“When the ground opened”: Responsibility for harms and rights violations in disasters – Insights from Sierra Leone

Sesay, Mohamed; Bradley, Megan

doi:10.1080/14754835.2021.1935221

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“…People spread fake news and baseless rumours to gain political advantage during public catastrophes (Sawaneh 2020 ). This act, added to the state officials' contradictory actions during disasters and emergencies, leaves questions and doubts in the victims' minds about their fate during such circumstances (Sesay and Bradley 2022 ).…”

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A state-of-the-art examination of disaster management in Sierra Leone: the implementation drawbacks, research gaps, advances, and prospects

Turay

Gbetuwa

2022

Geoenviron Disasters

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Unfolding events have shown that Sierra Leone is enduring various disasters at a worrying rate. While progress is being made in disaster management, activities that degrade the fragile ecosystem, exacerbated by climate change, poverty, and bad governance, remain growing concerns. Amid these concerns, there is inadequate information to take appropriate actions. The authors wish to provide a solution by examining 35 publications from various scholarly and grey literature and raw data sources, following a critical review process designed to expose the implementation drawbacks, research gaps, advances, and prospects in disaster management in Sierra Leone. The study results show that lapses in data management, fewer professionals, and inefficiencies in communication are the most pressing considerations for improving disaster management in the country. Inadequate funds to implement management plans remain pervasive. Following these findings, we recommend that all first responders be routinely exposed to international tabletop exercises and simulated disaster response training to help them build their capacities and learn from other countries. Students in the relevant disciplines should be encouraged to participate in these exercises to facilitate early learning. Also, management initiatives should consider gender equity, the situations of the disabled, and other vulnerable groups at all levels of planning and implementation of activities. Future studies should assess the influence of social media on disaster management research and practice in the country.

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“…This conflict in institutional mandate can sometimes affect land conservation and other disaster mitigation interventions. In all these, individuals and communities already marginalized bear the brunt of the consequences (Sesay and Bradley 2022 ).…”

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A state-of-the-art examination of disaster management in Sierra Leone: the implementation drawbacks, research gaps, advances, and prospects

Turay

Gbetuwa

2022

Geoenviron Disasters

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Affliction in the post Palu disaster: State failure to implement human rights standard on disaster management

Tjitrawati

Romadhona

2023

Cogent Social Sciences

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Sociological Trilogy of Cultural Community on Exposure Peril of Monsoon in Western Rural and Urban, Sierra Leone

Bangura

2023

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Although there are crowds of cultural comprehension and interpretations, the mass of Sierra Leonean sociologists would consent that the anchor of Sierra Leonean sociology is the swotting of personage reciprocation (Bangura, 2019). Consequently, when exposure pounds, Sierra Leonean sociologists have asked, “how do Sierra Leoneans reciprocate?” The natural social standard of intermittence or frequency and ferocity of hydro-meteorological exposures stirring Western Rural and Urban is socially augmenting, preeminent to tough shivers shocks on socio-economic, educational and cultural growth (Jackson, 2023; Wouter Botzen et al, 2019). This social research pinpoints at charting the social judgements of the illustrative social history on the shock of cultural community-predicated social arteries to exposure foresight to the peril of typhoon activated monsoon in Western Rural and Urban, Sierra Leone. The judgements of this social research might bolster link social lacunae in cultural community foresight and imminent social antiphon to the peril of typhoon monsoon, consequently abridging social susceptibility and exposure. Fundamental dossier for social research was captured via online partially-structured social dialogues. Seventy-eight social research respondents were affianced for a profound sociological comprehension of the shock of cultural community predicated arteries on exposure foresight. Auxiliary dossier was collected via social evidence inquiry by scanning, appraising and reviewing briefs and inferences from previous social research discourses, monographs and peer reviewed journals. The Estimate-Talk-Estimate social technique was utilised to assess the impact of cultural community based arteries to exposure foresight. The extensive social research judgement was that cultural community-accustomed practice has a substantially lofty shock on individual threshold of exposure foresight. The social research suggested policy makers to proliferate the social accomplishment of cultural community accustomed exposure oversight practice blueprints as the maximum reasonable scheme to diminish the shocks of typhoon activated monsoons in Western Rural and Urban, Sierra Leone.

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“When the ground opened”: Responsibility for harms and rights violations in disasters – Insights from Sierra Leone

Cited by 3 publications

References 29 publications

A state-of-the-art examination of disaster management in Sierra Leone: the implementation drawbacks, research gaps, advances, and prospects

A state-of-the-art examination of disaster management in Sierra Leone: the implementation drawbacks, research gaps, advances, and prospects

Affliction in the post Palu disaster: State failure to implement human rights standard on disaster management

Sociological Trilogy of Cultural Community on Exposure Peril of Monsoon in Western Rural and Urban, Sierra Leone

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