The devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 caused massive destruction to
coastal Aceh, Indonesia, and left countless numbers of people dead or wounded. This article …

Previous studies on disaster aid emphasize on how aid as gift forms hierarchical relations
and thus perpetuates political and symbolic domination. This article, however, highlights the …

On December 26th 2004 the second largest earthquake on record occurred off the coast of
northern Sumatra, Indonesia, triggering tsunami waves reaching 15 metres above sea level …

In any post-disaster contexts, the affected societies will inevitably be involved in tensions
between remembering and forgetting the past disaster experiences. They need to forget the …

The date 15 August 2015 marks the 10th anniversary of the Helsinki Peace Agreement,
which ended a major thirty‐year conflict between the Free Aceh Movement and the …

This study examines the roles of Civil Society Organisations (henceforth abbreviated as
CSOs) and their social capital formation in post-disaster Indonesia. It includes an analysis of …

It was 12: 51pm on Tuesday the 22 nd of February when a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck
the Canterbury region in New Zealand's South Island. This earthquake devastatingly took …

Disasters caused by natural hazards and human actions are destructive in their impacts on
peoples' lives, livelihoods, and wellbeing, particularly in the case of the poor. Each disaster …