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?
 

This Dialogue Series focuses on conversations among scholars, community members, and students reflecting on the relationship between violence and built environment disciplines and practices (architecture, urban design, planning, historic preservation, real estate, and related fields) and opportunities for peacebuilding. 

The Series is hosted by the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (MAPP) in the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 semesters. This is a MAPP offering in the context of our JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) initiatives. 

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
 

Moderator:

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

Interdisciplinary Dialogue Series Youtube Recording:

**Dialogue 2/4:Wars and Peacebuilding: What Can the Spatial Disciplines Do?**The rise in violent conflicts worldwide has brought war to the forefront of global life and politics. Ongoing conflicts in many countries worldwide, along with potential future wars, are devastating lives and deepening global divisions. These wars also cause broader disruptions, like increased poverty in the Global South and mass displacement, with long-term impacts on human settlements.

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

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?
• March 13, 2025, 1 - 2:30 p.m.  |  Dialogue 3/4: Climate Change and Disasters
• April 16, 2025, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.  |  Dialogue 4/4: Disrupting Slow Violence: Untapping the Healing Power of the Spatial Disciplines