Rethink Fragility: Recent Episodes
Ian D. Quick
“It was something of a leap of faith, because I wasn’t sure how much traction there would be. Or if people would be concerned about what came to the surface.” Nick van Praag founded and runs an organisation called Ground Truth Solutions. They work with people affected by crises to get their feedback and
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“You know, it’s always frightening for me to go to a performance. I always feel like I’m on fire.” Hani al Rstum is a Syrian living in Lebanon’s second city of Tripoli, and the conductor for the SADA playback theatre troupe. They engage with communities affected by serious conflict, with the goal of recognising
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“This was the peak, and this was the shock. I always compare this to 9-11 in the city of Tripoli, this twin explosion that took place.” Tripoli, Lebanon’s second city, has experienced considerable violence ever since the end of the national civil war in 1990. But this escalated dramatically with the onset of the
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“90% of the time it didn’t go how I wanted it to. But 10% of the time it did, and often I look back and think, ‘Actually, those were the key moments’.” Christine Williamson runs a consultancy firm called Duty of Care International, and has spent twenty years in human resources management in the
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“I can always travel the world, and try to save the world. But it’s my own space that I need to learn to save first, and to work on.” This is an interesting contrast with our last episode (#012). There we spoke with a former fighter during the Lebanese civil war, who had to
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“This would be enough for me. A second of hesitation when the drums of war start playing. One second of hesitation.” Assaad Chaftari is best-known in Lebanon for an open letter in 2000, in which he apologised for what he’d done with the Lebanese Forces, a prominent Christian militia responsible for its share of
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“She spent seven years of savings to travel to Syria. You can imagine the propaganda of ISIS people, bringing Syria into her house. Bringing it into her mind.” Siti Darojatul Aliah — Dete to her friends — is a researcher and activist who works on violent extremism in Indonesia. Her work revolves around in-depth,
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“As a young kid, in one old book I actually wrote, ‘Ambition: To defend the oppressed’. I can’t stop laughing at it. But it’s all been a progression of that kind of ambition.” Rufa Cagoco-Guiam is an anthropologist and a peacebuilding practitioner based in General Santos City in the southern Philippines. Her background includes
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“It was a painful experience to watch him die an avoidable death because he did not want to be treated as less human. Because they didn’t show him the honour and respect that he deserved.” Ochonye Boniface Bartholomew (“OBB” to his colleagues and friends) is a public health professional and advocate who works with
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“This is where we fail, the single leadership process. Forgot about the white saviour, just ‘the saviour’. No, no, no, no!” Marie-Rose is a nonprofit strategy and management consultant, and founder of the ESPWA community foundation in Haiti. She is Haitian-American, and became much more involved after the 2010 earthquake which killed some 200,000
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