Download Research: SafeWaves Emergency Kit and Radio Deployment in Conflict Zones

This study examines the plausibility of SafeWaves, an integrated emergency radio and psychosocial aid kit designed for conflict-affected contexts, with a focus on Sudan. Combining a self-powered, pre-tuned radio broadcasting verified humanitarian information with non-lyrical classical music for psychological stabilization, SafeWaves proposes a dual function: communication and care. Using a realist synthesis of academic literature, humanitarian reports, and precedent cases from South Sudan, Burkina Faso, and Nepal, the study traces the Context–Mechanism–Outcome configurations that underpin effective radio-based interventions. Findings indicate that radio’s resilience and community embeddedness enable trust formation, rumor containment, and affect regulation even amid infrastructural collapse. However, the literature also cautions that the psychosocial use of music-while potentially soothing-can reproduce cultural exclusion if uncontextualized. The paper argues that SafeWaves effectiveness depends less on technology than on localization, participatory governance, and ethical transparency. It concludes that when culturally adapted and co-produced, sound can serve as a humanitarian infrastructure of both information and solace, advancing the emerging field of humanitarian acoustics.