HSC 2024 One-Day Conference
‘Humanitarian Studies: Today and Tomorrow’
The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre convened around 160 practitioners and researchers on September 13th for the first HSC One-Day Conference, with the theme ‘Humanitarian Studies: Today & Tomorrow’. Over the course of three rounds of presentation sessions, attendees heard from 36 presenters from organisations and universities including the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Leiden University; Tilburg University, the University of Groningen, the White Helmets; Upinion, Expertise Centre for Humanitarian Communication, Clingendael, and many more.
Following an introduction by HSC Director Professor Thea Hilhorst, and a welcome from ISS Rector Professor Ruard Ganzevoort, the presentations began. The whole group reconvened in the afternoon for two keynote speakers: Professor Michael Barnett (George Washington University, online) and Suying Lai (Head of the Oxfam SAFE Unit and Chair of KUNO supervisory board). Professor Barnett addressed ‘the future of humanity’, considering the intersecting challenges of the politicisation of aid and a growing lack of trust in humanitarian principles. Suying Lai commented on the growing need for a renewed impetus behind humanitarian principles in the wake of crosscutting crises and institutional inertia.
We look forward to welcoming researchers, practitioners, and students to the next HSC One-Day Conference. For now, you can recap the different presentation topics and presenters from this year’s conference below:
Session 1 presentations
Delu Lusumbya, ‘Sexual exploitation and abuse: Implication of humanitarian workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’
Luisa Cortesi, ‘Guided discussion: “What forms of knowledge do we need to adapt to crisis and disaster?”’
Gabriela Villacis Izquierdo, ‘Feminisms and humanitarianisms: An unlikely relationship?’
Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel, ‘Why did the UN response to the crisis in Tigray fail?’
Juliane Schillinger, ‘Understanding conflict impacts to mitigate humanitarian crises? Opportunities for anticipatory action’
Arka Bhattacharyya & Sylvia Bergh, ‘Building Heatwave Resilience: A Pathway for Equitable Urban (Re)Developments in Rotterdam’
Khayal Trivedi, ‘TheImportance of Observations in Humanitarian Studies: Case of Extreme Heat and the Role of HOISA’
Santiago del Hierro, ‘Weaving territory: Collective actions to represent an ancestral landscape’
Maya Janmyr, ‘Research comics and storytelling: the Cardboard Camp experience’
Claire Tan, ‘Enabling Anticipatory Action for Migration by Understanding Mobility Decisions’
Tessa Ubels, ‘Situating research in the political economy of humanitarian aid: ethical reflections on fieldwork in migration contexts’
Chimwemwe Salie Hara, ‘A Humanitarian Governance Project in Southern Africa: A Case Study of Malawi’
Emiel Martens & Wouter Oomen, ‘White Saviours, Misery Simulations, Adventure Journeys and Individual Changemakers: Contemporary Storytelling Challenges in Dutch Humanitarian Communication’
Summer Brown, ‘Engagement in the HDP nexus from a national NGO perspective: The case study of South Sudan’
Session 2 presentations
Jesse Millek, ‘Humanitarian Studies: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow’
Alemayehu B. Hordofa, ‘Appraising Ethiopia’s Durable Solution Efforts to Internally Displaced Persons Based on International Human Rights Standards’
Juel Helge Rye, ‘Exploring the term “Humanitarian Context” in humanitarian crisis: a Scoping Literature Review’
Liv Toonen, ‘Using GIS for humanitarian purposes’
Abd-Alrahman Almawwas, ‘Neutrality and the Role of Humanitarians in Witnessing and Documenting Atrocities’
Thea Hilhorst, ‘Transactional Sex in Conflict – ListenH Project’
Thomas Breugem & Peter Das, ‘Digital technologies in humanitarian settings’
Camille Kasavan, ‘Utopian Solutions in a Non-Utopian World? Conceptions And Evolutions of International Protection as Humanitarian Governance’
Watfa Najdi, ‘Thinking Refugee Leadership and Humanitarian Funding from Lebanon: Selective Empowerment or Systemic Exclusion?’
Leela Koenig, ‘Are collective access negotiations the answer to a decreasing space for principled humanitarian action?’
Elvine Miala & Eva Oldenbuerger, ‘Trends and developments in humanitarian diplomacy’
Mohammad Kanfash, ‘Sanctions as Barriers to the Work of Humanitarian Organizations, the case of Syria’
Session 3 presentations
Chiara Anfuso, ‘Cybersecurity Threats, Challenges, and Current Strategies in Humanitarian Organizations: A Comprehensive Review’
Cecile De Milliano, ‘“Global North and “Global South” perceptions of decision-making power in partnerships’
Pieter Dronkers, ‘Providing Healthcare in East Jerusalem in the Context of the Israel-Gaza War’
Salvador Santino Regilme, ‘Reimagining United States Foreign Aid and the Post-Pandemic World Order’
Mansoob Murshed, ‘Galtung’s Negative Peace and Moral Hazard in Peaceful Behaviour’
Siobhan Airey, ‘“From Funding to Financing” via Blended Finance for development – new challenges to transparency, accountability and subjectivities of public and private actors in international development’
Noor Lekkerkerker, ‘Doing research with displaced people using online platforms: Upinion’s experience’
Joram Tarusarira, ‘Integrating values in climate change, conflict, migration and displacement discourse’
Vittorio Nespeca, ‘Measuring and evaluating Informational Boundary Spanners (IBSs)’
Kaira Zoe Cañete, ‘Humanitarian Observatories: Insights for Reforming Humanitarian Governance from Below’
Toka Mahmoud & Marah Echtai, ‘A Recovery Framework for Northwest Syria: A Grassroots Strategy for Sustainable Autonomy’
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