Julie #Billaud: Administrative techniques devised to engage parties to a conflict "are changing as a result of external sources of pressure for ‘evidence-based programming’, turning personalised case-based monitoring into a new form of ‘audit culture’ based on statistical evidence. Paradoxically, relying on numbers to realise the utopia of ‘humanising war’ makes the very ‘humans’ who are supposed to benefit from it disappear from view."
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339326884_Masters_of_disorder_rituals_of_communication_and_monitoring_at_the_International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross #RedCross #conflict #bureaucracy #humanitarian #quantification #technocracy #quantitative