Critics have lost sight of the key message of the World Humanitarian Summit in the Secretary-General’s report: the plight of the people in humanitarian crises is not a fallout from global affairs; it is a global affair.
Does the fundamental construct of humanitarian action need to change from providing aid to facilitating people’s access to help?
If peacebuilding and sustaining peace is about inclusion, amplifying marginalized voices, and transforming otherwise violent scenarios into non-violent conversations, then taking advantage of the spaces football creates is essential.
As many dictators before him, the quasi-dictator Ortega has forgotten that in order to get to power, he depended on others.
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