Wednesday 31st January 2024: Today, a cohort of local peacebuilders from around the world launch Peace Starts Here, a global movement for peacebuilders. The campaigners are inviting people to sign a
Charting the Course: Navigating 2024’s Humanitarian Landscape
Crises are mounting, and their impacts are overlapping and rippling across the globe. Emergency response has grown more complicated, and more costly. What’s the way forward? Each year, The New Hum
Artificial Intelligence and Peacemaking – the case of digital dialogues in Sudan
Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools have been effective in collecting and analysing large quantities of data, potentially increasing the inclusivity of peace processes. This Insight paper high
What can Humanitarians Expect from the UN’s Pact for the Future?
‘I’m not that alarmed that this process could damage the multilateral system, but I am worried that it will waste time, resources, and political capital.’ The main UN General Assembly week will se
Taking Localisation Beyond Labels and Lip Service
Donors increasingly speak of locally led aid response, but often do not walk the walk. Case in point is the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the humanitarian and developmen
Developing an Agenda for the Decolonization of Global Health
Colonialism, which involves the systemic domination of lands, markets, peoples, assets, cultures or political institutions to exploit, misappropriate and extract wealth and resources, affects health
Evidence Brief: Key takeaways from HDP Nexus partnerships supporting displaced populations and host communities
Since the adoption of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR), the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have stren
Shifting Power Dynamics, Localization, and Decolonization: Implications for Community-based Peacebuilding
The success–or failure–of peace and development approaches hinge on power dynamics in our relationships with each other. The range of actors and entities critical to the success of peacebuilding and
Going Local without Localization: Power and Humanitarian Response in the Syrian War
Highlights: • International humanitarians rely on local actors to deliver aid, but they do not localize by shifting authority over response to local actors. • A power framework proposes that in
Locally-led Development: Beyond Promises to Action
Over the last couple of years, we have seen an unprecedented number of commitments by funders and philanthropists to support locally-led development, increase direct funding to local actors and promo