Introduction video – our work at Habitat Norway

Some facts about urbanisation and affordable housing – by Habitat Norway

 

 

World Habitat Day Conference 1 October 2012, House of Litterature, Oslo

The Urban Battleground – Effects of conflicts and wars in cities

 

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Synne Bergby, Habitat Norway
Welcome speech
Erik Berg, Ministry of Foreign Affair
Opening speech

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Aisa Kirabo Kasyira, Deputy Executive Director of UN Habitat
Emerging perspectives on cities in conflict

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Simon Reid-Henry, Reader in the School of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London and a
senior fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo
Urban Geopolitics: thinking critically about security, state violence and vulnerability in the city

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Martin Suvatne, Norwegian Refugee Council
When livelihoods are destroyed – what can we do?

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Nadine E., journalist and reporter for NOW Lebanon
There goes the neighborhood

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Lina Ben Mhenni, blogger, human rights activist
Habitat, Housing & Territorial and Urban Planning in Tunisia: impressions and thoughts of an ordinary citizen.