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“that blurry, but very real, line beyond which assistance for victims imperceptibly turns into support for their tormenters”.
Michael Neuman • Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience
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
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Because 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.
Michael 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”.
Michael Neuman • Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience
Historical content can be an incredibly informative resource, telling us how people lived and thought. But we must remember that it’s a small fraction of contemporaneous material that survives, even as we hope, of course, that it’s our own existence that is ultimately memorialized. Sometimes it is through the gaps that we read history or are forced... See more
s.e. smith • What happens when the internet disappears?
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Therefore, whilst dealing with post-conflict communities subject to a transition from negative to a positive peace , individual and social, past and present memories, require empathy and trustworthy responses .
Theory | uniformnovember
Refugees, IDPs, & Identity in the Republic of Georgia
understand how their identity/position is treated post-conflict — not only materially, but also socially