IRRC No. 884

What are the future challenges for humanitarian action? Kristalina Georgieva EU Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response and Jakob Kellenberger, President of the ICRC

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Two of the leading humanitarian action policy makers give their respective positions on several questions of current importance, such as that of the continuum between crisis and development or the problem of coordination among humanitarian actors. This debate was conducted in Brussels on 4 October 2011 by Vincent Bernard, Editor-in-Chief, and Mariya Nikolova, Editorial Assistant.

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