What humanitarian aid might look like in 30 years time
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What humanitarian aid might look like in 30 years time
What if the global community, facing existential threats, had to decide which aspects of their culture and identity to preserve in a digital vault — and which to leave behind? Who gets to make those decisions, and what does it mean for future generations?
Abril Chimal • Speculative Futures of Humanitarian Aid — IFRC Solferino Academy
if we consider that humanitarian aid is not an exact science but an art, then the essence of this art is to create and maintain the conditions of its existence—to generate interest, make itself useful, identify conjunctures that could be propitious for change—and to be capable at all times of modifying the balance of power, creating a hiatus, perma
... See moreMichael Neuman • Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience
Should we conclude from these events that the “humanitarian space” is shrinking, as many observers of the humanitarian scene have been claiming in recent years? NGOs, United Nations agencies and donors are unanimous in deploring a “growing tendency to close the door to humanitarians, preventing them from helping victims”.