. In 2010 Ethiopia was home to 2.8 million people in need of emergency food aid; yet this country had concurrently sold […]

Introduction Global preoccupation with rapid and unregulated urbanization and protracted urban violence is on the rise. Chronically violent cities – Abidjan, Baghdad, Ciudad Juarez Gaza, Guatemala, Kingston, Nablus, Grozny, Mogadishu and Rio de Janeiro – are all synonyms for a “new” kind of armed conflict with grave implications for humanitarian…[Read more]

Households in the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda have seen a precipitous drop in access to and availability of animal milk in recent years. The declining milk supply affects livelihoods, food security, and markets, but has the greatest impact on the diets and nutrition of young children. This study, the latest under the collaborative…[Read more]

Could a doctor working for a humanitarian organisation be sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States for having offered his “expert advice” to people linked to a “terrorist organisation”? That is what is feared by a number of civil rights’ organisations in the US since the Supreme Court declared on 21 June 2010 that…[Read more]

“Don’t be naive, Colonel,” said the doctor. “We are already too old to wait for the Messiah.”

–Gabriel García Márquez, No One Writes to the Colonel

I. Introduction: dispossessed after decades of conflict Any work or lecture on long standing, unresolved conflicts would certainly refer to the Middle East or Kashmir, and may even refer to more…[Read more]

Introduction This article aims at describing and analyzing the neo-realist theory with the focus on humanitarian aspects. In the first part of this article I will briefly present the theory of neo-realism in international relations and its major concepts and tenets. The second part of the paper will look into possible application of the given theory [...]

Introduction Since the early 1990s, donors and aid agencies have been increasingly concerned about quality and accountability in disaster response (van Brabant, 2002). One of the consequences of these concerns was the creation of the Sphere project, which consists of a rights charter and quality standards for aid agencies involved in providing…[Read more]

January 12, 2010 will forever be remembered as one of the world’s deadliest disasters. For thirty-five seconds the earth shook and reduced a nation – already struggling with the weight of slavery, underdevelopment, imperialism, and intense internal divisions—to rubble. A conservative estimate of 1.5 million people – one in six people in Haiti – lost [...]

The concept of humanitarian space is used to describe the situation where the changing nature of armed conflict and the geopolitical shifts, particularly since 9/11, have combined to limit or restrict the capacity of humanitarian organizations to safely and effectively provide material relief to populations suffering the ravages of war. In…[Read more]

Introduction For decades, religion was effectively ignored by practitioners and researchers concerned with development and humanitarian aid – secularist biases in conceptualising development combined with essentialist conceptions of religion as inherently conservative and reactionary left no room for religion. In fact, religion was, according to…[Read more]

Introduction Juvenile justice is a fundamental – but often overlooked – component of criminal justice systems. It is also a critical element of successful international legal development models, but in a similar way is not a major focus of many international foreign assistance donors. To be sure, a comprehensive international framework for…[Read more]

“The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.” –Article 1 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

In early April 1994, following the assassination of the Rwandan [...]

Since the early 1990s, the phenomenon of child soldiering has received an increasing amount of attention as a result of three internationally significant events. First, the signing of the international Convention of the Rights of the Child in 1989-which was subsequently ratified by 191 countries (Fernando, Jude, 2001)-put the rights of children on…[Read more]