Proposed Panels

Proposed Panels & Papers

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To submit a paper to one of the panels, please visit the Call for Papers page.

Changing Actors, Views and Challenges from Below

Transitory Spaces and Insurgent Citizenship Practices: Refugee and Migrant Activists as Humanitarian and Political Actors
Organiser(s): Katarzyna Grabska and Tanja R. Müller
Climate Change and Humanitarianism
Organiser(s): IIan Kelman
Disaster Diplomacy for Humanitarianism
Organiser(s): IIan Kelman
Participation and Accountability in Humanitarian Disaster Management
Organiser(s): Kees Boersma, Femke Mulder, Nimesh Dhungana, Corinna Frey
What is holding us back? Humanitarian Reform and the Shift to Locally-Led Response
Organiser(s): Larissa Fast, Christina Bennett
Alternative Humanitarian Principles & Non-Traditional Humanitarians
Organiser(s): Roanne van Voorst
Children and Improved Crisis Response
Organiser(s): Rigmor Argren, Jessica Jonsson
Social Museology and Social Role of Museums
Organiser(s): Diana Bogado, Erica Abreu, Judite Primo, Marcelle Pereira, Marcelo Murta, Paula Assunção and Vânia Brayner
The active role of Higher Education Institutes & local actors in understanding and responding to the needs of crisis-affected communities
Organiser(s): Joe Munnelly, Holly Dignam
The agency of aid recipients
Organiser(s): Ralf Otto
Precarity and Debt: The Vicissitudes of Credit and “Upliftment” in Asia and Africa
Organiser(s): Vagisha Gunasekara
Humanitarianism from below: analysing the views, values and practices of local and national aid actors
Organiser(s): Clara Egger, Edith Favoreu
More than (Buzz)Words: Participation in Humanitarian Practice
Organiser(s): Elias Sagmeister
Key Humanitarian Concepts in Historical Perspective
Organiser(s): Pierre Fuller, Eleanor Davey, Bertrand Taithe, Laure Humbert, Andrew Newby, Steffen Werther, Norbert Gotz, Georgina Brewis, Antoine Burgard, Julia Irwin
Let’s make sure that Local Humanitarian Leadership means more women’s leadership in the humanitarian sector
Organiser(s): Tara Gingerich, Namalie Jayasinghe
Criminalizing Starvation
Organiser(s): Alex de Waal; Wayne Jordash; Catriona Murdoch
Local humanitarian leadership and faith: humanitarian INGOs, local faith actors, and religious literacy
Organiser(s): Tara Gingerich
Humanitarian Aid, European Civil Protection, and Domestic Disaster Management in the European Refugee/Migrant Crisis and Beyond
Organiser(s): Daniel F. Lorenz, Cordula Dittmer
Money Talks. Exploring Funding Solutions for Localized Humanitarian Response
Organiser(s): Tilleke Kiewied and Petra Righetti
Volunteer Humanitarians in Europe: their Role, Significance and Potential Implications for the Humanitarian Sector
Organiser(s): John Borton

Humanitarian Studies and the WHS Humanitarian Scholar Commitments

What do Practitioners Really Need from Academics? Searching for Best Practices
Organiser(s): Martin Quack, Peter Heintze
Action or Impact: How should we monitor progress in the World Humanitarian Summit?
Organiser(s): Alice Obrecht
Collaborative humanitarian research – creating stronger pathways for impact
Organiser(s): Sarah Palmer-Felgate, Sheree Bennett
When Humanitarian Knowledge Hits the Road; Matching Learning Needs with Context
Organiser(s): Shadi Saleh, Hussein Ismail, Farah Sbeity, Fida Abu Hassan
What have we learned about adapting research methodologies for use in humanitarian crisis contexts?
Organiser(s): Anne Harmer, Janna Metzler
Localising Research on Humanitarian Concepts
Organiser(s): Doris Schopper, Clara Egger

The Changing Realities of Crisis and Responses to Crises, Including Humanitarianism

Rethinking Cash Assistance within Humanitarian Response
Organiser(s): Talita Cetinoglu, Volkan Yilmaz
States and Humanitarian INGOs: Principles, Politics, and Identities
Organiser(s): Andrew Cunningham
Migration, Protracted Crisis and Humanitarianism
Organiser(s): Susanne Jaspars, Margie Buchanan-Smith
Displacement and respect for IHL: Introducing a costs and benefits approach
Organiser(s): Vincent Bernard, Cédric Cotter
Negotiating Humanitarian Access in Violent Conflict
Organiser(s): Roanne van Voorst, Jan Pospisil
Changing the paradigm on water programming in fragile and dry contexts
Organiser(s): Timmo Gaasbeek, Maarten Onneweer, Daniela Benedicto van Dalen
One humanitarian club or many? The setting up of boundaries between and among humanitarian organizations
Organiser(s): Andrea Schneiker
A New Political Economy of Humanitarian Aid?
Organiser(s): Juliano Fiori
Humanitarian advocacy
Organiser(s): Miriam Bradley
Armed non-state actors and humanitarian action
Organiser(s): Miriam Bradley
Can Standards and Reforms Drive Effective Change?
Organiser(s): Bonaventure Gbetoho Sokpoh
Urban Preparedness and Resilience
Organiser(s): Pat Gibbons, Cristina Churruca Muguruza, Hans-Joachim Heintze, Joost Herman, Siswanto Wilopo
Tackling Inhumanity
Organiser(s): Antonio Donini, Cristina Churruca, Norah Niland and the UAI Collective
Resilience: Blurring the Humanitarian and Development Boundary
Organiser(s): Ronak Patel
Post-Humanitarian Ecologies: from Spill-over Effects to Ambiguous Territorial Control in Chronic and Recurring Crises
Organiser(s): Bram Jansen, Gemma van der Haar
The New Determinant of Humanitarian Access and Patterns of Reach in Syria and Yemen – Risk, Banks and Counter Terrorist Financing Legislation
Organiser(s): Rawaad Mahyub

The Impact of Technology and Innovation in Coping with, Responding to and Transforming Crisis

Professionalizing the Use of Information Communication Technologies and Data in Crisis Response
Organiser(s): Stuart Campo, Nathaniel Raymond
Connected Refugees: Opportunities and Challenges of Communication Technologies for Refugees
Organiser(s): Benjamin Hounsell, Hervé Nicolle, Samuel Hall
Eye in the Sky: Drones and Other Remote Sensing Technologies in Humanitarian Aid
Organiser(s): Faine Greenwood
Responsible Innovation: One Step Forward-Two Steps Back
Organiser(s): Kirsten Gelsdorf, Rahul Chandran
Ethics and Technology in Humanitarian Settings
Organiser(s): Dónal O'Mathúna, Matthew Hunt
The World in Humanitarian Objects: Power, Change, Care and Control
Organiser(s): Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
Interrogating Humanitarian Technology: Critical Perspectives on Data
Organiser(s): Linnet Taylor, Aaron Martin
Humanitarianism and Media
Organiser(s): Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert, Timothy Wolfer