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Moving with Risk (2019)

Indigenous Women Dancing - Sara Gomez

Moving with Risk focuses on forced displacement: the processes through which people forced from their homes by conflict can commonly become exposed to heightened risk from environmental hazards in the places where they resettle. Effectively, such people exchange one form of catastrophic risk for another, often with little real choice in the process. The collaborative project focuses on Colombia, where five decades of conflict have generated one of the world's largest populations of internally displaced people. Colombia is also one of the countries most prone to natural hazards including landslides, floods, earthquakes and volcanic hazards.

This Animated film shows how the arts became a powerful and engaging way to better understand the experiences of communities who have been displaced by conflict and resettle in areas at risk of disaster in Colombia.