The Good Humanitarian

Can humanitarians ever be neutral?


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Returning guests Professor Thea Hilhorst and Dr Rodrigo Mena join us for this fifth and final episode of this season where together we will look at everything from the meaning of neutrality, how it works in practice, its challenges as well as some examples. As one of the key principles underpinning the humanitarian field and with an increasingly polarised world, what does it mean to be neutral and how does this look in a field made up of people with inherent human characteristics made up of values, emotions and ideologies?

In the podcast we also question: What makes a "good" humanitarian? We would like to hear from you. Leave a comment here or via social media.


The Good Humanitarian is a podcast by The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre (HSC), based at the International Institute of Social Studies, part of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Stay up to date by following the HSC on LinkedIn, Bluesky and check out our website: https://www.humanitarianstudiescentre.nl/

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