About the Event
Keynote Speakers
About the Event
Forced displacement is a major development challenge, not only a humanitarian concern. A surge in violent conflict, as well as increasing levels of disaster risk and environmental degradation driven by climate change, have forced people to leave or flee their homes – both internally displaced as well as refugees. These displacement situations are becoming increasingly protracted, many lasting over 5 years. There is a need to develop more sustainable and efficient ways to support the integration of displacees as well as their host communities.
Rebuilding displaced and host communities goes beyond addressing physical needs. It must also address socio-cultural, institutional, human capital, livelihood, and economic perspectives and promote social cohesion between displaced and host communities. There is now an emerging discourse on the role of the built environment, in a wider sense beyond the physical, in addressing these diverse needs.
This high-level, international symposium will encourage debate and discussion on how a holistic approach to the built environment can help address some of the challenges and provide effective policies and methods of rebuilding communities, as well as integrating new comers, after forced displacement. It will promote sharing knowledge among the research community and practitioners in the field and encourage multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral interaction. The symposium is organised by the project consortium of REGARD, a European Commission funded project.
Rebuilding displaced and host communities goes beyond addressing physical needs. It must also address socio-cultural, institutional, human capital, livelihood, and economic perspectives and promote social cohesion between displaced and host communities. There is now an emerging discourse on the role of the built environment, in a wider sense beyond the physical, in addressing these diverse needs.
This high-level, international symposium will encourage debate and discussion on how a holistic approach to the built environment can help address some of the challenges and provide effective policies and methods of rebuilding communities, as well as integrating new comers, after forced displacement. It will promote sharing knowledge among the research community and practitioners in the field and encourage multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral interaction. The symposium is organised by the project consortium of REGARD, a European Commission funded project.
Special Features
- Leading scientists around the world join online to share their knowledge and experience
- An opportunity to showcase and explore innovative research, policy and practice in an area that is gaining importance due to mounting refugee and displaced population numbers.
- Opportunity to publish presenter’s work in a scientific publication in the form of a book chapter with a renowned publisher
Key Outputs
A book of abstracts with an associated ISBN and DOI
High-quality submissions will be invited to publish in the book volume on ‘Rebuilding Communities after Displacement’ with Springer nature
Symposium Themes
Symposium Themes include but are not limited to built environment perspectives on:
- Understanding and managing for better response provision for displaced communities
- Governance of displacement/ Efforts to prevent and respond to internal displacement
- Economic and policy interventions for sustainable resettlement
- Resilience and environmental consideration of resettlement planning
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Social cohesion between displaced and host communities
Keynote Speakers
Dr Dalia AbdelhadyAssociate Professor, Lund University, SwedenTopic:
Interrogating Integration Discourses: Integration by whom? And into what?
Mr Sebastien PenziniDeputy Chief, Regional Office for Europe, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Mr Ricardo Fal-Dutra SantosRegional Coordinator - Americas, Europe and Central Asia, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), Geneva, Geneva, SwitzerlandTopic:
The increasing need to address disaster-related displacement, perspectives from Europe and Central Asia
Special Session
Panel Discussion on Cultural Complexities and Displacement
Nostalgia, Ecalgia, and Topalgia: An Overview
Susanna Hoffman Founder and chair of the Risk and Disaster Commission for the International Union of Anthropology and Ethnographic Sciences
The lucha and the loss in post-Matthew Cuba
Alicia Sliwinski Sociocultural anthropologist and associate professor in the Global Studies Department at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario
The becoming memory: On the mnemonic emergence of affect and emotion in forced displacement
Roberto E. BarriosDoris Zemurray Stone Chair of Latin American Studies and Professor on the Department of Anthropology and Sociology University of New Orleans
Planning for Cultural Continuity in Climate Change Driven Resettlement in Panama
Anthony Oliver-Smith Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Florida
“How to Live?” Displacement and the Self
Marcia Rosalie Hale Assistant Professor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at University of North Carolina, Greensboro
What Dreams May Come: Imaginings of Home in the Lives of Australia’s Stolen Generations
Fiona MurphyAnthropologist and senior lecturer Queens University, Belfast
“Turning Homelands into Gardens:” Challenges of Home Reconstruction in Chinese Ethnic Qiang Villages
Qiaoyun Zhang Assistant professor at Beijing Normal University--Hong Kong Baptist University United International College
Chaired by:
Professor Mo HamzaConference Chair | Lund University, Sweden
Date and time: 13th Dec 2021
15:00-17:00 (CET)
- Joining Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85332813659
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Contact details
Prof Mo HamzaDivision of Risk Management and Societal Safety, Lund University, Sweden.
Dr Chathuranganee JayakodyGlobal Disaster Resilience Centre, University of Huddersfield, UK.