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Briefing
Mpox response in urban informal settlements fr
This brief highlights key issues and good practices that can be carried into the design and delivery of mpox response activities in urban informal settlements.
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
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Blog
War on Palestine
In this blog post, Cultural Anthropology gathers together published articles on Palestine/Israel.
Blog
The attack on Gaza and the role of anthropologists
In this piece, Santiago Ripoll highlights the importance of anthropology and social theory when approaching the ongoing attack on Gaza.
Blog
Beyond grief: To love and stay with those who die in our arms
Devin G. Atallah asks, 'What does it take to love our babies, our living, and our dead in the midst of Israel's genocidal colonial conquest?'
Factsheet
Frequently asked questions on ICRC’s work in Israel and the occupied territories
This web page aims to make information accessible to all those who feel the ICRC can help them, as well as address frequently asked questions about ICRC's work and international humanitarian law.
Article
Gaza crisis: Babies being born ‘into hell’ amid desperate aid shortages ar
Babies are being 'delivered into hell' in Gaza with many others likely dying as a result of conflict with Israel and increasingly dire conditions in the enclave, UN humanitarians warned.
Background report
War in the Gaza Strip: Public health situation analysis
A public health situation analysis concerning the population living within the Gaza Strip and affected by the acute emergency resulting from large-scale military operations by Israel and Hamas.
Article
Gaza conflict: how children’s lives are affected on every level
An article describing how children living in Gaza have never known anything but overcrowding, shortages, conflict and danger.
Report
Participatory vulnerability analysis in the north of the Gaza Strip
This report draws on a workshop, focus group discussions and key informant interviews to understand the vulnerability of communities and livelihoods in the northern Gaza Strip, including how this enabled the design of resilience-oriented actions.
Report
Gender alert: The gendered impact of the crisis in Gaza ar
This document provides an overview of the situation in Gaza and articulates UN Women’s work as part of its six-month multisectoral response to the crisis.
Research paper
Gender relations and power dynamics in WFP Palestine beneficiary households study – WFP and UN Women 2022
A study to assess gender dynamics and power relations in WFP Palestine beneficiary households and propose recommendations to improve the gender transformative potential of WFP programming.
Comment
Violence in Palestine demands immediate resolution of its settler colonial root causes
An editorial calling for the violence in Palestine to end.
