A Guluwalk Update
Opinion-Editorial: Uganda peace talks need diplomatic surge
"Could it be that peace in northern Uganda is once again suffering from the 'bystander effect'? In the 1960s, a young woman on the streets of New York was stabbed to death over a period of 30 minutes while as many as 38 witnesses did nothing, despite her pleas for help," write GuluWalk founder Adrian Bradbury and Resolve Uganda senior researcher Peter Quaranto in Uganda's Sunday Monitor and at Reuters AlertNet.
Psychologists explain it as the 'bystander effect.' In the face of an emergency, a person is less likely to intervene when others are present. It's our nature to assume that the next person will act, thus relinquishing responsibility.
That description sounds a lot like the international community's response or lack thereof surrounding the faltering Juba peace process. The diplomatic corps, hampered by fatigue and impatience, has adopted a wait-and-see approach as events unfold. Yet, when everyone expects the other to take action, no one will."
Follow this link to read the entire Op/Ed at Reuters Foundation AlertNet.
"Could it be that peace in northern Uganda is once again suffering from the 'bystander effect'? In the 1960s, a young woman on the streets of New York was stabbed to death over a period of 30 minutes while as many as 38 witnesses did nothing, despite her pleas for help," write GuluWalk founder Adrian Bradbury and Resolve Uganda senior researcher Peter Quaranto in Uganda's Sunday Monitor and at Reuters AlertNet.
Psychologists explain it as the 'bystander effect.' In the face of an emergency, a person is less likely to intervene when others are present. It's our nature to assume that the next person will act, thus relinquishing responsibility.
That description sounds a lot like the international community's response or lack thereof surrounding the faltering Juba peace process. The diplomatic corps, hampered by fatigue and impatience, has adopted a wait-and-see approach as events unfold. Yet, when everyone expects the other to take action, no one will."
Follow this link to read the entire Op/Ed at Reuters Foundation AlertNet.
posted by aka.alias @ 9:20 AM 1 Comments 
1 Comments:
Ain't that the truth ... much of the problems of the world are well known. Yet everyone else thinks that someone else will take responsibility for it.
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