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Hi all,

I'm wrapping upwardly a fantastic calendar week of teaching at a summertime university inwards Northern Germany! Lots of peachy discussions almost the past, acquaint & futurity of evolution together with assist work!
I fifty-fifty managed to acquire a novel majority review on the blog, but since I spent a flake less fourth dimension online at that topographic point are as good fewer links inwards this week's review. Nonetheless, they are all the same worth exploring together with supply ample nutrient for thought as always!

Development news: The ultimate guide to the cash-based assist debate; South Sudan's bleak humanitarian situation; a neat overview over the economical damage of accepting refugees; how feminist is Canada's novel unusual policy really? Why do United Nations peacekeepers rape? the value of spiritual lives of assist workers; MUST-READS: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 charter schoolhouse travels to Thailand; the preservation of privilege inwards social activism.

Our digital lives: United Nations Social 500; an archive on the history of the chemical-industrial complex. 

Publications: New insights into participatory video; challenging the 'any go is ameliorate than no work' orthodoxy.

Enjoy!

New from aidnography
Reporting the Retreat (book review)
Philip Woods’ majority almost ‘the six-month, ane thousand-mile retreat of the British together with Chinese armies from Burma inwards the starting fourth dimension one-half of 1942’ is a real good researched historical instance study of journalism, tidings media together with the go of unusual correspondents. The majority looks at a grouping of twenty-six correspondents who reported from Burma for newspapers together with weekly newsreel broadcasts and, as important, almost one-half of the grouping wrote memoirs presently afterward their assignment inwards South Asia.
The discrepancies betwixt their daily work, e'er impeded past times armed forces censorship, together with their frank book-length accounts are a vivid reminder that at that topographic point never were ‘good quondam days’ when it comes to state of war reporting together with that many of today’s challenges receive got remained through time, novel (digital) media together with many different state of war theaters.
Development tidings

If celebrities similar Jenna Fischer acquire educated past times the recent NPR Goats & Soda serial on cash-based assist past times Nurith Aizenman this must last adept ;)!

Why do some United Nations peacekeepers rape?
"When it comes to the UN, judge is extremely rare," she adds.
"The UN's gut reaction is e'er to embrace up, to handgrip in-house, to brand the job become away," Lindstrom says.
"Yes, of course, rape happens everywhere, but at that topographic point is no scheme where yous receive got this type of legal protection for such crimes. These are people existence sent to protect others, afterward all."
But Stephane Dujarric, a spokesperson for the United Nations secretary-general, disagrees, saying: "I don't recall anyone is trying to bury these cases together with trying to brand them become away."
The spokesperson for the UN's peacekeeping operations, Olivier Salgado, describes the create out against sexual exploitation together with abuse as "a superlative priority of the secretary-general together with the entire leadership of the organisation".
Azad Essa for Al-Jazeera amongst a multi-part serial on United Nations peacekeeping together with sexual violence approximately those missions.

Understanding the Spiritual Lives of Aid Workers
As I receive got said before, at that topographic point tin last no ‘one size fits all’ approach to staff care. But at to the lowest degree acknowledging together with working amongst these alternative forms of healing together with self-care could serve 2 related purposes: of agreement ameliorate the spiritual lives of assist workers – as multi-faceted human beings rather than mere assist delivery robots – together with of providing them amongst back upwardly that is grounded inwards their ain cultures together with belief systems.
Gemma Houldey continues the debates on assist worker well-being together with providing holistic back upwardly inwards the context of assist work.

‘Black People Don’t Fly’: School Convinces Families to Try a Personalized Study-Abroad Charter
She spent the entire summertime recruiting, but convincing parents to allow their kids last a role of her school’s unique together with unfamiliar model—which includes flight the students to Thailand together with Lao People's Democratic Republic for several months for a study-abroad program—is to a greater extent than hard than it seems.
“I had ane daughter who was like, ‘black people don’t fly,’ thus yeah, it's has been the struggle,” Hui says, “but I am getting through to families.”
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“My objective is to develop qualities of a leader, thus when the educatee goes dorsum to their home-based school, they volition last successful,” says Hui. "One of the qualities nosotros are teaching them is to last self-directed learners."
Students who went through Thrival World Academies’ airplane pilot computer program inwards Oakland, California terminal twelvemonth tell that both traveling abroad together with existence encouraged to right away their ain learning online made them to a greater extent than independent, a alter their parents as good noticed.
Jenny Abamu for EdSurge; at that topographic point is Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 LOT going on inwards this article-charter schools, Chromebooks, disadvantaged students studying abroad, Thailand,...I guess this deserves a spider web log post service on its ain together with it volition rest a real complicated story almost teaching together with change.

Neither Radical nor Revolutionary: The Preservation of Privilege inwards Social Justice Activism
Why do folks on the margins request coin together with multiple college degrees inwards gild to last taken seriously as an authorization on their ain lived experience inside their ain community? Because it makes the privileged folks who brand the rules experience to a greater extent than comfortable amongst the thought of us having a voice? Probably. We’ve jumped through their hoops together with they give us a process together with a pat on the head. These nonprofit organizations request to last made accountable non simply for making to a greater extent than opportunities available to folks on the margins, but as good for re-thinking how nosotros take away to value phonation together with authorization both on together with inside marginalized communities. It is the departure betwixt talking ABOUT social judge together with BEING almost social justice. There needs to last endeavor made past times these organizations to acquire to a greater extent than funds. Additionally, these organizations request to genuinely seek out hidden voices- voices who receive got non had the run a risk to last heard, allow solitary made popular. I know thus many bright beau trafficking survivors together with sexual activity workers who receive got immensely valuable things to tell but because they are homeless, transient, destitute together with barely surviving — they don’t acquire these opportunities.
Laura LeMoon on the privileges of the assist manufacture - inwards the U.S. together with inwards some ways everywhere where 'we' create upwardly one's hear to 'help'.

Our digital lives
Leaderboard
The United Nations Social 500 is a success tracking computer program that recognises electrical flow United Nations staff together with contractors who are promoting the go of the United Nations via their personal social media accounts, thus helping to connect the go of the United Nations amongst the full general public.
The United Nations Social 500 listing of United Nations social media champions.

Monsanto sold banned chemicals for years despite known wellness risks, archives reveal
“Monsanto continued to make together with sell toxic industrial chemicals known as PCBs for 8 years afterward learning that they posed hazards to populace wellness together with the environment, according to legal analysis of documents seat online inwards a vast searchable archive.”
The Poison Papers archive has been analyzed past times Bill Sherman, the assistant attorney full general for the U.S. reason of Washington. Washington reason together with diverse due west coast cities are suing Monsanto for PCB contamination. Sherman is quoted as proverb that Poison Paper documents supply “damning evidence” that was previously unknown to the state.
Allison Wilson for the Poison Papers; this looks similar a super-fascinating projection together with first-class instance of how to digitalize together with percentage of import historical data!

Publications
Pathways to accountability from the margins: reflections on participatory video practice
Two of the fundamental challenges inwards edifice accountability for marginalised people are how to arrive at together with meaningfully involve the most excluded, together with how to found the kinds of relationships that hateful they tin achieve, influence together with hold off authorities responsiveness. This study explores how participatory video – an existing methodology for engaging marginalised people – tin last adapted together with strengthened to inclusively engage citizens together with foster responses from decision-makers. It presents 4 propositions for achieving this.
Proposition 1:
Ensure inclusive appointment during group-forming together with building.
Proposition 2:
Develop shared role together with grouping means through video exploration together with sense-making.
Proposition 3:
Enable horizontal scaling through community-level videoing action.
Proposition 4:
Support the performance of vertical influence through video-mediated communication.
Jackie Shaw amongst a novel study for IDS.

Re-employment, chore quality, wellness together with allostatic charge biomarkers: prospective prove from the U.K. Household Longitudinal Study
Formerly unemployed adults who transitioned into hapless character go had greater adverse levels of biomarkers compared amongst their peers who remained unemployed. The alternative of healthier unemployed adults into these hapless character or stressful jobs was unlikely to explicate their elevated levels of chronic stress-related biomarkers. Job character cannot last disregarded from the occupation success of the unemployed, together with may receive got of import implications for their wellness together with well-being.
Tarani Chandola together with Nan Zhang amongst an opened upwardly access article for the International Journal of Epidemiology; interesting query amongst fifty-fifty to a greater extent than interesting implications for evolution when it comes to 'any chore is a adept job'...

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