It’s not a lack of will that keeps many communities in a cycle of crisis → response → rebuilding → the next crisis. It’s also the habits of thought that shape how action is designed. We classify and categorize because boxes make complexity feel contained.
Humanitarian and anticipatory action actors need creative ways to climb out of those boxes, to breathe in a living, adaptive system. Imagine if the same time and energy spent filling donor forms, proposals, and report pages went into listening to local stories, being with students in schools, and walking with people on the move?
One interviewee said, “We would have to restart the past eighty years: unbuild the member state, the UN system, all of it.” Radical, yes. But maybe that’s what courage looks like now: re-defining what “act early” can look like, saying the upsetting idea, and creating altogether unexpected partnerships that can actually enable radically different forms of community support.
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