Proposed Panels

Proposed Panels & Papers

Click on a panel to read the abstract and see the submitted papers.
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): Tanja Müller
Climate Change and Humanitarianism
Organiser(s): Ilan Kelman
Disaster Diplomacy for Humanitarianism
Organiser(s): Ilan Kelman
Participation and Accountability in Humanitarian Disaster Management
Organiser(s): Femke Mulder
What is holding us back? Humanitarian Reform and the Shift to Locally-Led Response
Organiser(s): Larissa Fast
Alternative Humanitarian Principles & Non-Traditional Humanitarians
Organiser(s): Roanne van Voorst
Children and Improved Crisis Response
Organiser(s): Rigmor Argren
Social Museology and Social Role of Museums
Organiser(s): Marcelo Murta
The active role of Higher Education Institutes & local actors in understanding and responding to the needs of crisis-affected communities
Organiser(s): Joe Munnelly
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
More than (Buzz)Words: Participation in Humanitarian Practice
Organiser(s): Elias Sagmeister
Key Humanitarian Concepts in Historical Perspective
Organiser(s): Pierre Fuller
Let’s make sure that Local Humanitarian Leadership means more women’s leadership in the humanitarian sector
Organiser(s): Tara Gingerich
Criminalizing Starvation
Organiser(s): Alex de Waal
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
Money Talks. Exploring Funding Solutions for Localized Humanitarian Response
Organiser(s): 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
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
When Humanitarian Knowledge Hits the Road; Matching Learning Needs with Context
Organiser(s): Shadi Saleh
What have we learned about adapting research methodologies for use in humanitarian crisis contexts?
Organiser(s): Anne Harmer
Localising Research on Humanitarian Concepts
Organiser(s): Clara Egger

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

Rethinking Cash Assistance within Humanitarian Response
Organiser(s): Talita Cetinoglu
States and Humanitarian INGOs: Principles, Politics, and Identities
Organiser(s): Andrew Cunningham
Migration, Protracted Crisis and Humanitarianism
Organiser(s): Susanne Jaspars
Displacement and respect for IHL: Introducing a costs and benefits approach
Organiser(s): Vincent Bernard
Negotiating Humanitarian Access in Violent Conflict
Organiser(s): Roanne van Voorst
Changing the paradigm on water programming in fragile and dry contexts
Organiser(s): Timmo Gaasbeek
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): Ronan McDermott
Tackling Inhumanity
Organiser(s): Antonio Donini
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
The New Determinant of Humanitarian Access and Patterns of Reach in Syria and Yemen – Risk, Banks and Counter Terrorist Financing Legislation
Organiser(s): DS Gordon

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
Connected Refugees: Opportunities and Challenges of Communication Technologies for Refugees
Organiser(s): Benjamin Hounsell
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
Ethics and Technology in Humanitarian Settings
Organiser(s): Dónal O'Mathúna
The World in Humanitarian Objects: Power, Change, Care and Control
Organiser(s): Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
Interrogating Humanitarian Technology: Critical Perspectives on Data
Organiser(s): Aaron Martin
Humanitarianism and Media
Organiser(s): Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert