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12 October 2022 - 13 October 2022

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This conference theme tackles the vital issue of what governments and institutions need to do before and after disasters. What more should be done in the planning process to build capacity and resilience? What more can be improved in the response to disasters that will help to ensure the safety and wellbeing of those affected?

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IHRR Annual Conference 2022

Over these two days we will bring together a range of perspectives from across disciplines to address multiple hazards, their associated risks and discuss how to plan for a resilient future. We will consider multiple forms of resilience building – including hazard mapping, spatial planning, early warning systems and policy change – as well as opportunities to improve the initial emergency response and subsequent rebuilding of communities and infrastructure.

 

Programme

 

12th October 2022

14:00 - 19:15 (BST)

  

Hybrid (Zoom) Workshop

If attending in person all sessions are held in Van Mildert College.

 

Register to attend in person by emailing ihrr.admin@durham.ac.uk

Register to attend online via Zoom here.

 

"The Future of Cash Assistance & the Future of Humanitarian Aid to People on the Move"

Dr Lauren Martin & Dr Hanna Ruszczyk, Durham University GLiTCH project.

 

14:00 – 14.05       Welcome & Introductions from Dr Carly Beckerman, Executive Director                      (Interim), IHRR

 

14:05 – 14:50       Keynote speaker

 

                              Dr Martina Tazzioli

 

“The automated gate let me go out, but I feel in prison”: rethinking control over refugees through and beyond technological disruptions

 

14:50 – 15:00       Break

 

15:00 – 16:00       Where can digital cash assistance lead us? 

Digital cash assistance has become mainstreamed as the main modality of humanitarian assistance. In this session we ask panellists: What do you think are the sources of tension and opportunities in the next three – five years for the sector regarding digitalisation, cash and the localisation agenda?  What do you find exciting and what do you worry about?

 

Panellists

Karen Peachey, CALP Network

Hanna Mattinen, UNHCR

Marvin Parvez, Community World Service Asia/Alliance for empowering partnership (A4EP)

Liz Hendry, Norwegian Refugee Council

 

16:00 – 16:15     break

 

16:15 – 17:15     What does a post humanitarian future look like?

We question the complexities, the shadows that prevent us from seeing and listening to possibilities where we can create a better future, a post humanitarian future where the power dynamics are more equitable and just. Recent advances in humanitarian aid are being facilitated by technology and digital connectivity (i.e., digital cash and biometric data). Where this may lead the sector and its relationships with beneficiaries, with national governments, with organisations and with the private sector is being explored. Six years after the Grand Bargain, there are possibilities for multiple futures. In this session, we ask our panellists: How do you define a post humanitarian future? What do you think the (post) humanitarian future looks like?

 

Panellists

Juliet Parker, ALNAP  

Dr Kathryn Taetzsch, World Vision

Patrick Saez, ODI Humanitarian Policy Group

Dr Will Plowright, Durham University

Dr Bina D’Costa, Australian National University

 

17:15 – 17:30     break

 

17:30 – 17:35     Introduction from Professor Karen O’Brien, VC

 

17:35 – 18:30     Keynote Lecture

 

Mr David Shukman

Reporting from the climate frontlines

 

18:30 – 19:15     Drinks reception

 

19:15 Dinner (invited guests only)

 

 

13th October 2022

10:00 - 18:00 (BST)

 

10:00 – 10:15     Welcome by Dr Carly Beckerman (Interim) Executive Director, IHRR

 

10:15 – 11:00     Keynote Lecture

 

Mr Colin McQuistan, Practical Action

“Building Resilience”

 

11:00 – 11:30     Building Resilience – Chair Dr Sim Reaney, Co-Director, IHRR

 

Dr Sim Reaney – Building a hyper-local, community driven, flood early warning system

 

Professor Julian Williams & Professor Frank Krauss – JUNE - open-source individual-based epidemics model

 

11:30 – 11:45   Break

 

11.45 – 12.15      Lightening Talks – Professor David Toll, Co-Director, IHRR

 

Mr Ivo Pink, PhD Student, IHRR - Predicting future floods from climate ensembles

 

Dr Aaron Neill, PDRA, IHRR – Tracing source areas of hydrological hazards to optimise spatially-targeted mitigation: A multi-agent approach

 

Dr Rebekah Harries, PDRA, IHRR - Impact of climate change on catchment connectivity and sediment mobility

 

Ms Ellen Robson, PDRA, IHRR - Slope stability in lower-income countries

 

12:15 - 13:00      Keynote Lecture

 

Apiniti Jotisankasa, Kasetsart University, Thailand

“Bio-slope engineering: a community-led nature-based solution for sustainable slopes in Thailand”

 

13:00 - 13:45      Lunch

 

13:45 - 14:45      Event Response - Chair Dr Carly Beckerman, (Interim) Executive Director, IHRR

 

Dr Elizabeth Kahn, SGIA - Human Rights, Social Structure & Security

 

Dr Hanna Ruszczyk, Geography - Changing architecture of urban governance

 

Ms Laura Dobson, Civil Contingencies Officer, Durham County Council – Building community resilience since Storm Arwen

 

14:45 – 15:30     Keynote Lecture

 

Professor Bruce Malamud, Kings College London

Challenges facing our understanding of natural hazards: A natural hazard community perspective

 

15:30 – 15:45   Break

 

15:45 - 16:15    After Disasters Network – Chair Dr Carly Beckerman, (Interim) Executive Director, IHRR

 

Mrs Kate Cochrane, Professor in Practice, IHRR – After Disasters – building a Network to support what happens next

 

Mr Neil Denton, Professor in Practice, IHRR - Sea walls won't save us, building bridges might

 

16:15 – 16:45     Panel Discussion and reflections. Chaired by Dr Carly     Beckerman, (Interim) Executive Director, IHRR

 

16:45 - 17:00    Closing note from Dr Carly Beckerman, (Interim) Executive Director, IHRR

 

17:00 - 18:00    Drinks reception

 

18:30                  Conference dinner (invited guests only)

 

Download the full programme: IHRR Annual Conference 2022 full programme

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