Dr Andrea Steinke

Title:	Research Associate
Email:	andrea.steinke@egilstein.de

Andrea Steinke is a Research Associate at the Centre for Humanitarian Action (CHA). She has been working and researching the dynamics and challenges of humanitarian aid for 15 years. In her PhD thesis, she analysed questions of professionalism and faith using the example of the humanitarian intervention in Haiti. She has also researched the role of the Brazilian military in the context of the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) on topics such as South-South cooperation, the legitimacy of interventions and stabilisation, and civil-military cooperation. At CHA, she initially led the research project on the triple nexus and subsequently until June 2024 the research project on climate change and humanitarian change. In this context, she advised international NGOs and ministries. Her research interests also include the critical reflection of principled humanitarian aid, the anthropology of humanitarian aid and humanitarian decision-making structures.

Andrea has research experience in Haiti and Brazil, Macedonia, Germany and Mali.

Andrea speaks German, English, Haitian Creole, French and Portuguese.

CHA Publications:

2024: Policy brief – Loss and Damage for Humanitarians

2023: Climate change and humanitarian change

2021: Whose health matters?

2021: The Triple Nexus in Mali: Coordination, Securitisation and Blurred Lines

2020: The Triple Nexus in Practice: Challenges and Options for Multi-Mandated Organisations

2020: Haiti Ten Years After Douz Janvye