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When disasters and conflicts collide: improving links between disaster resilience and conflict prevention
February 2013
Katie Harris, David Keen and Tom Mitchell
From 2005-2009, more than 50% of people affected by ‘natural’ disasters lived in fragile and conflict-affected states. Recently, a number of high profile disasters in fragile and conflict-affected states have increased attention on the concurrence of disasters and conflict, and there is an expectation that disasters and conflict will coincide more in the future.
Read the full report from the Overseas Development Institute