Proposed Panels

Proposed Panels & Papers

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Alternative session

Feminist crisis response amidst anti-rights politics and backlash: insights from hum. practice (BERGEN)
Organiser(s): Gabriela Villacis, Megan Daigle, Kaira Zoe Canete
Book Launch: An Introduction to Humanitarian Action (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Kristina Roepstorff
Refugee Leadership in Responses and Policies in Türkiye: a Syrian RLOs and Turkish CSOs Roundtable (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Leen Al Massalma, Kevin Pulley
Transformative leadership and coloniality of knowledge in the humanitarian space (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Carla Vitantonio
Compassion as Compass: A Reflective Journey for Humanitarians and Changemakers (BERGEN)
Organiser(s): Rayyan Haries
How can humanitarians leverage the experiences of persons with disabilities in humanitarian contexts (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Maria Kett
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Humanitarian Action: Anyone Still Interested? (BERGEN)
Organiser(s): Dennis Dijkzeul, Stephen Brown
Supporting Community-Led Responses (sclr) and Mutual Aid after the February 6th Earthquakes (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Kevin Pulley
In Defense of Humanity: Civilian Protection, Aid Work, and the Demise of IHL (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Emily K M Scott
The end for humanitarianism? Budget cuts, altered humanitarianism(s), and affected populations (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Emily K M Scott
Humanitarian Justice: a declaration of crisis-affected communities (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Dorothea Hilhorst
Strengthening Humanitarian Action Through Bottom-Up Research: Lessons from the RCRC Movement (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Louise Baumann
The future of humanitarian research (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Virginie Troit

Design, adaptation, and practice

Getting Ahead of Disasters by Connecting Early Warning and Anticipatory Action That Works for All (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Vladislav Kavaleuski
MHPSS in Crisis Zones: Psychosocial Liberation through Local Knowledge and Decolonised Practice (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Merve Özdenler, Gülsüm Özkaya, Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir
Humanitarian Aid Workers: Ethics, Altruism, and Best Practices (BERGEN)
Organiser(s): Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings, Nadine Voelkner
The Time is Now: The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Improving Humanitarian Systems (BERGEN)
Organiser(s): Andrea Steinke, Pinar Okur
Sexual and gender minorities, humanitarian action and the Triple Nexus (BERGEN)
Organiser(s): Stephen Brown, Dennis Dijkzeul, Morgane Rosier
AI solutions for humanitarian challenges (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Maria Kett, Tigmanshu Bhatnagar
Using Evaluation Evidence to Guide a Structured "Humanitarian Reset" (BERGEN)
Organiser(s): Julia Steets
Towards Plural Humanitarianisms: Decolonising Theory through Global-South Perspectives (BERGEN)
Organiser(s): Jan Říkovský
Reimagining Humanitarian Response in the Face of Compounding Global Risks (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Ilja Ormel
Reimagining Humanitarian Action: Innovations and Knowledge Infrastructures Driving Transformation (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Thaenpaavai Kannan, Helen Lindsay, Corinne Lamain
Ethical Exits and Future Trajectories: Reimagining Closure, Localisation and Humanitarian Practice (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Molly Gilmour, Isabel Muñoz Beaulieu, Melissa Gatter

International accountability and IHL

Humanitarian Accountability in Technology (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Jessica Robbins
The Forgotten Affected Population: Recognizing and Accounting for Crimes against Persons with Disabilities (BERGEN)
Organiser(s): Dennis Dijkzeul, William Pons
Protecting civilians in a changing world order (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Amra Lee

Politics of humanitarianism: power, influence, and governance

Beyond Trust: Rethinking Humanitarian Legitimacy in Times of Grassroots Power (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Kemal Arslantas
Adjusting to a Changing Humanitarian System: Practices from the Global South (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Oheneba Boateng
The politics of food and technology in changing global and local crises (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Susanne Jaspars, Iris Lim, Tamer Abd Elkreem, Christina Sathyamala
Reuniting Families, Upholding Rights: RFL between Policy, Practice, and Protection (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Anusha Zubairy Yıldız
Communities of Practice as Sites of Solidarity, Resistance and Shifting Power in Humanitarianism (BERGEN)
Organiser(s): Ricardo Fal-Dutra Santos
Resisting Border Violence: The Role of Civil Society, Local Actors, and Researchers (BERGEN)
Organiser(s): Heidi Mogstad, valentina benincasa
‘Real’ Humanitarian Governance: Accountability, Advocacy, and Alternatives (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Dorothea Hilhorst
Beyond Integration: Revisiting the Triple Humanitarian–Development–Peace (HDP) Nexus in Practice (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Rodrigo Mena, Andrés Felipe Gómez, Summer Brown, Camille Nussbaum, Christina Plesner Volkdal, Jaap Vuijk, Massimo Alone, Marina Ferrero Baselga, Andrea Steinke
Redrawing the Map: Rethinking Humanitarian Financing in Times of Structural Instability (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): İRFAN TATLI
The Politics and Empty Promises of Protection (BERGEN)
Organiser(s): Jasmine Westendorf, Lucy Hall
Understanding Voluntary and Dignified Return in a Rapidly Changing World (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Hafize Ece Yılmaztürk
Revisiting the Nexus Between Human Rights and Humanitarianism (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Talita Cetinoglu
The politics of humanitarian negotiations (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Kristoffer Lidén
Teaching Global Humanitarian Assistance in Turbulent Times: Challenges and Opportunities in Higher Education (BERGEN)
Organiser(s): Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings, Kirsten Gelsdorf

Understanding new trends in disasters, war, and polycrises

The Role(s) of Social Capital in Humanitarian Resilience in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Caitriona Dowd
Coping strategies of affected people in a resource-constrained environment (BERGEN)
Organiser(s): Clea Kahn
Disaster Risk Reduction in Fragile, Conflict-Affected, and Vulnerable (FCV) Contexts: Strategies for Protracted Crises (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Rodrigo Mena, Catalina Jaime, Kirstin Kreyscher, Laura Peters, Katie Peters, Ayesha Siddiqi
Humanitarianism in Protracted Crisis: Syria’s journey from Risk Reduction to Recovery, with Insights from Yemen and Beyond (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Rodrigo Mena, Thomas Ansell, mohamad diab, Ahmed Ekzayez
Contemporary Humanitarian Deadlock: People on the Move (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Zeynep Nur Sarı
Building Climate-Resilient Health Systems in Humanitarian Crises: Examples from Research and Practice (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Gillian McKay, Faiza Rab
Responding to humanitarian crises in the context of the Democratic Republic of Congo and similar contexts (ISTANBUL)
Organiser(s): Patrick Milabyo