Crises, Conflict, and Disability: Ensuring Equality – David Mitchell and Valerie Karr (Eds.)
Editor(s): David Mitchell and Valerie Karr
Publisher: Routledge
Print Length: 260 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Law
Topic: Conflict & Post-Conflict, Crisis / Crises, Disability, Disaster, Equality & Inequality, Humanitarian Action & Humanitarianism, Policy & Practice, Resilience, Shelter, United Nations, War, Woman and Femininity
People with disabilities are among the most adversely affected during conflict situations or when natural disasters strike. They experience higher mortality rates, have fewer available resources and less access to help, especially in refugee camps, as well as in post-disaster environments. Already subject to severe discrimination in many societies, people with disabilities are often overlooked during emergency evacuation, relief, recovery and rebuilding efforts.
Countries party to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities must take all necessary measures to ensure the protection and safety of people with disabilities during situations of armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies, and natural disasters. Such aid should be designed to support preparedness, response, recovery and rebuilding. This book includes perspectives from around the globe and explores the implications at the policy, programme, and personal level, discussing issues such as:
- How can national laws, policies, and regulations provide guidance, methods and strategies to integrate and coordinate inclusive emergency management?
- What should people with disabilities know in order to be prepared for emergency situations? What lessons have we learned from past experiences?
- What are the current shortfalls (physical and cultural) that put people with disabilities at risk during emergencies and what can be done to improve these situations (e.g. through new technologies and disaster planning)?
- How does disability affect people’s experiences as refugees and other displaced situations; what programmes and best practices are in place to protect and promote their rights during their period of displacement?
- How must disabled people with disabilities be factored in to the resettlement and rebuilding process; does an opportunity for ensuring universal access exist in the rebuilding process?
- What is the impact of disasters and conflicts on such special populations as disabled women, disabled children, and those with intellectual disabilities?
Spotlighting a pressing issue that has long been neglected in emergency planning fields, this innovative book discusses how to meet the needs of people with disabilities in crises and conflict situations. It is an important reference for all those working in or researching disability and inclusion, and emergency and disaster management, both in developed and developing countries.
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Foreword – BARONESS AMOS
Preface – HASSAN ALI BIN ALI
1 Introduction – VALERIE KARR AND DAVID MITCHELL
PART I
Overview
2 War, law and disability: ensuring equality in situations of crisis – MARY CROCK, NAOMI HART AND RON MCCALLUM
3 Disability, natural disasters, conflict, humanitarian emergencies: the work of the United Nations – AKIKO ITO
4 Mainstreaming disability into humanitarian responses – ARMANDO J. VASQUEZ BARRIOS
5 Bridging the humanitarian–disability divide: from gaps to changes in policy and practice – DALE BUSCHER AND EMMA PEARCE
6 Participatory strategies for raising the preparedness of persons with disabilities during crises, conflicts or natural disasters – JHALUKPREYA SURUJLAL AND ROLF GAEDE
7 Women with disabilities leading the way toward inclusive emergency response – SUSAN DUNN AND SUSAN SYGALL
8 Excluded from a health crisis? HIV and persons with disabilities – POUL ROHLEDER, ARNE HENNING EIDE AND LESLIE SWARTZ
9 Disability in Bangladesh: the evolution of programmes and services – SAIMA HOSSAIN
PART II
Disability and disaster
10 Natural hazards: enhancing disaster preparedness and resilience of people with disabilities – BADAOUI ROUHBAN
11 Practical strategies to meet the rights of persons with disabilities in disaster management initiatives – JANET NJELESANI, SHAUN CLEAVER AND MYROSLAVA TATARYN
12 Shelter for people with disabilities – MIKE MEANEY
13 The ERASE-STRESS (ES) programmes: teacher-delivered universal school-based programmes in the aftermath of disasters – RONY BERGER
14 GETTING REAL – promising practices in disability-inclusive emergency management for the whole community: a case study of the United States – MARCIE ROTH
15 Australia developing inclusiv emergency management – SUSAN STORK-FINLAY
16 The Canterbury earthquakes: preparedness, response and recovery – JILL MITCHELL
17 Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami: the paradox of community-living and disaster – NAGASE OSAMU
18 Environmental degradation and disability: scattered research, policy and practice – MIRELLA SCHWINGE AND MICHELLE PROYER
PART III
Disability and conflict
19 Getting disability on the post-conflict agenda: the role of a disability movement – REBECCA IRVINE
20 Intellectual disabilities in humanitarian assistance policy and practice: the need to consider the diversity within disability – BRIGITTE ROHWERDER
21 Children with disabilities: neglected during peacetime, forgotten during conflict – ANDREA CANEPA
22 Sectarianism, sanctions and invasion: the challenge of promoting educational equality in Iraq – SUSIE MILES AND ALISON ALBORZ
23 The past dividing the present: Nicaragua’s legacy of war shaping disability rights today – STEPHEN MEYERS
24 Caught between a rock and a hard place: challenges of refugees with disabilities and their families in Uganda – EUNICE OWINY AND YUSRAH NAGUJJA
25 Disability in New Zealand resettlement of refugees: the new hop for equity – CELIA BRANDON AND ALIA BLOOM
26 The July–August 2006 war in Lebanon: the impact on persons with disabilities – NAWAF KABBARA AND JAHDA ABOU KHALIL
27 Conclusions
DAVID MITCHELL AND VALERIE KARR
Index
David Mitchell is an actor, writer and comedian best known for shows including That Mitchell and Webb Look and Peep Show
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/davidmitchell
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Valerie Karr is the founding partner and President of Inclusive Development Partners.
Source: https://chemonics.com/person/valerie-karr/
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