Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2025

The limits of decolonizing an international humanitarian organization. "Decoloniality" as a new guiding principle?

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By 2025, the share of international staff from the Global South (and in particular Africa) within the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has reached nearly 50%. By changing the relationship to time, authority, abuse, management or gender, this "southernization" of staff generates tensions and internal criticism. Based on participant observation and semi-structured interviews, we question the possibility of a decolonization of aid by assessing the extent to which these new members can depart from relations of domination and/or propose their own ways of thinking and acting. As a conclusion, we suggest decoloniality as a new guiding humanitarian principle.

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hal-05187156 , version 1 (25-07-2025)

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Ludovic Joxe. The limits of decolonizing an international humanitarian organization. "Decoloniality" as a new guiding principle?. Southernization of the development aid sector, Société des Africanistes, Feb 2025, Paris, France. ⟨hal-05187156⟩
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