Participation is a common strand used by humanitarians to engage crisis societies. If used as a tool for empowerment & critical thinking, the approaches can lead to fruitful engagement, which is the main theme of this think piece: philosophical and analytical dimensions to the engagement of crisis-affected societies in humanitarian action.
Nonetheless, beyond platitudes and good intentions, engagement of crisis-affected societies’, premised in an ethic of empowerment and compassion, ‘often achieves oratorical rather than genuine outcomes; which raises the question as to what the basis for the claim of human insecurity is, which humanitarian actors sought to engage crisis-affected societies in the search for durable solutions. True, humanitarian action has saved millions of lives, but the sustainability of interventions raise fundamental questions as they are not augured on indigenous adaptive strategies, that nurtured a survival niche long before institutional aid came to the scene. By a way of contributing to mend these infirmities, we may theorize Disaster Risk management as the dynamic interaction of policy, strategy, organization and process.
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