be mapped out through the embodiments of the sacred, from the body of Christ and its sacred positioning within Christianity, to the body of the hero whose sacrifice was so integral to the modern nation-state, on to the victim, who became the sacred object for liberal rule. 11 However, countering Girard’s mythical assertion that the sacred allows us to domesticate violence by giving immense meaning to life, what we can alternatively say is there would be no possible way to justify any form of political violence without the sacred object and its worldly claims. Just
Introduction The UK government’s controversial decision to disband the Department for International Development (DfID) in June 2020 drew widespread condemnation ( UK Government Spending Review, 2020 ). However, two weeks prior to its merger with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, DfID published a new Theory of Change (ToC) on mental health for the international development sector – its last stand as a unitary body ( DfID, 2020 ). Despite the importance of the
you can diagnose an awful lot of things with that. Obviously, you can look inside body cavities to see if people are bleeding, and even run them over bones to see if they are fractured. TRM: Since when have they been around? TR: In common practice in the last ten years. But the more portable ones were coming in the mid-1990s, but you still had to wheel them in. Then they got lighter after that, and now the technology is very good, to the extent that it
process itself – and, ultimately, the relationships we cultivated. On Artist–Academic Collaborations The potential benefits of artist–academic collaborations are multifaceted, and their contributions can vary from communication to methodological development to growing networks to theory building ( Pahl et al. , 2017 ). Often, the incentive to collaborate with artists in order to demonstrate non-academic impact comes from funding bodies
days around 150 bodies were collected from the hospital and Kalibalik area, adding to the 200 bodies estimated to have been removed from the mosque on 15 April. By 22 April, over 22,500 civilians were seeking protection in the PoC site. That number, well beyond the site’s capacity, only grew in the following months. It reached over 40,000 after government forces reclaimed Bentiu in early May. The SPLA’s control of the city was accompanied by constant harassment and abuse
Directors (the decision-making body at MdM) advised against the creation of the position, in the belief that relying on local expertise was preferable and fearing that an outsider’s security assessments would threaten the existence of the programmes. Three people would hold the position of security advisor in turn before I took it six years later, in February 2012. The position had been vacant for nearly a year. The human resources department had struggled to find suitable
–military focal point b) Other staff-designated focal point c) Security-management staff member d) In-country leadership e) There is no one within the responding organisation who currently fulfils this role. 5. If respondent is working for an operational organisation, how many dedicated civil–military staff are deployed? Number____ 6. Number of days from the disaster event to the establishment of an in-country coordination body for civil–military coordination, i.e. Multi-National Military Coordination Centre (MNMCC). Number____ 7. Number of days an in
portfolio, in 2011 we funded a body of early-stage innovations across multiple technical humanitarian sectors and problem areas. With the humanitarian innovation agenda relatively immature, it was necessary to put money into the system to foster creativity, generate promising ideas and gain momentum. This led to a wide and dispersed portfolio. Now, at the time of writing in 2019, working closely with sector experts, strategic partners and the humanitarian innovation community, our funding is deliberately and purposively aligned to our key thematic areas of focus – water
situation was desperate – approximately 30 residents in serious condition with respiratory failure, agitation and severe dehydration. A few staff were taking care of the last transfers of patients to the hospital and the management of dead bodies. And we humbly begin to do our work. First is to sort out who is who, where is everyone, which are the ones that need to be attended to most urgently, which are
(Action Contre La Faim/AAH) as Country Director in Bangladesh from 2012 to 2014; a statement from AAH in 2018 said that the charity had ‘received no information regarding any inappropriate or unethical behaviour by Roland van Hauwermeiren while he was with Oxfam in Haiti, or any warning on the risks of employing him’ ( AAH, 2018 ). The Charity Commission, the British regulatory body that oversees charitable organisations, launched an inquiry and issued an