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Chair: Prof Haim Yacobi, UCL Development Planning Unit (DPU)
Confirmed Panellists: Prof Camillo Boano, UCL DPU; Dr Jenevieve Mannell, UCL IGH
Urban areas are central locus of state violence, structured inequalities and trauma, and according to the ICRC (2015) over 50 million people today are directly affected by entrenched forms of violence, whether through war, forced displacement and/or sociopolitical exclusion. Under such global burden, it seems necessary to systematically analyse the different spatial disruptions brought by violence and align them with the health effects it brings on both collectives and individuals on one hand, and to critically discuss humanitarian approach to it on the other. Consequently in this panel we aim focussing on three key questions:
1. How current research on conflict and health can be approached as the study of spatial violence, where violence is understood as a form of social, (geo)political and economic order, that is not an interruption but rather a sustained process?
2. How space\health nexus becomes an equally (geo)political and economic actor?
What is the impact (and limitations) of humanitarian organisations, discourses and practices of intervention in health, human safety, rights, opportunities and risks?