Anna
@peppermintsoda
Anna
@peppermintsoda
“that blurry, but very real, line beyond which assistance for victims imperceptibly turns into support for their tormenters”.
Adaptation and resilience will have to be revisited through the creation of grounded, situated, and pervasive design capacity by communities themselves who are bound together through culture and a common will to survive when confronted with threatening conditions, not by global experts, bureaucrats, and geoengineers who can only recommend the
... See moreBecause acknowledging that humanitarian aid is only possible when it coincides with the interests of the “powers that be” does not have to mean giving way to political forces.
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”.
Refugees, IDPs, & Identity in the Republic of Georgia
understand how their identity/position is treated post-conflict — not only materially, but also socially