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Issue 87

Local leadership in a changing humanitarian architecture

A different way of working Every edition of Humanitarian Exchange begins with a question: whose perspectives shape the conversations that…
August 27, 2026
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Humanitarian AI revisited: Seizing the potential and sidestepping the pitfalls

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