Introducing CUIDAR: A child-centred approach to disasters
‘I think they should give more opportunity to the young people's opinions, because although they think we are immature and that we are going to say outlandish things, it is a lie, there are many young people that are very mature.’ (Young participant following an event with policy-makers, Portug...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) |
| Repositorio: | O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/153174 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10609/153174 https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447354437.int001 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | disaster planning and management disaster response and coordination children's participation participatory research disaster risk reduction sendai framewok CUIDAR resilience participation citizenship |
| Sumario: | ‘I think they should give more opportunity to the young people's opinions, because although they think we are immature and that we are going to say outlandish things, it is a lie, there are many young people that are very mature.’ (Young participant following an event with policy-makers, Portugal) The role, visibility and activism of young people in the context of disaster has grown exponentially since 2018. As we were drafting this book, the young activist Greta Thunberg was receiving a human rights award from Amnesty International as an ‘Ambassador of Conscience’, joining previous recipients Malala Yousafzai and Nelson Mandela (BBC, 2019). On Twitter, using the hashtag #FridaysForFuture denoting the global school strike movement, Greta declared: ‘This is not my award, this is everyone's award and would not have been possible without everyone striking every Friday because of the climate crisis.’ Fridays For Future, School Strike for Climate, Juventud por el Clima (there are different names) was in turn inspired by the youth-led strikes in Parkland School in Florida, a protest against the US gun laws that young people said enabled a massacre on their campus on 14 February 2018. The following month, a national school walkout took place together with the US-wide March for Our Lives rally against gun violence. That summer, Greta Thunberg began to sit in protest outside the Swedish Parliament, and we have since seen a transformation, led by young people, in our understanding of what counts as a disaster and who gets to say what must be done. |
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