Bonus: Rethinking UNGA | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The 80th UN General Assembly should be consequential given all that's happening: the genocide in Gaza, spiralling emergencies, aid cuts, the crisis of trust in the UN system. But does the rhetoric in ...
26 Sep 202538min
The UN's 20th-century diplomacy for 21st-century problems | Rethinking Humanitarianism
As world leaders gather for the 80th UN General Assembly, we're digging into the past to illuminate the present. What UN reforms are needed? Historian Thant Myint-U talks about how the UN became sidet...
17 Sep 202557min
Event | What should humanitarian actors do to stop the genocide in Gaza?
As the genocide in Gaza continues, humanitarian organisations face mounting pressure and unprecedented constraints. Famine has been declared, access remains heavily restricted, and international mecha...
16 Sep 20251h 33min
The UN and the crisis of liberalism | Rethinking Humanitarianism
When is the UN a force for good, and when is it a fig leaf? CEO Tammam Aloudat speaks with Mark Leon Goldberg and Anjali Dayal – hosts of the podcast To Save Us From Hell – about the global rise in il...
3 Sep 202557min
An interview with UN relief chief Tom Fletcher | Rethinking Humanitarianism
"It's not just our finances that are under attack, but it's also our morale and our legitimacy." In a fresh season of the podcast, TNH CEO Tammam Aloudat, our new host, sits down with people who have ...
10 Jul 202533min
Don't look away from Gaza | What's Unsaid
On 7 October 2023, Rita Baroud was a 20-year-old in Gaza thinking about doing a master's degree. Today, evacuated to France after surviving nearly 20 months of genocide, she's a journalist who recentl...
26 Jun 202524min
What's missing is a relationship with the grassroots | Power Shift
Power Shift is an experiment in dialogue that puts decision-makers in aid and philanthropy and those affected by their decisions in honest, one-on-one conversations about the aid sector's inequalities...
5 Jun 202556min
Should we talk to the jihadists? | What's Unsaid
After a decade of fighting jihadist groups in the Sahel – and losing – isn't it time for governments to try dialogue? Speaking about her research project Negotiating with Islamist and jihadi armed gro...
22 Mai 202528min
