The conference programme is organised through two complementary structures. The guiding questions formulated for Days 1–3 establish the main progression of the conference: from examining what is actually known, through identifying appropriate methods of investigation, to defining practical forms of cooperation and future work. The thematic sessions provide an additional layer of organisation by bringing together presentations concerned with related subjects. These sessions are interconnected rather than isolated, and they should not be understood as separate collections of unrelated questions.
Some presentations may appear in more than one thematic session. This is not a contradiction or duplication, but a reflection of the nature of the problem. War-related environmental and public-health consequences cross disciplinary, geographical, temporal, and institutional boundaries. A single contribution may therefore be relevant to several parts of the shared investigation.
The conference does not assume that all essential questions have already been correctly formulated, nor does it present its participants as experts possessing complete solutions that require only additional funding. Its purpose is to determine what is known, what remains uncertain, how existing knowledge is connected, and what forms of evidence, cooperation, and field investigation are required. The sessions should therefore be read as overlapping perspectives within a common effort to understand and address the environmental and human consequences produced by war.
Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in the Study of War-Related Contamination and Its Long-Term Consequences
● Olson Kenneth Ray. Engineering Transformations of New York Canal System and Long-Term Environmental and Public Health Implications. ABSTRACT● Lois Wright Morton. Beyond Humanitarian Aid: Reclamation and Reconstruction of Contaminated Soil, Degraded Water Resources and Farmer Livelihoods from Wars and Conflicts. ABSTRACT● Laboratory of Military Ecotones. The Paradigm of the Military Ecotone: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations for the Study of War-Related Environmental Pollution● Joireman, Sandra F. People, Paper, and Property: A Comparative Framework for Post-Conflict Territorial Transformation”. ABSTRACT● Nikolaenko, Dmitry. Building Research Infrastructure for Long-Term Studies of War: Project-Based Laboratories for Field Research, Information Systems, and Decision Support. ABSTRACT● + 2-3 reports
Conflicts, Soil, and Freshwater Systems
● Lal Rattan. Soil Health and War. ABSTRACT ● Olson Kenneth Ray. Engineering Transformations of New York Canal System and Long-Term Environmental and Public Health Implications. ABSTRACT● Lois Wright Morton. Beyond Humanitarian Aid: Reclamation and Reconstruction of Contaminated Soil, Degraded Water Resources and Farmer Livelihoods from Wars and Conflicts. ABSTRACT● Nagitta, Shirat. Industrial Runoff, Wetland Degradation, and Public Health Risk in the Lake Victoria Basin: Freshwater Vulnerability in a Conflict-Exposed Great Lakes Region. ABSTRACT● Naggayi, Victorious. Post-Conflict Soil Recovery and Food Security in Northern Uganda: Long-Term Land-Use Consequences of Armed Conflict in the Acholi Sub-Region. ABSTRACT● Tymoshenko, Anna. From Protection to Dependency: Hydrological Lock-In, War, and the North Crimean Canal. Pollution and Diseases, ABSTRACT● Katumba, Ivan. Community Environmental Awareness and Freshwater Protection in Uganda: A Community-Based Perspective from the African Great Lakes Region. ABSTRACT● Nikolaenko, Dmitry. A New Type of War-Related Pollution: Fiber-Optic Drone Tether Debris and War-Derived Polymer Microfibers. ABSTRACT● Mohammed Al-Ebweini, Fadi Abu Shanab. The Impact of the Destruction of Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Due to the Ongoing War on the Gaza Strip Since October 2023 on Drinking Water Pollution,
Dioxin Contamination in Indochina and Its Long-Term Consequences
● Gibbs, Andrew, Nikolaenko, Dmitry. Competing Hypotheses and Scientific Non-Recognition: Investigating the Hector’s and Māui Dolphin Decline in the Context of Wartime Chemical Legacies. ABSTRACT● Vu Thi Phung, Vu Dinh Phong, Nguyen Van Ngoc. Archival Records on the Use of Chemical Agents during the Vietnam War at National Archives Center III: Value and Accessibility ABSTRACT● Nguyen Hieu Trung. Decades After the Conflict: RENEW’s Integrated Model for Post-War Land Release and Community Recovery in Quang Tri, Vietnam. ABSTRACT● Laboratory of Information Systems. From Dioxin Source to Long-Term Biological Consequences: A New Information Framework for Reconstructing Wartime Contamination. ABSTRACT● +3-5 reports
Dioxin Contamination and Its Consequences in Countries That Produced the Chemical
● Olson Kenneth Ray. Engineering Transformations of New York Canal System and Long-Term Environmental and Public Health Implications. ABSTRACT● Gibbs, Andrew. Beyond the TCDD Lens in Paritutu New Plymouth, New Zealand: Invisible Phenoxy-Herbicide Co-Contaminants, Visible Developmental Signals, and Decision-Making under Incomplete Evidence. ABSTRACT● Olson Kenneth Ray. Environmental and Human Health Impacts of Agent Orange Manufacturing on the Tittabawassee, Saginaw, and Kanawha Rivers in Eastern United States. ABSTRACT● Gibbs, Andrew, Nikolaenko, Dmitry. Competing Hypotheses and Scientific Non-Recognition: Investigating the Hector’s and Māui Dolphin Decline in the Context of Wartime Chemical Legacies. ABSTRACT
Human and Societal Legacies of War: Veterans, Families, Communities, Memory, and Contested Heritage
This session examines the long-term human and societal consequences of war, including the effects of war-related contamination on veterans, families, and affected communities, as well as intergenerational trauma, contested burial sites, conflicting memories, and the transformation of monuments and other forms of difficult heritage. Through concrete cases from different countries and historical periods, the session seeks to identify common patterns in the persistence, recognition, and management of war legacies.
● Lois Wright Morton. Beyond Humanitarian Aid: Reclamation and Reconstruction of Contaminated Soil, Degraded Water Resources and Farmer Livelihoods from Wars and Conflicts. ABSTRACT● Tornoe Donna. The Tactical–Commercial Distinction: 2,4,5-T, TCDD, and the Recognition of War-Related Health Harm in the Panama Canal Zone. ABSTRACT● Speidel, David R. Predictive Environmental Health Risk Assessment for Military Operations: Preventing Long-Term Human Health Consequences. ABSTRACT● Tymoshenko, Anna. Long-Term War-Induced Transformations of Settlement and Land-Use Systems: Regimes of Scientific Recognition and Research Patterns. ABSTRACT● Nguyen Hieu Trung. Decades After the Conflict: RENEW’s Integrated Model for Post-War Land Release and Community Recovery in Quang Tri, Vietnam. ABSTRACT● Laboratory of Information Systems. When War Comes Home: A Humanistic Archive for Veterans, Families, and the Long-Term Consequences of War. ABSTRACT● Muriel Bubbio. Beyond Reconstruction: Soft Power, Water and Community Resilience in Post-Conflict Countries● + 3-5 reports
Post-War Kosovo: Land Use, Population Dynamics, and Environmental Change
● Joireman, Sandra F. People, Paper, and Property: A Comparative Framework for Post-Conflict Territorial Transformation. ABSTRACT● Tymoshenko, Anna. Long-Term War-Induced Transformations of Settlement and Land-Use Systems: Regimes of Scientific Recognition and Research Patterns. ABSTRACT● + 3-5 reports
Artificial Intelligence in the Study of War-Related Contamination and Its Long-Term Consequences
● Laboratory of Military Ecotones. The Scientist–AI System: Rethinking Research on War-Related Environmental Contamination. https://doi.org/10.66659/dz0jgs38 ● Laboratory of Information Systems. Who Is the Author and Why Is the Problem Still Unsolved? AI and the Failure of Super-Normal Science. https://doi.org/10.66659/svj1dy10 ● Laboratory of Information Systems. Responsibility to the Problem: An Explicit Standard for the Expert–AI System. https://doi.org/10.66659/gc495972● Laboratory of Military Ecotones. AI-Assisted Hypothesis Generation: From Fragmented Manifestations to the Morphology of War Contamination. https://doi.org/10.66659/bap6zf89 ● Laboratory of Information Systems. Evidence Status and Pathological Uncertainty: A Working Standard for War Contamination Information. https://doi.org/10.66659/z0wwf379● Laboratory of Military Ecotones. Field Verification in the Scientist–AI System: From Pathological Uncertainty to Quality Data. https://doi.org/10.66659/2qwv2037 ● Nikolaenko, Dmitry. The Scientist–AI Research System: An Integrated Working Standard for War-Related Environmental Contamination. https://doi.org/10.66659/1cabcy23
Expert Communities and War: Involvement, Responsibility, and the Failure to Investigate Long-Term Consequences+ 3-5 reports