Extreme Testing in Celebrity Disasters

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Extreme Testing in Celebrity Disasters

• The Insurgency of tsunami and global projection

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What do we want to learn about?

• The Normal
• Expectations V Reality
• The Extreme

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Extreme Funding

1. Great media event
2. Its Christmas
3. Personal connections
4. No ones to blame
5. Its not Iraq
6. The internet is here

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Extreme Geography
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Extreme politics

• Iraq
• GWOT
• WTO

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Extreme response

• Assistance
• Protection
• Livelihoods
• Development side by side with Rehabilitation

Photos courtesy of USAID
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Spreading waves of concern

1. The individuals, communities political economy
   
2. Regional coherence
3. Global humanitarianism internal
4. Global humanitarianism external

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Aceh hidden conflict

• Furious with international aid organisations
• No context analysis of conflict
• Population control camps in counter insurgency
• Learn from Central America

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Sri Lanka, a divided community

• On top of 20 years of war
• Where you are is what you get
• North v South v East
• 200m zone
• No understanding of cast

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Reconstruction vacation-land

• A second tsunami of corporate globalization and
  militarization
• "a wonderful opportunity" that "has paid great
  dividends for us.
• Hidden victims 60,000 Burmese

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India

• Vibrant Civil society
• Experienced NGOs
• Wariness of international agencies

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What to evaluate in each country?

1. Context analysis, use and application
2. What if community lead rehabilitation
3. Who gains who looses in rehabilitation
4. Saving lives and livelihoods

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What to evaluate in the region

• Adaptation

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Pledge or reality?
SourceAlertnet
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Global Pledges Reality
Source OCHA-FTS. Walker et al, BMJ 2005
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Pledged, but against what?
Source OCHA-FTS
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Committed or paid up?
Source Development Initiatives
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Proportionality
Source OCHA-FTS
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Aid Trade Flows
Figures from June 2005
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The international aid system
Public 2B
CBOs
USA EU UK Etc 5B
BINGOs Red Cross
UN
Nat Gov
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Funding

• What does a pledge mean?
• Can we track all donations?
• Relationship between assessment and funding?
• Bigger picture fund flows, the role of the
  internet

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Global impartiality?

• Global proportionality impartiality

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Driving agendas
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The Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction
and Stabilization

• To help stabilize and reconstruct societies in
  transition from conflict or civil strife
• Its about changing the very social fabric of a
  nation.

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Driving agenda

• How did all these agendas impact response
  agencies?
• Acting on skewed assumptions

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