What humanitarian aid might look like in 30 years time

He wanted to know if we could help come up with a response that would practically increase the resilience of communities to these shocks.

Negotiation frameworks do not include universal markers indicating the line that must not be crossed; and MSF must therefore pay attention to the developing dynamic of each situation and to its own ability to revoke compromises that were only acceptable because they were temporary.

So how could social labs help avert this apocalypse? There are three strategic responses based on the ideas presented in this book—stabilization, mitigation, and adaptation. Again, these are not silver bullets, but they demonstrate that practical responses are well within our means.

What startled me about the response to disaster was not the virtue, since virtue is often the result of diligence and dutifulness, but the passionate joy that shined out from accounts by people who had barely survived. These people who had lost everything, who were living in rubble or ruins, had found agency, meaning, community, immediacy in their

Not on preventing catastrophe, but simply surviving it; on keeping a tenuous thread of civilization going across the next many generations; on some of us getting through the horror and wreckage of it, to some other mode of living profoundly different from anything we know. This is the “hope beyond hope” that British writer and ecologist Paul Kingsn

Since the 1980s humanitarianism has undergone huge shifts in terms of culture, increasingly being driven by celebrities and global campaigns.