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Internationalising Institutional and Professional Practices: Community Partnership Models of Change in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka

Grant reference: RES-062-23-1025

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Internationalising institutional and professional practices when giving humanitarian aid : insights from research in Sri Lanka
Globalisation has brought the world closer together and disasters reach the TV screens of people across the world within minutes of their happening. The 2004 Tsunami in Sri Lanka was one of these incidents. It called forth much goodwill and offers of help from ordinary people who had little or no connection with the countries affected as well as those who had friends or families in the affected areas. The research project, Internationalising Institutional and Professional Practices, funded by the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council in the UK has sought to examine these offers of help by focusing on two models that aimed to assist local people in terms that they defined. One of these models was called the Durham Model because it was organised under the auspices of Durham University and the other one was termed the IASSW Model because it was sponsored by the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW). Villagers were interviewed by local researchers to ascertain their views of these two models. These identified a range of positions that indicated that while there was a general feeling of good work being done, and local people appreciated the help that was offered, there were also some difficulties in getting aid to those who needed it at the time it was required. This presentation will focus on these findings and raise some questions for discussion.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/sass/research/esrc-srilanka/conference2/ProfDominelliInternationalisingInstitutionalandProfessionalPracticesinAidSriLanka.pdf
English

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Author Lena Dominelli

Additional details

15 January 2011
Internationalising institutional and professional practices project : preliminary findings
Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
15 January 2011

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