Children watching a virtual reality film in a refugee camp. Screen shot from UNTV 21st Century’s Virtual Reality: Creating Humanitarian Empathy
“People come out of it feeling enlightened and often moved, and often ready to take action,” Mr. Arora told UN Television’s 21st Century Series in Virtual Reality: Creating Humanitarian Empathy.
Virtual Reality: Creating Humanitarian Empathy
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“the empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell” (Kohut, 1997:144)See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
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