Answering the Call to Service: Rotary and the Decline of Global International and Humanitarian Aid
Greetings Rotarians, I hope you have all been well! This blog post is going to be more technical in nature and policy-focused. It will focus on the decline of international and humanitarian aid globally. This phenomenon has often been discussed on the news. In my program at Lund University, it is discussed in almost every class, as many of my professors are humanitarian and development aid specialists. While I am studying a Master of Science in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation, international development and humanitarian assistance are hugely connected. Often, disaster risk reduction, humanitarian aid, development, and disaster recovery all occur in the same process. So, I would like to share with you some of my research on this and how it relates to Rotary. But first, some good news! The Institute for Economics & Peace Just last week, I was accepted to become a global ambassador for the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) , a research th...