October 2010
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Don't Try This Abroad - By Dave Algoso | Foreign... →
Comment on Nicholas Kristof’s article on ‘DIY aid’, arguing that Kristof’s position reinforces the “Whites in Shining Armor” storyline: Americans and other outsiders are uniquely positioned to bring…
The D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution - NYTimes.com →
Article by Nicholas Kristof on the “fix-the-world-on-your-own generation” with several ‘aren’t-they-inspiring stories’ about Americans who have run off to save poor people in developing countries…
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Corruption, the biggest threat to MDG’s · News ·... →
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According to Transparency International, corruption takes up 20-30% of funding for basic services.
Ansel Adams, Street Photographer: 1940s Los... →
We’ve all seen the landscapes. Maybe too many of them. But Ansel Adams as a street photographer? Who knew! Although well-respected by the 1930s, the famous landscape photographer could not have…
Poverty Tourism: A Debate in Need of Typological... →
Poverty Tourism has lately been the subject of renewed blogger chatter and debate. It seems a perennial issue that gets a paroxysm of attention each time a major media outlet runs a story on it. The…
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The Poverty Tourism Debate – a compilation post |... →
The subject of poverty tourism keeps resurfacing in the aid world. The general crux of the debate is whether it’s OK to pay to look at poor people/areas. Proponents state that visiting other areas…
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Afghans, living on the knife's edge in Pakistan -... →
Pakistan’s Afghan refugees are now some of the world’s most vulnerable — and, some would argue, the most neglected. They have been coming here to this camp for 30 years, but the epic floods that…
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A Comprehensive Glossary Of Gifs - jezebel.com →
What sets the internet apart from other modes of communication—video, audio, text, imagery—is the way it translates a combination of forms into meaning through the use of animated gifs. Here is a…
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The Dark Side of Volunteer Tourism | utne.com →
Some dismiss volunteer tourism as “a morally seductive adaptation of modern mass tourism,” as it was called in an international studies conference earlier this year. Many volunteer projects serve the…
The Future of Voluntourism | Staying for Tea →
So what lies ahead for voluntourism? The customer-centric focus elevates the experience of the traveler over that of the community where the volunteer activities take place…One has to wonder where…
How Lovely. A Vacation In 4,000 Pictures | The... →
Photographer Mike Matas spent two weeks traveling by train with his girlfriend through Morocco and Spain. He took 4,000 photos. Here they are in 2 minutes. An absolutely wistful and wonderful…
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Times Photographer Joao Silva's Injuries in... →
Friends, colleagues and competitors of the photojournalist Joao Silva — there are many people in the first two categories, very few in the third — struggle to make sense on Saturday of the news that…
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Iraq war logs: secret files show how US ignored... →
A grim picture of the US and Britain’s legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a massive leak of American military documents that detail torture, summary executions and war crimes.
Almost 400,000…
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The Iraq Archive - The Strands of a War - Iraq War... →
A huge trove of secret field reports from the battlegrounds of Iraq sheds new light on the war, including such fraught subjects as civilian deaths, detainee abuse and the involvement of Iran.
A huge…
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Mike Kamber: Military Censorship - On being... →
Michael has been “working around the edges” of the Iraq War since 2003 as a photojournalist for The New York Times. Many of the events that took place during the war were not accessible to him. Some…
Is There Any Way to Fix Pakistan? - The AfPak... →
From washed-out roads and bridges to the frayed state of Islamabad politics, Pakistan is a country in sorry shape. An FP special report on how things could go from bad to better.
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Pakistan's political crises: A biggish dust-up in... →
EVEN by Pakistani standards, this has been a bad week. Politically motivated battles erupted in Karachi, the country’s biggest city, on October 16th and raged for several days, leaving over 70 dead….
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Political Bloodshed Paralyzes Karachi -... →
President Asif Ali Zardari vowed Wednesday to restore order in the southern port city of Karachi, which has been brought to a standstill by an escalating turf war among several political parties that…
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“If All You Have is a Hammer” - How Useful is... →
In this article, guest contributor Paul Currion looks at the potential for crowdsourcing data during large-scale humanitarian emergencies. He asks whether crowdsourcing adds significant value to…
