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Virginie Troit

Associate Research Fellow

Center for International Studies (CERI)

Duration: from 24 May 2023 to 23 May 2026

Research Interest(s): Ethics, Governance, Multilateralism, Standards, International organisations, Transnational networks, Civil society

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations

Research Group(s): Art, humanities, and international research, International order, foreign policy, diplomacy, Violence, war and peace

Geographical Area(s): Central Africa, East Africa and The Horn, Global realm , Middle East, West Africa

Language(s): French, English, German, Spanish, Arabic (Moroccan)

Biography

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).

Thesis topic

Normes humanitaires et organisations humanitaires du Sud : les enjeux de l’autorégulation. Expériences de la norme ECCO de la Fédération internationale des sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge en Afrique (2009-2019), sous la direction de Frédéric Ramel

Teaching

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

publications

  • Julien Antouly, Vincent Leger, Camille Raillon, Virginie Troit. The challenges of research in the humanitarian sector: An evolving relationship. International Review of the Red Cross, 2024, 106 (926), pp.525-541. ⟨10.1017/S1816383124000523⟩. ⟨hal-04980255⟩
  • Virginie Troit. De la diplomatie humanitaire à la communication publique. Christian Lequesne. La puissance par l'image. Les Etats et leur diplomatie publique, Presses de Sciences Po, pp.172 - 173, 2021, 9782724627251. ⟨hal-03380916⟩
  • Leonardo W Heyerdahl, Muriel Vray, Vincent Leger, Lénaig Le Fouler, Julien Antouly, et al.. Evaluating the motivation of Red Cross Health volunteers in the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study protocol. BMJ Open, 2021, 11 (1), pp.e042579. ⟨10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042579⟩. ⟨pasteur-03263681⟩
  • Virginie Troit. Entre local et global, les organisations humanitaires face aux crises sanitaires mondiales. L'Économie politique, 2020, 2020/3 (87), pp.80 - 90. ⟨10.3917/leco.087.0080⟩. ⟨hal-03380887⟩

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