by the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters

Professor Adenrele Awotona, director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at UMass Boston’s McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, delivered the plenary speech at the late February Construction Forum held in Erbil, the capital city of Iraqi-Kurdistan. The Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Ministry of Construction and Housing in partnership with Salahaddin University-Erbil (SU-E) invited Awotona to help explore how innovative construction technologies could be used to expedite the development of the Kurdistan region.

His speech, “Rebuilding Sinjar As If People Mattered,” examined post-war reconstruction in Kurdistan in the wake of the massive destruction of towns and cities by the Islamic State, especially Sinjar, the home of the Yazidis, which the Iraqi parliament unanimously declared a ruined city in April last year.

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