Fireside Chat, Interview
Resilience and Change: Giles Duley & The Legacy of War Foundation
- Giles Dooley plans to travel to Cambodia next week to document individuals injured by carpet bombing and conflicts from fifty years prior.
- The "Land for Women" project is scheduled to continue for approximately five years, during which banking, agriculture, and climate-smart farming will be taught before transferring land ownership to the participants.
- Upon completion of the five-year support period, the initiative anticipates that women will gain the agency to request the foundation's departure from the land.
- Following the transfer of ownership, the project is expected to flourish as barriers are removed, enabling women to become entrepreneurs with side hustles.
- Government funders are hoped to view the model as a successful example of capital transfers, potentially leading to wider acceptance due to positive environmental impacts.
- The foundation intends to maintain focus on actionable local interventions, such as acquiring ambulances and teams, while keeping global uncontrollable events like wars in Ukraine or the Middle East on the periphery of strategic vision.
- Current work in Beirut aims to conclude by facilitating collaboration between different factions within shelters rather than forcing them apart.
- Future campaigns are expected to shift messaging from "no more war" to "build peace" and "build sustainable communities" to prevent feelings of powerlessness among the public.
- Daily operations will continue to prioritize controllable factors and immediate solutions over dwelling on unmanageable past or future global events.
- The approach recognizes that persistent conflict cannot be entirely eradicated, shifting the goal from stopping all wars to building sustainable futures through women-led initiatives.
- There is a stated concern that media framing focusing solely on violence may cause the public to view victims as "the other" and disconnect from the human reality of the situation.