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But by treating people without challenging the political and social origins of their exclusion, is MSF not confining itself to the role expected of it by the authorities?
Michael Neuman • Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience
International efforts to assist refugees largely fall into four areas. The first and most basic is to prevent the conditions that create refugees (or to alter the conditions if they do).
Richard Haass • The World
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
History can weigh like a millstone; archaic distinctions and practices can drag upon our freedom and agency. But detachment from the past has its own pitfalls. It means that the past that survives is a default genealogy, a mere reflection of the status quo, fixed and irrelevant. It loses its living value, its capacity to help the current generation
... See moreLizzie O'Shea • Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
Refugees, IDPs, & Identity in the Republic of Georgia
it would be interesting to explore how idps are detached from history and their past. i think the answer is obvious that they’re not, but as a whole, it seems that georgia is detaching from its past — it would be cool to see the impact of that in context of idps. i guess that means i’d have to interview both idps and others
We have more public information than ever, but what if there is also less transmission of more personal information between people—especially between generations. What is lost if our digital heirlooms become inaccessible to close relatives? What is lost if estates do not donate prominent people's cloud data to university archives?
Charlie Warzel • Confessions of an Information Hoarder
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
Has the intervention been conceived with Max-Neef’s theory of needs in mind? If so, what needs does it satisfy? Are they synergistic? • Is the intervention ‘synergistic’ ; meaning does it solve for more than one issue connected to the problem at a time? • What are the main barriers to its implementation/success? • How long could/should the interven... See more
Irwin • Future Visions Present Developing Ecologies of Interventions in the Present
evolving. Chaotic situations—such as a humanitarian disaster—often require that we act quickly to save lives or tend to emergencies before working to establish some sense of order. They call for a rapid response to distribute information and resources to where they are needed most, before addressing the underlying issues.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
ideology, ignorance, and inertia—the three I’s—on the part of the expert, the aid worker, or the local policy maker, often explain why policies fail and why aid does not have the effect it should.