Wars in cities and cities at war: humanitarian aid in the face of armed conflict, 2013

01/11/2013

The current conflict in Syria has entered its third year and a number of Syrian cities have been and are still active battlefields. This situation reminds us that cities are places of political and economic power, and that they therefore easily become targets of strategic issues for the conquest of power. While wars in cities generally result from political crises, military operations in cities leave these urban contexts and their peripheries in terrible states, creating de facto urban and humanitarian crisis situations. The images of Homs, Aleppo or Damascus [...]