Rebuilding Communities After Displacement

Rebuilding After Displacement: Identifying the Needs of Displaced Communities from the Perspective of the Built Environment.- Micro-narratives on People's Perception of Climate Change and its Impact on Their Livelihood and Migration: Voices from the Indigenous Aymara People in the Bolivian Andes.- From Zero to Hero? Changes in the Estonian Context for Refugees.- Challenges of Resilience Building Among Traditional Agricultural Communities Displaced by the Landslides.- Displaced Fishermen off the Coast: Impact of Multiple Hazards on Life Above the Water.- Drivers of Slow-onset Displacement in the Coastal Mid-Atlantic Region and Preferences for Receiving Locations.- Living with Landslide Risks: A Case of Resistance to Relocation Among Vulnerable Households Residing in the Kegalle District of Sri Lanka.- Internal Displacement in Nigeria: What are the Preventive Measures?.- An Architectural Analysis of Tsunami Re-settlement Villages of South of Sri Lanka.- Forced Displacement Following Reconstruction Approaches After 2005 Zarand Earthquake, Iran.- Disaster Induced Relocation of Vulnerable Households: Evidence from Planned Relocation in Sri Lanka.- How are Tamil Villages Reconstructed? Ethnography of Place-Making in Post-war Reconstruction in Sri Lanka.- Reproducing Vulnerabilities Through Forced Displacement: A Case Study of Flood Victims in Galle District, Sri Lanka.- Verticalised Slums, Governmentality and Pandemic Governance: A Critical Hermeneutical Analysis of Governance Practices in a Selected Urban High-Rise in Colombo, Sri Lanka.- Policy Recommendations for Built Environment Professional Bodies in Upgrading their Professional Competencies to Address Displacement Contexts.- Socio-economic Effects of War Against Terror Induced Displacement on Host Communities in District Kohat, Pakistan.- Social Capital and Community Organizing

Mo Hamza is Professor of Risk Management and Societal Safety at Lund University, Sweden. In his career spanning 36 years so far, he has worked with international development organisations including: World Bank, ADB, UNDP, UNISDR, USAID, DfID, IFRC, IUCN, Swedish Red Cross, and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB). His primary areas of professional expertise and research work are: Disaster risk and vulnerability reduction, post-disaster recovery, climate change impact and adaptation in fragile and failed states, and environmental displacement. Previously he was Chair of Social Vulnerability Studies at the United Nations University, Bonn, Germany; a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden and an advisor to the MIT Climate CoLab. He has undertaken consultancy and research work in: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Botswana, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Uganda, UK, South Eastern Europe and the Balkan States. He is currently an advisor to the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) where he is responsible for their capacity development processes. Among various and more recent publications, Mo Hamza was the co-guest editor of a double special issue in Global Discourse Journal (2022) "Critical Exploration of Crisis: Politics, Precariousness and Potentialities", and the author of "Refugees' Integration in the Built Environment - The Sweden Case" in Sustainability Journal 2021. He was also the lead author and editor of the World Disasters Report (2015) "Focus on local actors, the key to humanitarian effectiveness".
Prof. Amaratunga a leading international expert in disaster resilience with an extensive academic career that has a strong commitment to encouraging colleagues and students to fulfil their full potential. Currently she is leading University of Huddersfield, UK's Global Disaster Resilience Centre. She  is