Category Archives: Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance

Sexual Violence and the Disaster Cycle

Posted on September 22, 2017 by reliefanalysis

The following post is from longtime ReliefAnalysis supporter and contributor, Joseph P. Conrad. With new disaster zones across the Caribbean and southern US created by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, the urgency to protect against sexual-based violence in these volatile … Continue reading →

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Arctic Cruise Missiles and the Methane Hydrate Bonanza

Posted on June 4, 2017 by reliefanalysis

The airspace over Syria is getting crowded. Two weeks ago, a Russian fighter executed a barrel role over a US tanker aircraft, prompting a Russian apology on the re-established air space hotline. The Middle East airspace radar looks like an … Continue reading →

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North Korea’s Potential Collapse: An Anthropocene Inferno

Posted on April 23, 2017 by reliefanalysis

Tensions are rising with North Korea. Global security articles tell of Russian bombers near Alaska, armadas of air craft carriers somewhere presumably in the Pacific, and satellite imagery of nuclear test sites showing…volleyball games. If conditions deteriorate, watch for upwelling warm … Continue reading →

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Eurasia’s Megacity-equivalent Population Explosion Currently Lives in Yemen

Posted on March 19, 2017 by reliefanalysis

It’s very possible that over the next decade, Eurasia is going to add an equivalent in population growth exceeding that of an Istanbul or Cairo-sized megacity from a source greatly underestimated by the security and humanitarian community. That source is … Continue reading →

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Violent US Weather Pattern: A Formulaic Signal in the Chaos

Posted on January 22, 2017 by reliefanalysis

It is a violent weather pattern shaping up in the US on January 22, 2017, with an “unseasonably” early tornado/severe weather outbreak in the SE US and an atmospheric river coming onshore in California, resembling an El Nino set-up in … Continue reading →

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The Digital Divide Just Increased Dramatically in the Pacific – at Precisely the Worst Time

Posted on January 1, 2017 by reliefanalysis

American and Australian geologists have confirmed – Antarctica’s Totten Glacier is being consumed from beneath by warm currents of the Southern Ocean. At stake, up to 11.5 feet of Sea Level Rise if a domino-effect melt scenario were to take place … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Matthew and Haiti’s Devastating October Hurricanes – Exporing a Potential New Correlation

Posted on October 2, 2016 by reliefanalysis

As of October 2, 2016, Hurricane Matthew is poised to impact the vulnerable and disaster-prone nation of Haiti, targeting the island nation with the most dangerous north-east quadrant of its 140 mile-per-hour Category 4 winds. October hurricanes, when they have … Continue reading →

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Louisiana: 30,000+ Rescues

Posted on August 17, 2016 by reliefanalysis

There were no winds, no storm surge. No pre-disaster emergency declaration of a named Atlantic Hurricane, and no pre-landfall mass sheltering operations. And yet, as the scale of Louisiana’s multi-day flood becomes more clear, what happened in Baton Rouge and … Continue reading →

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Processing the Distress of the Present Moment

Posted on July 23, 2016 by reliefanalysis

For many of us, if not the vast majority of us, experiencing exponential change with a mind wired for linear processing can be exceptionally disorienting. “Is this the ‘new normal’?” people often ask after yet another mass shooting, act of police … Continue reading →

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Turkey’s Coup Attempt: Empty Set

Posted on July 17, 2016 by reliefanalysis

In the immediate aftermath of Turkey’s attempt coup attempt on July 15, 2016, the outstanding journalist and Turkey analyst for the Huffington Post and Al Arabiya, Mahir Zeynalov, expressed this sentiment: Now things are relatively calm in Turkey, I gotta ask: … Continue reading →

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