Join us for the next IHSA Annual Lecture ‘Reconstrucción desde la base: La experiencia colombiana con la agencia de las víctimas y la sanación’ in Bogotá, Colombia & Online

The next Annual Lecture ‘Grassroots reconstruction: The Colombian experience with victim agency and healing’ will be given by Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll on 22 May at the Universidad de los Andes. The Lecture will be given in Spanish with English translation available.

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IHSA prepares a weekly collection of blog posts that relate to humanitarian crises, and the responses to crisis from people, communities, politicians, and humanitarians. The weekly newsletter also shares IHSA events and news as well as activities and publications from IHSA members.

Do you want to host the next IHSA Conference on Humanitarian Studies in 2027?

We are looking for partners for our 9th Biennial Humanitarian Studies Conference! 2023 was hosted in Dhaka with North-South University and 2025 was in Istanbul with the Turkish Red Crescent and Marmara University & in Bergen with Chr. Michelsen Institute.

Send in your bid by filling out this form and emailing it to info@ihsa.info

About Us

The International Humanitarian Studies Association is a network engaged with the study of humanitarian crises caused by disaster, conflict or political instability. Humanitarian studies concern how humanitarian crises evolve, how they affect people and their institutions, communities and societies, and the responses they trigger.

We form a platform for the different disciplines that address humanitarian studies. It offers a venue where these scholarly communities can meet and debate their different insights and understanding of humanitarian crises, in dialogue with policy actors and implementing agencies. IHSA equally welcomes academic scholars, consultants, policy researchers, and reflective practitioners among its membership.

If you are not a member already, please join us today! If you want to find out more about IHSA Governance and how we function please have a look at our Governance page.

Relevant resources

As a part of our efforts to connect the actors in the humanitarian sector, we have created a selection of humanitarian resources for our community.

This selection includes a wide variety of topics and resources like:

A humanitarian organizations database
A humanitarian blogs database
Our weekly humanitarian blog post selection
We also have created more useful selections of movies, documentaries, and journals among others.

Membership

IHSA offers two types of membership. Individual membership and institutional membership. We equally welcome academic scholars, consultants, policy researchers, and reflective practitioners among our membership. Do you think your institution might be interested in joining IHSA please send us an email. More information about institutional membership can be found here.

The individual membership fee is 25 Euro per year. You can fill in the membership registration form to become a member.

Members:

Are entitled to elect the officers of the Board of IHSA
Receive a discount on any book in the IHSA/ Routledge Humanitarian Studies series
Can participate in IHSA web-based activities
Can join, or start, IHSA Working Groups
Can join (online or in-person) the IHSA conference on Humanitarian Studies
Receive a regular IHSA newsletter
Can freely advertise new initiatives, publications, events (etc!) via the IHSA Social Media channels and weekly newsletter

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