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Lynne Jones

Lynne Jones is an OBE is a British psychiatrist, aid worker and writer with experience in conflict and disaster settings. She is the author of Then They Started Shooting(2013). Her latest book is Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry (2017). 

The Aid Industry Labors Under Neocolonial Structures

The aid industry is steeped in colonialist ideology. Recipients of aid are exploited, marginalized and worst of all, their efforts to improve their own circumstances are written off, if not blocked by the NGO’s that claim to help them.

19 апреля, 2018
Lynne Jones
19 апреля, 2018
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A sign in Haiti depicts a United Nations Peacekeeper in the form of a monster. (Photo: Ramon Espinosa/AP)

The aid industry might be having its #MeToo moment, but sexual exploitation is just a symptom of a more fundamental issue: the neo-colonial structures through which most aid is delivered in disaster and conflict areas. If this is not addressed, no amount of independent investigating committees and hotlines will solve the problem. I have been an aid

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