Marzia is currently serving as Research Director for the Humanitarian Exchange and Research Centre (HERE-Geneva). She was most recently the Director for Humanitarian Policy and the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA)’s representative in New York. In this role, she liaised with the UN on a range of humanitarian issues and engaged Member States in a dialogue on issues, such as access and humanitarian principles. Prior to joining ICVA, Marzia worked for the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement in Geneva as their Head of the Africa and Americas department and a country analyst, contributing analysis and research in support of legislative and policy processes affecting IDPs. Leading up to this point, she held positions overseeing refugee response and justice sector reform programmes in Africa.
Uncertainty and Humanitarian Action: What Donald Rumsfeld can teach us

Uncertainty and Humanitarian Action: What Donald Rumsfeld can teach us

Since its onset, one striking feature of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has been the narrative power of its novelty. This global narrative depicts COVID-19 pushing humanity towards a ‘historical divide’ of BC and AC (before and after COVID-19), where unknown, unpredictable futures await. Within the humanitarian sector, we reveal this same preoccupation with the post-COVID future in a plethora of reports and webinars. While the virus itself may be the antihero of this narrative, we believe uncertainty should be recognised as the second, less visible protagonist.

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