This book poses reconstruction as an essential stage of recovery in countries that have undergone violent conflict and severe natural disaster, focusing on housing in particular. A necessity to ensure decent human life, it is positioned as critical need as opposed to deferred luxury.

This book is an important attempt to address a gap in this field through its use of clear academic and scientific foundations, providing theoretical concept frameworks to study housing reconstruction within the context of crisis recovery. It also discusses strategic policy as an additional means to recover using a tripartite approach: humanity, development, and peace.

This book represents a valuable scientific contribution to Arabic literature, enriching researching in the field of post-crisis and post-disaster reconstruction. It contributed to the formation of a broad knowledge based fueled by realistic models to understand the relevant options, lessons and challenges.