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[CRASH-CONFERENCE] MSF and Humanitarian Negotiations for Access in the DRC - Myfanwy James

We were pleased to welcome Myfanwy James, historian and lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Oxford, to present and discuss her thesis entitled “Instruments of Identity: Médecins Sans Frontières and Humanitarian Negotiations for Access in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (RDC)”. The event was prepared and moderated by Michaël Neuman (Crash) with the participation of Dr. Léon Salamu (MSF). Result of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in North Kivu amongst Médecins Sans Frontières teams as well as an exploration of the organization’s archives, Myfanwy’s thesis analyses the experience of MSF’s Congolese employees who must navigate the complex politics of humanitarian brokerage. What is their role in humanitarian negotiations? How do they balance between one identity and another, as employees of a humanitarian organization and as people immersed in the conflicts that have been affecting the region for decades? What is the specific situation of women? Myfanwy shows how MSF’s Congolese employees embody the many contradictions that are present in humanitarian work, including the simultaneous need for operational “proximity” while also maintaining adequate distance from daily conflict processes. Her thesis allows us to better understand the everyday practices of security management and negotiations for access conducted by organizations such as Médecins Sans Frontières. This work also comes at a time when inequality and diversity are at the forefront of discussions within the humanitarian sector, and her reflections are essential to understanding issues of “colonial continuities” in humanitarian action. Contents: 00:00 Introduction 05:06 Presentation of the research work 12:37 Main arguments of the thesis 15:11 The issue of identities 19:43 The experience of MSF Congolese employees in humanitarian brokerage 24:52 “The donkey rule” 32:38 “Play around gender and the third sex” 36:59 The “délocalisés” 40:04 Differentiation and categorization 49:47 Question 1: Questioning the humanitarian principles 57:28 Question 2: The different registers in negotiation 1:06:36 Question 3: The transposability of the work to other contexts 1:08:36 Question 4: Recruitment and internal practices of the organization 1:14:59 Question 5: Security depending on the category of staff 1:18:47 Questions 6 and 7: Risk exposure for MSF workers. The 3rd sex 1:24:15 Question 8: Identity as a barrier to professional development 1:27:38 Question 9: Women in the organization 1:31:10 Question 10: Decategorizing the staff 1:33:49 Question 11: The dialogue with the teams 1:35:48 Question 12: Decolonization 1:40:56 Question 13: Divergence between the MSF sections 1:44:32 Reflections on “Mission France” 1:47:03 Conclusion 👉 Link to our website: https://msf-crash.org/eng Subscribe to our channel here:    / @lafondationmsf4534   Follow the Crash on social media: Facebook :   / msf.crash   Twitter :   / msf_crash   LinkedIn :   / msf-crash