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Scholarly, policy, and practitioner efforts to understand the nexus between conflicts and natural disasters and to seek integrated ways to address them abound. As both conflicts and natural disasters have been increasing in intensity and frequency worldwide, awareness has grown about the devastating and unsustainable human and financial costs. Increasing inequalities between and within countries exacerbate these consequences for those who can least afford them. This entry examines the various manifestations of the relationship between conflict and disaster, and the ways in which they intersect and interact.
Introduction
Worldwide, violent conflict is ubiquitous in terms of both numbers of conflicts and intensity of conflicts. Generally, it is more protracted, more intractable, and is driving some 80% of humanitarian response (Oxfam 2019...
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Schwoebel, M.H., McCandless, E. (2021). Conflicts and Natural Disasters. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11795-5_144-1
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