In this Practitioner Profile, ATHA speaks with Sarah Martin, a gender-based violence specialist, about gender-based violence and programming for male caregivers and adolescent brothers of displaced Syrian refugee girls.

In this Practitioner Profile, ATHA speaks with Birthe Anders about the use of private military and security companies (PMSCs) in the humanitarian sector.

In this Practitioner Profile, ATHA speaks with Dr. Lina Abirafeh about challenges facing women in the Arab world, as well as responses to gender-based violence, support for survivors of violence, and other aspects of gender-sensitive programming in humanitarian emergencies.

Considering the ongoing atrocities in Syria, this episode will examine the prospects for accountability for war crimes and other serious violations of international law in Syria, including the particular case of the Yazidis.

In this Practitioner Profile, ATHA speaks with Pooya Rezai to examine how the humanitarian response in the Greek Islands has evolved and what challenges remain in the transition to more protracted displacement.

In this Practitioner Profile, ATHA interviews Michael Hofman to discuss the use of international humanitarian law as a framework for humanitarian negotiation, the pressures that current anti-terrorism laws place on humanitarians, and best practices for maintaining credibility in complex negotiations.

Through discussions with humanitarian practitioners about their experiences in the field, this episode will explore the role that laws and norms play in humanitarian negotiations.

This episode explores how humanitarian professionals working in frontline environments navigate myriad challenges and dilemmas in order to negotiate an operational space for engagement with armed groups.

Through discussions with experts and humanitarian practitioners, this episode will explore the impact of gender and other aspects of diversity on frontline humanitarian negotiations.

This panel discussion, organized in collaboration with the Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative, explores the opportunities and challenges of negotiating protections for medical missions at the frontline, focusing particularly on tools and methods to strengthen humanitarian operations and negotiation capacity in complex environments.

Humanitarian actors are increasingly finding themselves in contexts where the application of the norms and concepts of international humanitarian law (IHL) is contested.

In this Practitioner Profile, ATHA is joined by Dr. Jennifer Schirmer, a current fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, who has spent fourteen years working on peace-building and preparatory dialogue training in Colombia.

In this Practitioner Profile, ATHA is joined by Sareta Ashraph, Chief Analyst on the Commission of Inquiry on Syria since May 2012.

In this Practitioner Profile, ATHA speaks with Dr. Jemilah Mahmood, Under Secretary General for Partnerships at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), regarding her insights on the results and outcomes of the discussions and commitments at the World Humanitarian Summit.

This episode discusses the World Humanitarian Summit, which aimed to take stock of the achievements and failed interventions of a sector confronted with rapidly evolving challenges and recommit stakeholders to the foundational principles of humanitarian assistance, protection, and institutional reform.

In this episode, we examine opportunities for field professionals to identify the appropriate methods of monitoring and reporting violations of IHL committed by state and non-state actors in their operations.

In this episode, ATHA interviews Michaël Neuman about the drivers of professionalization in the context of humanitarian security, drawing on examples from a new book by the MSF-Crash team.

In this episode, we examine the barriers humanitarian organizations face as they try to access and assist the people in the Donbas region of Ukraine in need of humanitarian assistance.