Rebecca Corn

An excerpt from

'Access to Dialogue and the Voice of Affected Peoples; Humanitarianism and the Rwandan Genocide – An NGO Revolution?', pending publication.

There are too many examples throughout the world today of peoples excluded from the global dialogue, in humanitarian crisis and unable to effect change, or forced to extreme measures in order to enter the world’s consciousness. Global politics is exploding as never before with a dissonance between evident dialogical structures, and possible dialogical reach, as we remain governed by a war-time distribution of power and influence. Crucially, global responses to ‘complex emergencies’[1], when necessarily tailored to such a framework, become increasingly inappropriate and dangerously inapplicable.