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L'évolution vers un financement plus conséquent des acteurs locaux, et d'une meilleure appropriation par ces derniers de l'action humanitaire entreprise dans leur pays, représente un changement majeur pour celle-ci. Pourtant, il n'est pas sûr qu'elle y gagne en efficacité. A partir du cas syrien, cet article explore l'action humanitaire locale et sa relation avec la communauté internationale. Il montre que les organisations locales syriennes sont un acteur primordial de l'humanitaire à l'intérieur des frontières syriennes. Celles-ci révèlent un potentiel remarquable pour une action humanitaire plus adaptée, plus efficace et plus durable, ce qui va dans le sens des arguments en faveur d'une relocalisation de cette action. Toutefois, la concrétisation de ce potentiel dépend lourdement de la façon dont les ONG internationales envisagent leurs relations avec ces organisations locales.

Geneva is the symbol of a continuing placing between the possible and the desirable. To tend towards a pacified world is its objective. Before reaching this objective, would it be necessary to legislate the rules of warfare, in other words: to "humanize" warfare? The fact that the seat of oldest and most important humanitarian organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross, is located at avenue de la paix (Peace Street), is a symbol and a response regarding the attempt to conciliate between two complementary policies: searching for peace, and the regulation/humanization of armed conflicts. The article studies two contradictory ideas, constructed in parallel starting at the age of Enlightenment: 1) pacification through law and the creation of international organizations, and 2) humanization of the war, and examines their development around the two world wars, with the construction of the United Nations and its strategic center in Geneva, the base of numerous international conferences relating to disarmament and the ending of conflicts. As for humanitarian actions, they have become a means of peace strategy with increasing integration into Chapter VII of the UN Chart. Symbolically, Geneva is the place where the focus on these two ideals is of its highest level; peace and humanitarian action, sometimes contradictory, sometimes complementary, the balance of which at last seems to tend toward the latter, thus given reason to Henry Dunant. O. van Zijl