The difference between emergency and post-disaster shelter for people affected by war has become increasingly blurred over the past few decades, explains Sultan Barakat, founding director of the Post-War Reconstruction Unit at the University of York, United Kingdom, in this audio interview with Imogen Mathers. He discusses the complex politics of refugee response and humanitarian solutions, and how the protracted nature of many contemporary wars is making crisis-affected people even more vulnerable. 

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The different phases of emergency shelter and post-war reconstruction

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