Workshop: Cultural Competency for Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery

该奖项支持2017年5月22日至26日在墨西哥坎昆举行的联合国全球减少灾害风险平台上的人类学家和人类学知情的人道主义援助从业者研讨会和小组的参与费用。经过半个世纪对灾害对人类影响的研究，人类学家知道，有必要考虑当地文化，以减少灾后痛苦，加快受灾社区的恢复。然而，这些有据可查的调查结果几乎从未在灾害规划中得到实施。因此，该讲习班召集了一批人类学家和具有人类学思想的从业人员，将人类学的灾害科学研究结果直接传达给与灾害应对和恢复有关的国际决策者。与此同时，通过调查灾害决策本身的背景，讲习班为人类学家提供了一个机会，向决策者学习为什么当地文化一直被忽略在灾害规划中。该研讨会由美国人类学协会召集，首次汇集了从业人员，研究人员和学者，他们的工作涵盖文化人类学，风险认知和沟通，减少灾害风险，恢复管理，灾后需求评估，重建和重新安置等领域。讲习班与会者将利用广泛的实地工作，将围绕文化在灾害政策和实践中的作用的长期存在的问题理论化，分享：（a）从过去灾害案例中吸取的经验教训;（B）关于最佳做法的知识;（c）促进承认和纳入易受灾害或受灾害影响群体的文化优先事项和价值观的行动步骤。这些行动步骤将包括关于如何在减少灾害风险和恢复规划方面提高适应能力的战略。此外，该小组将对联合国全球平台以及对人类学理论和应用的反应进行快速人种学研究，并协同工作，对作为全球平台一部分产生的文件和公开声明进行专题分析。其成果将包括：在美国人类学协会年度会议上举行圆桌会议;在《人类学新闻》和《自然灾害观察家》上发表一份报告，确定讲习班提出的关键主题和机会;编写一份文件，概述灾害人类学的关键主题和落实文化能力，并严格评估它们在其他减灾和减少风险政策领域的潜力;以及制定一份政策简报，概述文化能力在减少风险和救灾中的作用。

This award supports participant costs for a workshop and panel of anthropologists and anthropologically-informed humanitarian aid practitioners at the United Nations Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Cancun, Mexico, May 22-26, 2017. After a half-century of research on the human impacts of disasters, anthropologists know that it is necessary to take local cultures into account to reduce post-disaster suffering and speed recovery for disaster-affected communities. However, these well-documented findings are almost never implemented in disaster planning. Therefore, this workshop convenes a group of anthropologists and anthropology-minded practitioners to communicate anthropological disaster science findings directly to international policy makers concerned with disaster response and recovery. At the same time, by investigating the contexts of disaster policy-making itself, the workshop provides the anthropologists an opportunity to learn from the policy makers why local culture is consistently omitted from disaster planning. Convened by the American Anthropological Association, the workshop brings together for the first-time practitioners, researchers, and academics whose work spans the fields of cultural anthropology, risk perception and communication, disaster risk reduction, recovery management, post-disaster needs assessment, reconstruction, and resettlement. Drawing on extensive fieldwork to theorize the persistent issues surrounding the role of culture in disaster policy and practice, workshop participants will share: (a) lessons learned from past disaster cases; (b) knowledge about best practices; and (c) action steps to advance the recognition and inclusion of cultural priorities and values among groups vulnerable to or impacted by disaster. These action steps will include strategies for how to adaptive capacity in contexts of disaster risk reduction and recovery planning. Additionally, the team will conduct a rapid ethnography of the UN Global Platform and the reactions to anthropological theory and application and work collaboratively to conduct a thematic analysis of documents and public statements produced as part of the Global Platform. Outcomes of will include: a roundtable presentation at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association; publication of a report in Anthropology News and in Natural Hazards Observer that identifies key themes and opportunities that emerge from the workshop; a paper that summarizes key themes of disaster anthropology and the implementation of cultural competency, and which critically assesses their potentiality within other disaster and risk reduction policy arenas; and the development of a policy brief outlining the role of cultural competency in risk reduction and disaster response.