The multiple disasters inflicted by Hurricane Sandy call for similar magnanimity.
The hiatus after 9/11 in imagined real or potential disasters inflicted on New York was short-lived, Professor Page notes.
And still, after the calamities, after all the disasters inflicted upon us by this elusive and cunning adversary, we haven't yet understood what we are up against.
In Puerto Cabezas, the regional capital closest to Felix's landfall, international aid workers and those from Nicaragua's government congregate with laptops and wireless internet, organising the distribution of food and supplies.It is harder to mitigate the immense economic damage natural disasters inflict.
Judging from the level of casualties, material, psycho-social, and infrastructural damages (most often irreparable) that disasters inflict on individuals, communities, and governments, reactive post-disaster strategies such as those currently in place in Cameroon should be discouraged as they do not meet the objectives of DRR of saving lives and reducing vulnerability.
The president and his party had been acting "as if they own this country", he said, and had brought international sanctions on Zimbabwe "through the flagrant abuses of human rights and the economic disaster they inflicted".
Thalidomide: The Fifty Year Fight told many stories about this, the worst disaster ever inflicted by medicine, but chiefly that of David Mason, whose baby daughter Louise he first met as "a torso with little… little flowers… where her arms and legs should be".
He did it to the American citizens in Puerto Rico in the grips of an historic disaster, which inflicted untold damage and ultimately was blamed for more than 4,600 deaths.
The legal case for intervention in Iraq is clear with its government inviting us, and I think it is pretty clear in Syria because of the genocide and the humanitarian disasters being inflicted on that country.
