Management of Waste Derived Due To Conflicts in the Context of Post Conflict Reconstruction

Abstract

Abstract: Increase of man-made conflicts around worldwide has created conflict waste as a major challenge. Improper management of conflict waste creates issues in public health and safety, environment, economic cost on already strained communities and post conflict reconstruction. End of three decade lasted civil war in the country has created significant amount of conflict waste affecting post conflict reconstructions. Hence, this research was mainly focused on identifying the impact of conflict waste on post conflict reconstruction with special emphasize for Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste. Five organizations involved in post conflict reconstruction in conflict areas were selected as the cases and semi structured interviews were conducted to gather data. The collected data was analyzed using content analysis. It was revealed that, lack of capacity to handle an enormous quantity, difficulty in estimating the quantity and composition, identifying dumping sites, coordination among different parties’ involved, financial incapabili ty, and lack of technical peoples as major challenges related with management of conflict C&D waste during post conflict reconstructions.