Paper details
| Paper authors | Ronak Patel, Kelsey Gleason, Caitriona Dowd |
| In panel on | Conflict and Hunger: Untangling the Connections and Building Food System Resilience |
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Abstract
Urban violence often lies outside the purview of international humanitarian law when it does not reach the recognition of Non-Internationalized Armed Conflict (NIAC). The impacts on morbidity and mortality, however, can exceed those in active internationalized conflict and post-conflict zones. While the organization, intensity and political goals of urban violent actors are debated in making determinations, their impacts on food systems can be insightful to this discussion as well as informing program and policy interventions. This paper will leverage a breadth of data from Haiti to explore the pathways that urban violent actors impact food systems to drive both food insecurity and state level fragility. These findings are valuable for seeing a way through the paralysis of international responses to urban violence. This research employs a fuzzy cognitive modeling systems analysis to interrogate the impacts of conflict and outcomes of potential interventions aimed at mitigating the impact on food systems and related livelihoods.
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