Dialogue 2/4: Wars and Peacebuilding: What Hope Can the Spatial Disciplines Provide?

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JEDI Collective Interdisciplinary Dialogue Series Violence, Conflict and Space: Peacebuilding Contributions from the Spatial Disciplines 

Dialogue 2/4: Wars and Peacebuilding: What Hope Can the Spatial Disciplines Provide?
 

The rise in violent conflicts worldwide has brought war to the forefront of global life and politics. Ongoingconflicts in Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, and more, along with potential future wars inIran, China, and Russia, are devastating lives and deepening global divisions. These wars also causebroader disruptions, like increased poverty in the global south and mass displacement, with long-termimpacts on human settlements. 

While fields like architecture, urban planning, and real estate development cannot prevent war, they can playvital roles in emergency response and reconstruction. This prompts key questions: What lessons fromthese fields offer hope? Which strategies should be sustained and expanded?

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Panelists

Mohammad Gharipour
Director and Professor, Architecture Program
UMD School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation

Yosef Jabareen
Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Planning
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa;
Visiting Professor, Columbia University

Uma Gupta
Student, NOMAS & FAME Member,
UMD School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
 

Moderated by:

Matt Bell
Architecture Professor,
UMD School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation

Dialogue Series Schedule:

• October 29, 2024, 6 - 8:30 p.m.  |  Dialogue 1/4: Social Polarization Can the Spatial Disciplines Bring Us Closer Together?
• November 26, 2024, 6:30 - 8 p.m.  |  Dialogue 2/4: Wars and Peacebuilding: What Can the Spatial Disciplines Do?
• TBD  |  Dialogue 3/4: 
• TBD  |  Dialogue 4/4: