Hugo Slim on Crises Today, Climate Change, and the Evolution of the Humanitarian Sector

Host Jamie McGoldrick speaks with Hugo Slim, Senior Research Fellow at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, on a wide range of topics. They discuss crises in Haiti, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, and the challenges in providing assistance to those countries. Hugo talks about how humanitarian aid has grown over the last several decades, describing the positives and negatives which have come from that growth. Jamie asks Hugo about the difficulty in speaking out as a humanitarian worker, when it could mean losing access to populations in need of help. Finally, the pair consider the ramifications climate change will have and how that will impact the humanitarian sector in the future.