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Peacebuilding tends to focus too much on economic development and too little on addressing the underlying causes that created the violence or meeting the needs of victims/survivors, and those who suffered the most from the violence.
F.M.H. • The Power of The Infra-Ordinary
Eleven years after the civil war and genocide that took place in Rwanda in 1994, the world embraced the Responsibility to Protect doctrine (commonly referred to as R2P), which in principle provides a basis for interventions by other countries or regional or global organizations (be it with words, sanctions, or even military force) in situations in
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VSD never questions the standpoint of the professional designer, doesn’t call for community inclusion in the design process (let alone community accountability or control),
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
The incongruity of the source of our problems, which are global – but where cause and effect are not directly visible – and the institutions of justice, which are, by and large, limited to the sovereign nation, requires that the sacred notion of the singular sovereign has to be restructured or give way to be shared with regional and global entities
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