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Emergency Humanitarian Appeals and Gaza’s On-going Destruction: The Case of Failed Accountability and Sustainability

The PA continues to pose long lists of areas and needs without strategic thinking and analytical approaches that represent a framework to de-colonize Palestinian lands by investing in land, development and systems to challenge the economic constraints of the Israeli occupation. Some key questions for stakeholders moving forward, include whether international aid will continue to … Continue reading Emergency Humanitarian Appeals and Gaza’s On-going Destruction: The Case of Failed Accountability and Sustainability

“The Securitization of Fear in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka”

Fear is a potent political resource that is at once an expression of vulnerability to geopolitical threats and a rationale for security measures against them. It is produced through tropes of nationalism rooted in economic marginalization, loss of territory and anxieties about invasions of home. Such anxieties give rise to the securitization of fear used … Continue reading “The Securitization of Fear in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka”

“Siting Conflict and Peace in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia”

The article aims to analyse two policy narratives that were politicised in the context of post-tsunami response in Eastern Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia. These areas had been affected by war for several decades before the tsunami hit. The first narrative of public safety saw government imposition of post-tsunami buffer zones, ostensibly as measures to … Continue reading “Siting Conflict and Peace in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia”

Aid and Violence: Development Policies and Conflict in Nepal

  The Feinstein International Center is pleased to announce a new report:   Aid and Violence: Development Policies and Conflict in Nepal A Background Report by Francesca Bonino and Antonio Donini   The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) launched its “People’s War” in 1996. The Maoists’ rise to power was impressive by any standard. After … Continue reading Aid and Violence: Development Policies and Conflict in Nepal