'(Re-)Shaping Boundaries in Crisis and Crisis Response: introducing the 2018 International Humanitarian Studies Association Conference' by Dorothea Hilhorst.
Today, in a rapidly changing world, humanitarian crisis response and humanitarianism is increasingly confronted with boundaries that are dissolving, displaced, or resurrecting. The bi-annual International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA) Conference taking place at ISS from 27-29 August seeks to unpack the way in which boundaries related to crisis and humanitarianism are shaped.
In this blog post, IHSA President Dorothea Hilhorst reflects on the importance of the conference in an era where governments are increasingly alienated from the vulnerable people that they have the duty to protect.