Let CeaseFire fight The argument made here, that the valuable Ceasefire program was not sustainable because it received only government funding, speaks to a larger issue – what is the responsibility of the government in our society, and what is the responsibility of charities? It’s something I think about often in the context of civil society development abroad.
I read an interesting article five years ago about the 1995 Chicago heatwave deaths as the result of a government which did not believe it was responsible for the lives of its frailest citizens, but I can’t seem to google it up.