GTD colloquium: ‘Where disaster meets conflict’ on 16 March

Globalisation, Transnationalism & Development Colloquium: ‘Where disaster meets conflict’

Speaker: Prof. Dorothea Hilhorst, Professor of humanitarian aid and reconstruction, Institute of Social Studies, EUR

When: Wednesday 16 March, 15.30-17.30
Where: Attic (3.002) Soiron building, Grote Gracht 80-82

Abstract:
Every year, there are some 400 disasters triggered by natural hazards, mostly in developing countries. An estimated one third of these disasters strike in countries affected by conflict. The co-incidence of disaster and conflict receives little scholarly and policy attention. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, for example, does not speak about conflict contexts and assumes there is a working government at the heart of the disaster response.

The lecture will argue that the co-incidence of disaster and conflict is an important issue to address, because of the existing evidence that conflict aggravates disaster and that, vice versa, disaster may intensify conflict. It will review the current insights on the nexus between disaster and conflict, and suggest some pertinent issues for future research.

Upcoming GTD colloquia:
– April 13: Johannes Paulmann (Leibniz-Institute of European History, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität)
– June 1: Paul Silverstein (Reed College, visiting Leuven)

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