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SSHAP learning note: Building a localised approach
This learning note shares insights, experiences and lessons from SSHAP's approach to the localisation of its operational responses in sub-Saharan Africa.
Article
Hiding in plain sight: IDP’s protection strategies after closing Juba’s protection of civilian sites
This article examines how former Protection of Civilian site (PoCs) residents are staying safe and protecting themselves after the United Nations Mission in South Sudan's (UNMISS) handing over of the PoCs to the Revitalised-Transitional Government of National Unity (R-TGoNU).
Article
Sing safety: understanding South Sudanese protection strategies through song
This article argues that paying attention to music can help humanitarians understand self-protection strategies, especially as music can create space for discussion even about emotive or political topics that cannot be verbalised in other ways.
Article
Safety among displaced South Sudanese in Khartoum: the role of Christian faith communities
Christianity occupies an integral part of South Sudanese journeys through wars and displacement. This article explores the role of Christian faith communities in providing protection during South Sudanese displacement in Khartoum.
Article
Seeking safety: Identifying protection gaps for artists in South Sudan
Protection of artists during times of conflict has no specific framework in international humanitarian law. However, cultural sites, artefacts and institutions are protected. This article contributes empirical evidence from South Sudan to reveal how artists experience the protection gap and…
Article
Negotiating faith in exile: learning from displacements from and into Arua, North West Uganda
Humanitarians have recently championed faith actors as valuable resources in delivering humanitarian aid. This paper explores how faith has been entangled within the dynamics of two spatially connected crises: Ugandans fleeing post-Amin reprisals in the mid-1980s, and South Sudanese fleeing…
Article
Protection and containment: surviving COVID-19 in Palabek refugee settlement, Northern Uganda
Humanitarian assistance is framed around ‘protection’. Deciding whom to protect and against what is not straightforward, particularly during a pandemic. This article critically explores containment and protection by focusing on refugee self-protection in Uganda.
Article
Community self-protection, public authority and the safety of strangers in Bor and Ler, South Sudan
Protection is not simply something done or delivered to people by states, humanitarian organisations and armed peacekeepers. We use interview data from communities in Bor and Ler, South Sudan, long affected by conflict, to show how attention to the relationship…
Article
Humanitarian protection activities and the safety of strangers in the DRC, Syria and South Sudan
Many contemporary humanitarian organisations derive their legitimacy from their claims to protect civilians. Yet, what these organisations do in its name includes a diverse and contested range of activities that are often far from what global publics and affected populations…
Article
The safety of strangers: the realities and politics of protecting civilians in times of war
Recent wars have brutally shown that civilians are not safe. This is despite high-level global commitments and multi-billion-dollar humanitarian spending to keep civilian strangers protected. The high civilian death tolls in recent armed conflicts are prompting new questions about how…
Briefing
Post-trauma impacts in conflict-affected communities in northern Nigeria
This Key Considerations brief compares the biomedical framing of post-traumatic stress disorder with the social science understanding of the drivers of and possible solutions for mental health impacts of trauma.
Briefing
Female genital mutilation among Sudanese displaced populations in Egypt ar
A Key Considerations brief considering the drivers and dynamics of FGM practices in the context of forced displacement to inform culturally sensitive strategies for FGM prevention and response.
Briefing
Addressing the humanitarian needs of forced rural-to-city migrants in north-west Nigeria with a focus on mental health vulnerability
This Fellows Brief calls for action to address the needs of a hitherto underserved, internally displaced people.
Briefing
Mutual aid lessons and experiences from Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan arfr
A Key Considerations brief based on the first case study of the volunteer networks known as Emergency Response Rooms, conducted June to August 2024.
Briefing
Food assistance prioritisation in refugee settlements in Uganda and its impacts sw
This brief considers the humanitarian and policy implications of the general food and cash assistance prioritisation strategy in Uganda’s refugee settlements.
Briefing
Balancing epidemic preparedness and response with humanitarian protection in Ugandan refugee settlements
This brief presents considerations for preparedness and response, focusing on refugee settlements in north Uganda and drawing on ethnographic data collected during COVID-19.
Infographic
Alleviating chronic food insecurity in South Sudan arfr
This infographic summarises the Key Considerations briefing on responding to food insecurity in South Sudan, highlighting the importance of investment in agriculture and livelihoods, market access and infrastructure, and promoting sustainable peace.
Report
Scarcity and fear: A gender analysis of the impact of the war in Gaza on vital services essential to women’s and girls’ health, safety, and dignity – water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
One in a series of UN Women gender alerts begun at the start of the war in Gaza, this one focusing on WASH services.
Blog
Gaza is not a humanitarian crisis: on self-defence, depoliticising language, and contextualisation
A 'Public Anthropologist' blog by Heidi Mogstad, a researcher for the 'War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience' research project.
Comment
Why ‘Framing Gaza’?
Allegra essayists write that the facts of war can no longer be disputed; instead, what is at stake is how violence and harm are framed.
Research paper
Health in the crossfire – Analyzing and mitigating the multifaceted health risks of the 2023 war on Gaza
This paper examines the multifaceted and escalating health risks associated with the ongoing war in Gaza, employing a systems thinking approach to understand and address these complex challenges.
Research paper
Mitigating risks of slow children development due to war on Gaza 2023
This paper explores multifaceted approaches to mitigate severe risks to children's physical, cognitive, emotional and social development, emphasising the need for comprehensive support systems for children in conflict zones.
Research paper
Children on the Gaza-Israel border: Victims of war
This commentary highlights the impact of armed conflict on children at the Gaza-Israel border.
Briefing
Alleviating chronic food insecurity in South Sudan arfr
This Key Considerations brief analyses the causes of food insecurity in South Sudan and the responses by government and non-government actors and partners, and offers considerations for these actors to support ending food insecurity, especially via bolstering agriculture and livelihoods.
Infographic
Responding to floods in South Sudan through the humanitarian-peace-development nexus infographic arfr
This infographic summarises the insights from a recent key considerations brief on responding to floods in South Sudan, describing the multidimensional impacts of flooding on peace, health, livelihoods and governance.
Briefing
Responding to floods in South Sudan through the humanitarian-peace-development nexus arfr
This Key Considerations brief looks at interconnected problems in the context of South Sudan through a focus on flooding, with wider relevance to other countries in the region, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan, experiencing similar…
Report
Conflict-sensitive returns and integration in South Sudan
This research aims to provide a stronger understanding of the risks and opportunities associated with ‘returns’ and ‘integration’ in South Sudan, as well as highlight opportunities for conflict-sensitive (re)integration and early solutions activities.
Research paper
Psychosocial concerns in a context of prolonged political oppression: Gaza mental health providers’ perceptions
This qualitative exploratory study investigated the perspectives of mental health providers in Gaza regarding the primary concerns of their clients who are exposed to low-intensity warfare and structural violence.
Research paper
Coping with trauma and adversity among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip: A qualitative, culture-informed analysis
In this article, the authors propose that coping is not only an individual property but also a structural feature.
Report
‘Stop the war and let me return to my home, even if it is destroyed.’ Community priorities and perceptions of aid and support in Gaza (January 2024)
This report contains insights from a Ground Truth Solutions and Arab World for Research and Development study talking to people in Gaza to find out what the humanitarian situation looked like from their perspective.
Blog
A Palestinian poet’s perilous journey out of Gaza ar
A 'letter from Gaza' from Mosab Abu Toha, who fled his home with his wife and three children, before the IDF soldiers took him into custody.
Blog
In the face of genocide, the intifada must be globalised
Chloe Skinners writes that the ‘shaking off’ of colonial dynamics of racism, violence, dehumanisation and division must be globalised.
Blog
Contextualising Gaza: Colonial violence and occupation
Chloe Skinner, Philip Proudfoot and Ali Reda write that while 7 October events precipitated a declaration of war, it is paramount to remember that a constant state of war, displacement and oppression has shaped Palestinian reality for over seven decades.
Blog
Tectonic shifts: A conversation with Darryl Li
A conversation about the unfolding crisis in Gaza and some of its wider implications for the Palestinian struggle and the solidarity movement..
Blog
Language is a powerful weapon in the Israel-Palestine conflict
Ammara Maqsood and Amandas Ong describe how the terminology of the powerful too often trivialises war, dehumanises those who suffer and erases the past.
Blog
Voices from Gaza
Translated transcripts of personal text messages, voice notes, and social media posts Gazan friends and loved ones have managed to send.
