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Professor of Political Science, Co-editor of the CIHA Blog
Biography
Cecelia Lynch is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, and co-editor of the Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa (CIHA) blog. She is the 2025 Distinguished Scholar of the Religion and International Relations (REL) Section of the International Studies Association.
Publications
How can we conceive of the decolonization of humanitarianism? If such a decolonization project were ever to be undertaken, what means would be necessary to bring it to a successful conclusion? In the …
Read the articleIn this contribution, I call for centering “global humanitarianism” in Africa. I take global humanitarianism to include what Alex de Waal in 1997 termed “the humanitarian international”; i.e., “the tr…
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