Humanitarian challenges in contexts of conflict and complex emergency

The Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS) Research Network on Humanitarian Efforts.

This event aims to gather researchers to present ongoing work related to humanitarian efforts broadly speaking, and to exchange on common challenges and how to better address issues raised in the humanitarian sector.

This full-day event is free and open to all.

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Program

• 09:00 Welcome and introduction, Antonio De Lauri
• 09:10 The annual activities of the NCHS, Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert
• 09:15 Humanitarian Negotiations: Practices and Challenges
  Panel: Elizabeth C. Dunn, Claude Bruderlein, Cristina Churruca, Salla Turunen
  Moderator: Antonio Donini
• 10:45 State’s Humanitarian Diplomacy
  Panel: Sultan Barakat, Deniz Gokalp, Meliha Altunisik
  Moderator: Antonio De Lauri
• 12:00 Lunch
• 13:00 SuperCamp: Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East
  Roundtable: Are Knudsen, Rebecca Bryant, Kamel Dorai, Benjamin White, Kjersti Berg, Synnøve Bendixsen
• 14:00 The Place of Data and Digital Bodies in Humanitarian Operations
  Kristin B. Sandvik and Larissa Fast
• 14:45 Coffee break
• 15:15 Annual Lecture: Is Independent Medical Humanitarian Assistance Possible in Today’s Conflicts?
  Morten Rostrup
  Discussant: Dorothea Hilhorst

Welcome!