The Humanitarian Commons
Curated knowledge for understanding humanitarian action, contexts, and systems.
An open resource assembling journalism, analysis, opinion, data, and research to help practitioners, academics, and anyone concerned with humanitarian affairs navigate the complexity of the world's most pressing crises.
Contexts
Geographic and conflict-specific humanitarian situations.
Palestine
The humanitarian crisis in Palestine, with a focus on Gaza, the occupied territories, international humanitarian law, and the political economy of aid in the context of prolonged occupation and conflict.
Sudan
The humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan following the outbreak of armed conflict in April 2023, one of the world's largest displacement crises and a test case for the failures of international humanitarian response.
Themes
Cross-cutting issues shaping humanitarian action and debate.
Climate and Humanitarianism
How climate change is reshaping humanitarian needs, challenging existing response models, and forcing a reckoning with the political economy of vulnerability and adaptation.
Future of the Humanitarian System
The structural crisis facing the international humanitarian system: growing needs, stagnant funding, institutional inertia, and competing visions for reform.
Localisation
The movement to shift power, resources, and decision-making in humanitarian action from international organisations to local and national actors, and the structural barriers that impede this shift.