by Cecelia Lynch
As 2015 drew to a close, my inbox became more and more crowded with requests for donations from religious and non-religious groups, begging anew a central question posed […]
by Cecelia Lynch
Recent reports on humanitarian trends continue to beg the very important question of how and why paternalism in the aid industry continues. One of the major reasons, as […]
by Cecelia Lynch
Have we learned nothing?! Thirty years ago, the Band-Aid video showed pop stars with 1980s hair raising funds for “Africa.” But it wasn’t for […]
This week, The CIHA Blog will be posting a series of articles about nonviolence movements across Africa. The below post by CIHA Blog co-editor Cecelia Lynch gives an overview of […]
by Cecelia Lynch
What are good ways to assist people in need, no matter where they are from? What needs are imagined or exaggerated when those who want to give have […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Please check out our four contributions to In the News, following on the controversy surrounding Kony 2012. They include practical suggestions for Westerners involved in aid work […]
By Cecelia Lynch
I sent the following email to the Directors of the UN Foundation (Timothy Wirth and Elizabeth Gore) after viewing a screening of the film, “When the Night Comes.” […]
Cecelia Lynch
Kibera, the Nairobi neighborhood usually called a slum that is home to between 600,000 and one million people (depending on who is counting, how, and […]
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