http://conflicthealth.com/legitimacy-health-and-obamas-surge/ Defending Health Against Persecution, Violence, And Armed Conflict Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:29:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://conflicthealth.com/legitimacy-health-and-obamas-surge/comment-page-1/#comment-604 Christopher Albon Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://conflicthealth.com/?p=1274#comment-604 Good point. Another way to put it is bottom-up approaches to health. The military has a decent amount of variation in applying cultural relativism to MEDCAP operations. Sometimes they hold firmly to the top-down approach to develop that fails so miserably in the 1960s, other times they blow NGOs out of the water with their willingness, even eagerness, adopt creative bottom-up approaches to development projects. Good point. Another way to put it is bottom-up approaches to health. The military has a decent amount of variation in applying cultural relativism to MEDCAP operations. Sometimes they hold firmly to the top-down approach to develop that fails so miserably in the 1960s, other times they blow NGOs out of the water with their willingness, even eagerness, adopt creative bottom-up approaches to development projects.

]]> http://conflicthealth.com/legitimacy-health-and-obamas-surge/comment-page-1/#comment-602 Warner Anderson MD Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:55:35 +0000 http://conflicthealth.com/?p=1274#comment-602 Democratization meets cultural relativism. Counterinsurgency and stability operation must necessarily adopt an approach of cultural relativism. That's the US and Europe's biggest weakness, and maybe China's biggest strength (extraterritorially, at least). Democratization meets cultural relativism. Counterinsurgency and stability operation must necessarily adopt an approach of cultural relativism. That’s the US and Europe’s biggest weakness, and maybe China’s biggest strength (extraterritorially, at least).

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