Episode 24 Sebastian Trives on the Power of Viewing Conflict Through Different Lenses.

Stories and Humanitarian Action

Sébastien Trives is a French national currently working for the NGO ACTED in Paris. He for the Humanitarian Advisory Team to the Famine Relief Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UNRWA, UNAMA and OSCE. He holds a M.A. in international relations, a B.A. in international affairs and history, and a diploma in European studies.

He says, “99 Years in Logar, describes life through the eyes of a child. It describes family life, the tension between tradition and modernity. The conflict is there, but it's never central. It provides this background of Afghanistan in a very endearing light. We have this tendency in humanitarian action to see people as beneficiaries of aid, victims, people without agency.