This article offers an analysis of the humanitarian space. This working area, which has significantly changed over the past decades, entails to take into account the future of the humanitarian actor within the new international context. The main challenges are the organisational spectrum which shapes this actor and dilutes the humanitarian rhetoric and principles and the politisation of the humanitarian space. In fact, the reticence of the humanitarian actor to evolve in harmonization with the new international reality required to reconsider his role and existence in conflict area.