TEDxPatras 2019
Humanitarian decision-making: certainties and uncertainties
Christina Psarra
What kind of role does uncertainty play in the improvement and development of the humanitarian action? Accordingly, what key part does uncertainty play in the evaluation of the priority setting, in the choice of the advisable strategy and the proper intervention in a setting of constant change where mistakes are not an option? How do you decide either to leave or go on when only those two options are available? Under which circumstances is silence diplomacy and when is the time to break it? How do you proceed when you have multiple choices at your disposal and how, when you’re in a dilemma? What kind of skillset and knowledge would you possibly need in order to make the right decisions and at the same time how you’d surely know that they are the right ones?

