SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Overview

Department of Development Studies

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Violence, Peace and Development Research Cluster

Research Cluster Member

Name:

Ms Marion Péchayre

Email address:

mp57@soas.ac.uk

Thesis title:

International non-governmental organisations and the politics of “triage” in conflict and natural disasters settings - Pakistan 2004-2012

Year of Study:

Year of Entry 2010

Internal Supervisors

• Laura Hammond

Biography

Marion has been a humanitarian practitioner for a few years working for an international NGO in several countries including Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Myanmar. She is now dedicating most of her time to research and teaching at SOAS and Sciences Po Paris also being a part time consultant for international humanitarian project assessments, evaluations, and support on team management.

PhD Research

The project is examining INGOs’ “triage” practices in conflict settings and in particular in Pakistan. It relies on the assumption that humanitarian triage is to be analysed from the perspective of social practices if its political rationality is to be decrypted. To this end the research will adopt a qualitative methodology, relying on socio anthropological analysis to critically analyse INGOs in conflict settings in relations to all the other actors they encounter and understand the complexity of what influences and constrains them. In particular their relationship to the International Humanitarian Apparatus is considered as a proxy for the position INGOs claim to have towards the dominant political order.

PhD Publications

“Humanitarian Action in Pakistan 2005-2010”, Boston: Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, January 2011. https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/FIC/Humanitarian+Action+in+Pakistan+2005-2010

“The Pakistan floods: chronic malnutrition exposed”, in 2011 World Disasters focus on Report on hunger and malnutrition, Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, September 2011. http://www.ifrc.org/publications-and-reports/world-disasters-report/wdr2011/

“Politics, rhetoric and practices of humanitarian action in Pakistan”, chapter in Donini, Antonio Ed., “The golden fleece”, manipulation and independence in humanitarian action, Kumarian Press, Forthcoming 2012

PhD Conferences

‘Politics, Rhetoric and Practices of Humanitarian Action in Pakistan’, on the panel ‘Humanitarian Action and “Instrumentalisation”’ at the World Conference on Humanitarian Studies, Boston, June 2011

Humanitarian Targeting and the Daily Practices of INGOs, Conference on Humanitarianism, Past, Present and Future, hosted by the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), University of Manchester, 8-10 November 2012

“Humanitarian Triage” and the Daily Practices of Médecins Sans Frontières in Pakistan, in Conference «Triage, sorting and  selection  in Medicine. Logics, Practices, Values» hosted by 2012 Université Paris Diderot, 19 - 20 November 2012