19.10.2017By Dr Wojciech Piotrowicz, Associate Professor in Sustainable Supply Chains, Social Responsibility and Humanitarian Logistics Poland, after economic transition, moved from being the beneficiary of the humanitarian aid to a [...]
2.10.2017 By Alain Vaillancourt, Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Coventry university What kits are Bozer and McGinnis define kits as “a specific collection of components and/or subassemblies that [...]
20.9.2017By Luke Muggy, Ph.D., winner of the HUMLOG Best Doctoral Thesis Award in 2017 Years of sectarian conflict have decimated Yemen’s infrastructure, leaving millions without access to clean water. Waste [...]
8.9.2017By Mohammad Moshtari, research fellow and lecturer at Hanken School of Economics After a disaster hits a region, a considerable number of NGOs becomes involved in humanitarian operations. For example, [...]
13.6.2017From Paul D. Larson, Ph.D., Professor and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Humlog Institute, Hanken On May 20, a Finnish aid worker was kidnapped in Kabul, Afghanistan. The dreadful incident included [...]
31.5.2017By Eija Susanna Meriläinen, Doctoral Student The Brexit vote, referendum in Turkey and Trump presidency. The waves of nationalist populism in the global North have awaken fears in the research [...]
17.5.2017By Virva Tuomala, Doctoral Student Towards the end of 2015, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi asked the Muslims of the world to join the fight for their cause of [...]
3.5.2017By Julia Muraszkiewicz, Research Analyst at Trilateral Research Ltd. Regrettably, loss and harm of humanitarian workers is a prevailing occurrence in the humanitarian conflict zones of today. One does [...]
20.4.2017(February 13th 2017)As a part of Humanitarian logistics course, 16 students had the opportunity to visit the Finnish Red Cross logistics centre in Kalkku, Tampere. Ari Mäntyvaara, logistic coordinator, was [...]
4.4.2017By Emily Gooding, winner of the HUMLOG best Master's thesis Award 2017 The response to the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak consumed hundreds of thousands of boots, examination gloves, and [...]