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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?

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