Applying the Disaster Risk Management Cycle to the Syrian humanitarian crisis
Chris Piper · 18 October 2013
Archive note, written 13 October 2026. The original page is not preserved on this site.
Chris Piper wrote this article for PHAP. PHAP published it on 18 October 2013. The full article survives as the original PDF (7 pages), which is available at its original address on this site; the link is below.
The article opens: “The current humanitarian situation engulfing Syria and surrounding countries is an incredibly complex situation and, in evaluating it, localized information and understanding is central. However, in understanding such significant emergencies, there is also a role for generalizable frameworks. In this article, I argue that the humanitarian response in and around Syria, both now and in the coming years, can be usefully analysed using a diagrammatic framework developed in my work on Disaster Risk Management. In particular, I will be focusing on how the concepts used for the Disaster Risk Management Cycle (DRMC) are potentially useful for understanding current and future challenges in Syria.”
ALNAP's Humanitarian Evidence library also lists the article and holds a copy of the same PDF.