Aid Workers in the Spotlight, Part II: The Satirical Meme of the Humanitarian Work

When digging digital development among aid workers, the use of social media could be a way to connect with each other, unifying as a community and strengthening the solidarity with each other. Memes being one of the uses on social media in which they can share their frustration in the …

Aid Workers in the Spotlight, Part I: Aid Workers and Mental Health

In three coming blog posts and an upcoming podcast with my blogging peers, I would like to raise the issue of mental health, self-awareness and self-criticism on an individual and collective level among aid workers. The academic world agrees (see for. e.g. Ager 2012 [1], Hor, 2017 [2], McPherson et …

Digital Peacebuilding: Making silent Voices to be heard

Since the promotion of “ICT4Peace” started at the beginning of the 21st century (Hattotuwa 2004: 22), the peacebuilding sector has been increasingly enhanced with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), centred around the question how ICT can be integrated in peace processes by mediators constructively in order to increase …