Harnessing economics for humanitarian action with Gilles Carbonnier

In this episode, Gilles Carbonnier joined the #NextPagePod for a conversation about applying economic tools and methods to improve humanitarian responses to armed conflicts and disasters.  

Carbonnier is a specialist in the domain of humanitarian response with expertise on several levels. Carbonnier is a Professor of Development Economics at the Graduate Institute whose research focuses mainly on the economics of humanitarian crises and the Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Carbonnier also has vast experience as a practitioner in the field of humanitarian missions, in countries including Iraq and Egypt. In this episode, the economist explains how these levels of humanitarian work corporate and especially how economics can contribute to a better understanding of the side effects and contributions of humanitarians.

Carbonnier also explained economics can bring valuable contributions to solving armed conflicts in interdisciplinary dialogue with phycologists, anthropologists, historians, and political scientists.  

 

Resources: 

Follow Carbonnier on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gcarbonniericrc 

Read more about Carbonnier: https://www.icrc.org/en/person/gilles-carbonnier 

Humanitarian Economics: War, Disaster, and the Global Aid Market: https://bit.ly/3xbYsqG 

Rebel Economies: Warlords, Insurgents, Humanitarians: https://bit.ly/3vc75Qw 

Reason, emotion, compassion: can altruism survive professionalisation in the humanitarian sector: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25439560/ 

The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith: https://www.adamsmith.org/the-theory-of-moral-sentiments 

Households in Conflict Network: https://hicn.org/ 

Cash Learning Partnership: https://www.calpnetwork.org/ 

Centre for Economic Policy Research: https://cepr.org/ 

Transcript: Here 

Content: 

Speakers: Gilles Carbonnier & Francesco Pisano

Host: Katrine Lyngso

Editor & Producer: Katrine Lyngso

Social media designs: Katrine Lyngso 

Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva