Disability Inclusion in Humanitarian Crises: Robust Human Rights Norms?

Carolin Funke is an expert in disability inclusion and internal displacement. She currently works at TU Dortmund University and is research affiliate at the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London. Before, she was postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at Ruhr University Bochum and research fellow at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University. She has conducted extensive field research in Georgia and Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Her latest book "Durable Solutions: Challenges with Implementing Global Norms for Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia" was published in 2022.

Dennis Dijkzeul is Professor of conflict and organization research at Ruhr University Bochum. He was the founding director of the Humanitarian Affairs Program at Columbia University in New York. He has conducted research on international and local organizations in the United States, Europe, DR Congo, Uganda, South Sudan, and Afghanistan. His latest books are "The New Humanitarians in International Practice: Emerging Actors and Contested Principles" (2016, with Zeynep Sezgin), "Diaspora Organizations in International Affairs" (2020, with Margit Fauser), and "International Organizations Revisited: Agency and Pathology in a Multipolar World" (2021, with Dirk Salomons).