Iftekhar Ahmed

About My Book: "Wandering in the Wilderness"(A Soulful Journey) is my first anthology of poems where I have expressed my heartfelt emotions and longings in a lucid way to alleviate the pains and sufferings of my life and it also caters to recapitulate some of my happiest moments of life that I have lived imagining my most beloved mistress with whom I have spent some quality time in my dreams. This book opens a flood of emotional outlet before every sensitive and impassioned reader who wish to see the essence of every aspect of our life on this mundane world. In fact the readers of this book will be transported to altogether a different land once they start perusing the depth of the feelings expressed with profound sentiments of the heart.

A Soulful Journey

Wandering In The Wilderness

Jenny Donovan

Graham Marsh

Martin Mulligan

Steve Barton

Community Engagement in Post-Disaster Recovery reflects a wide array of practical experiences in working with disaster-affected communities internationally. It demonstrates that widely held assumptions about the benefits of community consultation and engagement in disaster recovery work need to be examined more critically because poorly conceived and hastily implemented community engagement strategies have sometimes exacerbated divisions within affected communities and/or resulted in ineffective use of aid funding. It is equally demonstrated that well-crafted, creative and thoughtful programming is possible. The wide collection of case studies of practical experience from around the world is presented to help establish ways of working with communities experiencing great challenges. The book offers practical suggestions on how to give more substance to the rhetoric of community consultation and engagement in these areas of work. It suggests the need to work with a dynamic understanding of community formation that is particularly relevant when people experience unforeseen challenges and traumatic experiences. This title interrogates the concept of community through an extensive review of the literature and explores the ways of working with communities in transition and particularly in their recovery phases through an array of case studies in a range of socioeconomic and political contexts. Focused on the concept of community in post-disaster recovery solutions—an aspect which has received little critical interrogation in the literature—this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars in disaster management as well as humanitarian agencies.

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