In this Humanitarian Governance webinar, Dr Kyungmee Kim (Visiting Researcher at ISS and Assistant Professor at the Swedish Defense University) will present a case study of the double complexities of carrying out humanitarian interventions within a conflict zone using the example of the response to Cyclone Mocha in the Rakhine State in Myanmar.
- Assistant professor
- Researcher
- Date
- Wednesday 18 Jun 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
- Type
- Webinar
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Teams
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You will receive the Teams link in the registration confirmation email.
During the response to the cyclone, various humanitarian actors faced the moral dilemma and practical challenges of operating within territory governed by various armed groups including the Arakan Army, and during the ongoing civil war in Myanmar. With climate change likely to cause further climate-related humanitarian disasters in the future, necessitating coordination within more conflict zones, what are the major challenges that humanitarian actors and scholars face working in conflict zones?
The presentation will be followed by a reflection by Corinne Lamain, Coordinator of the Dutch Humanitarian Knowledge Platform KUNO, and a researcher in the confluence of climate, conflict, and security at ISS.
After the presentation and reflection, there will be time for Q&A.
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This webinar is an initiative of the Humanitarian Studies Centre (HSC) at ISS, which hosts the project ‘Humanitarian Governance: Accountability, Advocacy, Alternatives’ (HUM-GOV). The HUM-GOV Project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 884139.
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- Humanitarian governance: accountability, advocacy, alternatives
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