From remote control to remote management, and onwards to remote encouragement? The evolution of MSF's operational models in Somalia and Afghanistan – CORRIGENDUM

Hofman, Michiel; Pérache, André Heller

doi:10.1017/s1816383115000193

Int. rev. Red Cross

2014

DOI: 10.1017/s1816383115000193

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From remote control to remote management, and onwards to remote encouragement? The evolution of MSF's operational models in Somalia and Afghanistan – CORRIGENDUM

Michiel Hofman¹,

André Heller Pérache²

Abstract: The text of the above article by Michiel Hofman and Andre Heller Pérache has been amended since it was first published online. The original version of this text represented the vote taken by MSF's International General Assembly as having been divided, rather than a resounding majority decision. The article has now been corrected in order to assure historical accuracy.

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‘Who Can Sing the Song of MSF?’

James

2020

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs

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This article explores the everyday practice of security management and negotiations for access conducted by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in North Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Based on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews and archival exploration, it examines the experience of MSF Congolese employees, who navigate a complex politics of humanitarian fixing and brokerage. Their role in MSF is simultaneously defined and circumscribed by their political and social situation. MSF’s security management relies on local staff’s interpersonal networks and on their ability to interpret and translate. However, local staff find themselves at risk, or perceived as a ‘risk’: exposed to external pressures and acts of violence, while possibilities for promotion are limited precisely because of their embeddedness. They face a tension between being politically and socially embedded and needing to perform MSF’s principles in practice. As such, they embody the contradictions of MSF’s approach in North Kivu: a simultaneous need for operational ‘proximity’, as well as performative distance from everyday conflict processes.

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‘Who Can Sing the Song of MSF?’

James

2020

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs

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From remote control to remote management, and onwards to remote encouragement? The evolution of MSF's operational models in Somalia and Afghanistan – CORRIGENDUM

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