Much thanks to new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), including high-speed internet, smart phones and a variety of social media platforms, the development challenges in faraway lands, social justice issues at home and the distant suffering of others is merely a hashtag away or a scroll through your social media …
As Haiti once again finds itself on international news reports, it seems it is a good time to discuss to what extent Haiti’s struggle may be at the hands of the international community. Dubbed “the republic of NGOs”, Haiti attracts a lot of attention but for all the wrong reasons. …
There are days when studying communication for development leads to more questions than answers. It is a world of frameworks and acronyms, which at times seem to be misleading rather than guiding. With days like these, it helps to talk with other students – exchanging perspectives in a quest for …
A discussion of the New Humanitarian’s first-ever fictional story about how the aid sector may look in 30 years from now, by Malka Older. This is the second article in a three-part series discussing the New Humanitarian’s first-ever fictional story, “Earthquake relief. Mexico. 2051. A glimpse into tomorrow’s humanitarian world,” …
Figure 1 Arab and Western foreign ministers meet at Lancaster House in London to discuss Syria’s civil war on Oct. 22, 2013[1]. The Syrian crisis started in March 2011, when a group of civilians protested asking for a reformation and a change. The Syrian regime faced these protests with hostile …
A discussion of the New Humanitarian’s first-ever fictional story about how the aid sector may look in 30 years from now, by Malka Older. In August this year, the New Humanitarian published its first-ever fictional story, “Earthquake relief. Mexico. 2051. A glimpse into tomorrow’s humanitarian world,” by Malka Older. The …
On September 28th, Greta Thunberg takes the stage at the Youth for Climate meeting in Milan, Italy. She readjusts the microphones, commenting that she is too small to talk at the same height the previous speaker did, and starts her speech. Her talk, straightforward in the style Greta is known …
The Developmentality blog aims to critically examine the development sector and the systems and structures that shape it, discuss inherited inequalities, and amplify the voices of marginalized people and communities . To do so, it will critically discuss and examine the development sector and the discord between the practice of …
