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From: Architexturez <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 10:01:27 +0530
City Debates holds multidisiplinary seminars on effort to rebuild in
wake of 2006 war
By Jim Quilty
Daily Star staff
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
BEIRUT: In the best of circumstances, disasters are met with relief
efforts, and relief efforts are followed by reconstruction programs.
It's only natural, then, that observers are tempted to see rebuilding in
the same humanitarian terms as relief. Reconstruction, though, isn't a
sentimental affair. It raises questions of what gets rebuilt, how and by
whom - inquiries that may have spiritual and intellectual facets but,
power being what it is, they ground the process firmly in the realm of
political economy.
cont'd....
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=82235