In this paper, we argue that the major obstacle for crisis scholars stems from a conceptual ambiguity on the notion of

crisis itself. There is an apparent contradiction between two views of the crisis, namely crisis as an event vs. crisis as a

process. This issue leads to some contradictions into the literature: while most of us appear to agree on the fact that crises are processes, we nevertheless often treat them as events. We aim at disentangling the two views.