virginie.troit

Virginie Troit is is an associate doctor at CERI following a doctoral thesis in International Relations entitled “Humanitarian Norms and Global South Organisations: the challenges of self-regulation. Experiences of the ECCO standard of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Africa (2009-2019)” defended at Sciences Po.

She is also the general director of the French Red Cross Foundation for research humanitarian and social since 2017 in continuity with the Red Cross Fund created in 2013 and member of the Steering Committee of the Red Cross Red Crescent Research Consortium (RC3). She joined the Red Cross Movement following eight years of experience within local and international NGOs (including Médecins sans Frontières and Handicap International).

Her work focuses on humanitarian action, its actors and networks, its representations and discourses, its standards and the articulation of local-global relation(ship)s. She is a board member of the International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA) and a member of the Group for Research on Multilateral Action (GRAM). Member of the Committee of the review Humanitarian Alternatives. she co-directs the Devenir humanitarian collection published by Karthala and has taught at the University of Friburg (Switzerland).

  • Teaching

    Master spécialisé Éthique, responsabilité et développement (Chaire francophone de travail social et politiques sociales de l’Université de Fribourg – Suisse) 2019

  • Web

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/virginie-troit-9a32933/

  • Languages

    French (natif), English (C2), German (C1), Spanish (A2), Arabic (A1)

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Main Publications

Transition humanitaire au Cameroun, Marie-Thérèse Mengue, Virginie Troit (dir.), Paris, Editions Karthala, 2023.

De la diplomatie humanitaire à la communication publique, in Christian Lequesne (dir.), La puissance par l’image. Les États et leur diplomatie publique, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, « L'enjeu mondial », 2021

The Humanitarian Transition in Lebanon, Marie-Noëlle Abyi Yaghi, Virginie Troit (dir.), Paris, Editions Karthala, 2020.

Entre local et global, les organisations humanitaires faces aux crises sanitaires mondiales, L’Economie politique, N°87 (3): 80-90, August 2020.

Principes d'éthiques, Virginie Troit, Jean-François Mattei, in Sandra Szurek, Marina Eudes, Philippe Ryfman (dir.) Traité de droit et pratique de l'action humanitaire, Paris, LGDJ editions, 2019.

The Humanitarian Transition in Madagascar, Thomas Fouquet, Virginie Troit (dir.), Paris, Editions Karthala, 2018.

Humanitarian ethics and international relations: contradictions or(re)conciliations ?, Humanitarian Alternatives, N° 3, November 2016.

A framework for the humanitarian transition in Ivory Coast, Francis Akindès, Virginie Troit, in Thomas Fouquet, Virginie Troit (dir.), Humanitarian Transition in Côte d'Ivoire, Paris, Editions Karthala, 2016.

La transition humanitaire, Jean-François Mattei, Virginie Troit, Médecine/Sciences 32 (2): 211–216, February 2016.

 

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