ZOMIA INC
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Mission Statement
The Zomia Center is dedicated to addressing the needs of non-state populations worldwide, supporting humanitarian projects addressing the needs of civilians who live in areas devoid of state government resources. Specifically, the Zomia Center is dedicated to addressing the needs of particularly vulnerable people in such non-state areas, ensuring that lack of government resources do not prevent civilians from being empowered to take control of their own lives.
About This Cause
The Zomia Center is dedicated to addressing the needs of non-state populations worldwide. Over the past few decades, increasing portions of the globe have become “non-state spaces” – areas where government services are minimal or absent. These regions include conflict zones – since 2001, the number of civil wars across the globe has increased 30 percent – as well as communities affected by privatization or ethnosectarian discrimination. These regions are effectively excluded from the international state system, which means inhabitants lack access to crucial legal and developmental aid. Due to the absence of robust government services, these regions also lack access to public health, including primary health care and population-level approaches that target disease and inequality. The Zomia Center addresses these gaps. The Zomia Center partners with local organizations to help carry out life-saving humanitarian and developmental work in some of the most hard-to-reach and unstable regions on the planet. The Zomia Center does not seek to replace government services, but rather collaborates with local community groups to help build sustainable and autonomous approaches to local governance. The core strength of the Center is its alliance of researchers and specialists. Currently living and working across Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and Afghanistan, they have decades of experience in contested environments. By building and maintaining trusted networks, they ensure access to the data necessary for robust analysis, and help implement programs ranging from vaccination campaigns to assisting families with locating the remains of loved ones disappeared by ISIS. Researchers include physicians, journalists, anthropologists and ethnographers, collaborating under the guidance of acclaimed sociologists and political theorists.