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Assignment on Conflict Crisis and Environmental Health
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Added on 2020-04-21
Assignment on Conflict Crisis and Environmental Health
Added on 2020-04-21
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Running head: CONFLICT CRISES AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTHConflict crises and environmental healthName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
1CONFLICT CRISES AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTHTable of ContentsIntroduction:....................................................................................................................................3Complications in crisis situations....................................................................................................4Onset of diseases in conflict situation:............................................................................................6Crucial importance of sanitation and hygiene:................................................................................7Crucial importance of clean water:................................................................................................10Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11References:....................................................................................................................................13
2CONFLICT CRISES AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTHIntroduction:The conflict situation, regardless of the underlying situation behind it, gives rise to anumber of key challenges. The political violence and brutality might be the reason behind animmense loss of human resource for the vulnerable region, another very influential impact of thewar or conflict crisis brutalities is the phenomenon of mass migration. It has to be understoodthat the history has witnessed the concept of mass migration time and time again and yet theworld is nowhere hear ready to house the huge quantity of people fleeing from the horror in theircountry during a conflict crisis. As an inevitable result the number of refugees is risingalarmingly all across the globe (Wolf et al. 2014).The living conditions of the refugees are blasphemous considering the lifestyle of thenatives, and the refugees are not even provided the access to the vital human rights likesanitation, hygiene and clean water. As a result, the infectious diseases and health adversities likecholera, malnutrition, diarrhoea, dysentery, typhoid and intestinal worms is escalating alarminglyin the refugees eventually leading to a huge loss of lives (Bartram and Cairncross 2010). Thisassignment will explore the burden of challenges on the refugee populations, and how three basichuman rights, sanitation, hygiene and clean water are crucial to maintain the basic healthoutcome of any community and avoid the likelihood of the abovementioned disease outbreaks.Complications in crisis situationsA Refugee Crisis refers to a situation caused due to displacement of large number of peoplecomprised of aslylum seekers and refuges. As per the United Nations High Commissioner forRefugees, about 65.6 million people got displaced globally because of the reasons mentioned.
3CONFLICT CRISES AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTHThis crisis can be cause because of Wars or civil unrests, Human rights violations (for exampledue to corruption in Uganda, Somalia, Nigeria), Environmental Conditions (for example inBolivia or Tanzania), Economic Hardships (in third world countries). These displaced people,end up migrating to the nearest countries where they can seek asylum or refuge, and therebycausing an enormous influx of people. The temporary refugee camps set up to accommodatethese individuals, are generally aimed to give the basic human necessities during their shortduration of stay. Ideally, these settlements are supposed to have provisions for housing andsanitation, food rations, provide means of an income and security for the refugees or asylumseekers, apart from ensuring democracy and justice and well being of these people. However, astudy of several refugee camps shows that such parameters are not consistently maintained, andan overcrowding of the camps often resulted in deprivation of such facilities to the refugees. For an example, The Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan houses more than 83,000 people in simple,temporary tents, which provide very little or almost no protection against sub zero temperaturesor now or flooding (King and Smith, 2015). Similarly, the Congolese refugees in the Nyarugusucamp in Tanzania have built their own settlements using unbaked bricks, so that they can berazed at a moment’s notice (Thomson, 2014). This temporary nature of the refugee campsmakes them especially vulnerable to collapse on the long run, or when running at or abovecapacity. Because of this, there is an eventual breakdown of the available facilities likesanitation, water and food supply, and thereby neglecting the basic human necessities. A lack orshortage of funding to the host countries, political corruption, diplomacy and red-tapism, rebel orterrorist groups and fragmentation further complicates the situation, preventing the improvementof the situations seen in the camps. The risk of conflicts becomes even higher when the refugees
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