2017 Research Prize Laureates

October 2017

Since 2015, the French Red Cross Foundation (formerly the French Red Cross Fund) has awarded prizes to the researchers it supports, in partnership with the AXA Research Fund. Each laureate is filmed to introduce both themselves and their work. Gilles Carbonnier is a Swiss teacher-researcher. A professor of development economics, he is currently Director of Studies at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and also Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. He has over 20 years of experience in international trade, development cooperation and humanitarian action. He has also served as an ICRC delegate in Iraq, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia and El Salvador, and then as economic adviser to the organisation. His most recent book, Humanitarian Economics – War, Disaster and the Global Aid Market (2015), analyses humanitarian crises and the response of aid actors from an economic perspective. Séverine Autesserre is a French researcher, Associate Professor at Columbia University in New York, specialising in peacekeeping and peacebuilding. She has conducted several research and field studies in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where she has taken an ethnographic approach to the practice of "peacebuilders." Several of her publications have received prizes and awards in the United States. Assaf Dahdah is a young postdoctoral researcher who wrote a geography thesis on migrant workers on the margins of Beirut, earning him three prizes. Keenly interested in the dynamics of long- and short-range migrations stemming from conflict, Assaf Dahdah continues his research on migration trajectories from Lebanon. He now studies the journeys and settlement of refugees in the major Turkish migration-crossroad cities (Istanbul and Gaziantep).