Presentation at 15th ALNAP Meeting (June 2004)
In recent years, there has been a glut of organisations set up to evaluate the role of humanitarianism. Much money is being spent on appraising the lessons learnt from recent crises and conflicts, facilitating reconciliation and the sharing of experiences and proclaiming recommendations for the future.
But despite all of this, the humanitarian world continues to get it wrong. Darfur is just one current example. The humanitarian community talks a lot and discusses a great deal about the need to act, but seemingly it is doing little. Sadly, it appears that history is being left to repeat itself - as we begin to hear all too familiar stories from Sudan about mass rape.