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This analysis explores how humanitarian crises are not seen or oversimplified, highlighting the impact of silence on understanding conflict.
This week I am teaching on how humanitarian crises are understood and seen, or more often, not seen. In a prior note, ‘the meaning grinder’, I considered the perverse dynamic in which conflict is flattened out and turned into content. It ended with gesturing towards the value of silence.
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