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Our Own Kind
I am basically a pretty patient person. And, I think, a pretty even-keeled, open-minded person, too. I think I do a fairly good job of not judging people, especially based on appearances. I’m good at...
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Actor
Much has been written over the past year about the growing reality of military organizations and entities increasingly becoming involved in humanitarian space, as humanitarian actors. If you look at...
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Between Arrogance & Defeat
One very hot day last February I was in an NGO-branded vehicle (it was a minivan, not a Landcruiser) with five colleagues, about half way between Port-au-Prince and Fond Parisenne. As those who have...
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Outsider
I can speak Vietnamese at level 10 in the Berlitz system. The Berlitz system goes to level 12. When I’m there, in Vietnam, I’m very comfortable not using English. I mostly speak northern, but...
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Protected: Lost in the Middle
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Protected: Whose aid is it, anyway?
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Church of Aid
From human emotions as diverse as love and greed, it is driven by impulses as opposed as responsibility and hedonism. It ennobles, just as surely as it corrupts. It gives meaning and it gives hope. Yet...
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Tolerance
I remember several months ago sitting in the Karachi airport McDonald’s chatting with @ayeshahasan about the foreigners who go to Pakistan and try to blend in by wearing a salwar kameez (yes, I know...
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Guest Post by ‘Angelica’
I’m pleased to feature a guest post by fellow aid worker/parent and blogger, Angelica, author of “On Motherhood & Sanity“, here today (also linked in my extended blogroll). Follow Angelica on...
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One
This weeks it’s the Tales From the Hood rock ‘n’ roll marathon. Here’s the first tune in the playlist: U2’s “One” sounds to me like a conversation between aid workers and beneficiaries about the issues...
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