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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: How COVID-19 is Forcing a Reckoning for Humanitarians
Description: In the short history of modern humanitarianism, great crises have often inspired reform in how the international community approaches emergency situations.  Jessica Alexander wrote a sweeping review of how big crises over the last thirty years have compelled the humanitarian aid sector to change how it operates. Her article culminates with a discussion of how the current COVID crisis is forcing a new kind of reckoning in the aid sector. Jessica Alexander is a longtime humanitarian worker and editor of The New Humanitarian's Rethinking Humanitarian Series, which is where her article appears. She is also th...