Title
Humanitarian Action, Development, and Peace in Practice. The Triple Nexus Explai
Record Type
Video
URL
https://youtu.be/z9Nkvc4p0JY
Contact
Jono Anazalone
Year
2,022
Publisher
Imara IHG

Summary
Jono Anzalone uses the 2010 Haiti earthquake to frame the Triple Nexus as a leadership challenge. He explains how humanitarian, development, and peace actors often clash due to differing mandates, urging leaders to align short-term actions with long-term resilience within "messy" systems.
Description
In this video, Jonno Anzalone explores the concept of the triple nexus—the intersection of humanitarian action, development, and peacebuilding—and why it matters in real-world disaster contexts.

Drawing from his direct experience during the response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Jonno illustrates how well-intentioned actors often operate on different timelines, mandates, and assumptions. While humanitarian teams focus on immediate life-saving needs, development actors plan for long-term recovery, and peace and security actors address instability—these efforts frequently overlap, collide, or even contradict one another.

Rather than treating the triple nexus as a buzzword, this talk frames it as a practical leadership challenge. Jonno argues that disasters unfold within complex political, historical, and institutional systems—and that leaders must learn not only to manage complexity, but to lead through it.

This video invites practitioners, policymakers, and leaders to embrace the “messiness” of real crises, ask hard questions about overlapping mandates, and rethink how short-term action can be aligned with long-term resilience.