Disasters in conflict areas: finding the politics

Despite some 50 years of research, relatively little is known about how disasters in conflict areas are created and discursively framed, and how information on them is publicly consumed. The emphasis in disaster studies has remained on establishing causal linkages, demonstrating the way in which natural hazard‐related disasters result in deepening conflict, or ushering in peace. Furthermore, it has been accepted that disaster risk reduction is...