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Earthquake Politics: A Reflection on Aershocks in Cyprus - Brief Points:

23 May 2023

is was a collective trauma Watching from Cyprus, the scenes of devastation for the community that many compared to were horrendous, with thousands of collapsed the pain of the 1963-1974 intercommunal buildings and people trapped under the rubble. [...] Moreover, with desire to transcend the divide and share media unable to reach the devastated region, it Turkish Cypriots’ grief, the political took around two days for the world to begin to potential of this empathy was immediately grasp the scope and scale of the disaster. [...] been negatively affected by the recent political climate on Empathy with the other’s pain and efforts to provide help the island and the policies of the two sides.15 As the UN during the recent earthquake show that the ground is ready Secretary-General stated in his latest report on his mission for such a collaboration. [...] For instance, only two days processes” in collaboration with the Technical Committee a er the earthquake in Turkey the European Commission on Environment.18 Nevertheless, there has been no progress, adopted a Recommendation and a Communication to and the UNSG report makes clear that the fears and establish common goals to boost disaster resilience in the exclusionary discourses of the two sides ar. [...] In view An island at a crossroads: of the rapidly changing risk landscape, the European disaster Transcending the divide? resilience goals aim to improve the capacity of the EU, its e recent earthquake in Türkiye has brutally shown how Member States and Participating States to the EU Civil human societies are vulnerable when they do not take the Protection Mechanism to anticipate and withstand th.
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