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Reimagine Zahra's World
Fundraising Campaign for UNHCR
Issue 44 | September 2017
Background
Refugee stories were everywhere in media. But a study by Brad J. Bushman of the University of Michigan and Craig A. Anderson of Iowa State University proved that over-exposure to violent images actually reduced aid offered as people became 'comfortably numb' to the pain and suffering of others.
With the refugee crisis in the Middle East in its seventh year and donor apathy rising, what could be done?