🚢 New edition 🚢 DANGEROUS WATERS: the Red Sea logistics crisis is just the latest in series of shocks to the world trade system. Emma Beals talks to Elisabeth Braw & Bruce Jones about how supply chains are the new pressure point.

Listen everywhere 📲 listen.podmasters.uk/TINAD2404trade…

Breaking a long twitter hiatus to ask the hivemind if anyone can suggest a relatively small, quick turnaround (vital), grant for a research/policy paper with a global focus that I may not have considered? Grateful in advance for any suggestions.

I wrote a piece for the FT today about the risks of regional escalation in the Middle East linked to the Gaza war.

ft.com/content/8f2157…

No surprise, my prognosis is grim:

“Perhaps the most immediate danger, however, is not a sudden explosion of violence across the region,…

Each year I like to acknowledge some of the many people who have particularly impressed or influenced me, often to the point of changing my views on some areas of interest (and I can be quite stubborn..)

For 2023, here’s a snapshot of my appreciations:

#AIethics : Elke Schwarz…

ما الذي يمكن أن نتعلمه من تحديات #الوصول في ميانمار وإثيوبيا وسوريا بالنسبة للسودان؟ في مدونتنا الأخيرة، تناقش Emma Beals الدروس المستفادة من سياقات أخرى وتناقش الآثار المترتبة على وصول #العون الإنساني الحساس للنزاعات وتوطينه
لقراءة المدونة كاملة
csf-sudan.org/ar/towards-bet…
#السودان

Normally when a leader attempts to upend the extremely normal checks and balances seen in functioning democracies it is seen as....not good.

#Ceasefires aren't just pauses in violence but complex tools with broader implications. Our latest policy brief challenges conventional views and urges stakeholders to make more informed decisions in order to alleviate civilian suffering during wartime. ➡️bit.ly/3ThWrrd

And for those joining from This Is Not A Drill - formerly Doomsday Watch, here’s the piece referenced in the episode.

I spoke to the good folks at This Is Not A Drill - formerly Doomsday Watch about the proliferation of conflict globally, our current inability to resolve it, and what it means for the future.

A thousand times this (and not just on climate!)...

'At a time when humanitarian disasters are spiralling, they're not calling for more funding to respond to those crises but for others to do more to prevent them from happening in the first place.'

thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2023/1…

There are profound similarities between this recent paper by the excellent Adelina Kamal on the way forward for aid in Myanmar: centreforhumanitarianleadership.org/research/publi…

And this important overview from the recent civil-society-led Sudan Crisis event.

New systems/approaches are urgently needed.

NEW: 6 humanitarian groups met with Jake Sullivan today to discuss options to provide aid in Gaza.

The groups said a cease-fire was the only way to provide what's necessary. That's not admin policy, so they outlined other options to pursue. w/ Erin Banco politico.com/news/2023/11/2…

Top Legal Experts on Why Aid to Gaza Can't Be Conditioned on Hostage Release

- in response to recent remarks by US Official

Tom Dannenbaum
Janina Dill
Adil Haque
Yousuf Syed Khan
Michael Meier
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Jelena Pejic

#HamasIsraelWar #GenevaConventions
justsecurity.org/90196/top-expe…

I've been enjoying following updates from this civil society-led conference on revitalising the humanitarian response to the conflict in Sudan. Efforts to speed up a pivot in the aid response and to empower and fund local actors are urgent and vital.

What can we learn from other contexts with protracted humanitarian access challenges?

Emma Beals discusses lessons from Myanmar, Ethiopia and Syria for Sudan in the first blog of our new access, local action and conflict sensitivity blog series.

⬇️csf-sudan.org/towards-better…

Current flare-ups in the Middle East and elsewhere are a reminder that conflict can only be managed for so long—and as more people are displaced, the world urgently needs a new approach to resolving conflicts, write Peter Salisbury and Emma Beals.
trib.al/jObQ7w3

Dr. Tom Potokar, our chief surgeon in the European Hospital in #Gaza shares the situation of the healthcare workers and of those civilians affected.

'Is seeing so many destroyed lives, so many shattered bodies, burned bodies, particularly in children... this is such a tragedy'.