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Advancing disaster risk communications
Earth-Science Reviews, volume 249, issue 104677 (2024), 14 pp.
"Effective communication of disaster threats to decision makers and at-risk communities is a growing challenge in a people-centred approach to disaster risk reduction. Traditional communication approaches tend to involve either top-down risk management practices or bottom-up community health and edu
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Recommendations for strengthening communication and community engagement in the Libya floods response
London: CDAC Network (2024), 7 pp.
"This bulletin summarises the key findings and recommendations for strengthening collective efforts on communication and community engagement in the Libya floods response. The findings are drawn from a qualitative consultation with more than 30 representatives from the humanitarian community conduct
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Spreading Like Wildfire: The Securitization of the Amazon Rainforest Fires on Twitter
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 91-111
"As a tool of political communication and information diffusion, social media has transformed the process of securitization, allowing (in)security messages to spread and scale up rapidly. Focusing on the case of the Amazon rainforest fires in 2019, this article seeks to answer two questions: How doe
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Pathways for strengthening community feedback and complaints approaches in Papua New Guinea
London: CDAC Network (2024), 5 pp.
"Acknowledging the contextual challenges in Papua New Guinea, CDAC recommends the following actions to UNDP and other response organisations to strengthen approaches to two-way communication with communities in disaster response activities. 1. Utilise the newly established Community of Practice for
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Conjuring a Blockchain Pilot: Ignorance and Innovation in Humanitarian Aid
Geopolitics (2024), 28 pp.
"When aid professionals adopt high tech pilot projects, ignorance, blind faith, misplaced trust, and authentic expertise all come into play. Based on ethnographic research in Jordan, I examine how a refugee aid organisation produces and applies a blockchain pilot. Innovative pilots help internationa
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Disaster Management: The Standards Perspective
Geneva: ITU (2024), viii, 14 pp.
The state of communication, community engagement and accountability across the Ukraine response. Snapshot report
London: CDAC Network, 4th ed. (2023), 12 pp.
Communication, community engagement and accountability in Sudan’s regional response: Outcomes of the high-level meeting to discuss elevating collective CCEA in the regional Sudan conflict response
CDAC Network (2023), 5 pp.
"Despite the strides made towards strengthening two-way communication and dialogue in the regional response to the Sudan crisis, there remain critical gaps inhibiting the effectiveness of collective efforts. The Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) and the Regional Refugee Response Plan should allocate
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Chatbots in Humanitarian Contexts: Learning from Practitioner Experiences
Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); The Engine Room (2023), 31 pp.
"Since the mid-2010s, chatbots have grown in usage and popularity across the humanitarian sector. While this usage has gained traction, there is scarce information on the collective successes, risks, and trade-offs of this automation. This research addresses this gap, documenting chatbot deployments
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Breaking the Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2022
London: Care International (2023), 28 pp.
"Our 2022 report shows that all of the most under-reported crises are now in Africa. Hunger is rampant and spreading, particularly in East Africa where one of the worst droughts in living memory is causing over 21 million people to face life-threatening hunger. Water becomes scarcer every day, crops
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Using Videos in Floods and Bushfires to Educate, Signal Risk, and Promote Protectice Action in the Community
Safety Science, volume 164, issue 106166 (2023), 13 pp.
"Videos are commonly used by emergency services agencies in natural hazard emergencies to communicate to the public about the hazard, its possible risks, and to promote protective action. To evaluate the efficacy of the videos being disseminated and amplified during an event, this research examined
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Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 127 pp.
"Based on a 5-year study, involving over 150 in-depth interviews, this book examines the political, economic and social forces that sustain and influence humanitarian journalists. The authors argue that – by amplifying marginalised voices and providing critical, in-depth explanations of neglected
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Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints: How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2023), 291 pp.
