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The film asks how individuals and communities can tackle disaster while embracing an ethos of mutual aid that sidesteps yearning for nationalist policies that lead to even more harm.
Four hundred and forty men and boys were killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster, with the youngest victims aged just 14 years old.
With Morocco, there’s stronger bureaucracy, and in Libya, authorities are weaker. But, as a scholar who has worked in both countries explains, the results are the same: not enough aid getting through.
Identifying the victims of a mass casualty event is a crucial part of grieving and community healing.
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Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, American University School of International Service
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Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Historian, Swansea University
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PhD Candidate, Humanities, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor of Forensic Science, Murdoch University