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However, conflicts around politics were quickly replaced by conflictsabout local issues including aid and intra-GAM conflicts (Figure 4).Figure 4: Number of conflicts per month in Aceh (WB-DSF, 2007b, p. 1).Aid became the most important source of conflict for the period August2005 to February 2006. After this aid -related conflicts dropped to lessthan half the total number of conflicts, but still remained significant(Figure 5).Figure 5: Aid as an important source of conflict (WB-DSF, 2007c, p. 5).Harris (Harris, 2006,15) argues that the post-tsunami aid effort in SriLanka was one of the negative factors driving conflict there: “the postdisastercongestion of humanitarian space in tsunami-affected Sri Lanka has contributedto the erosion of local emergency capacities , has altered the trajectories of localrelationships and diminished community level prospects for peace”.4.2.2 Risks from natural hazardsThe second Tsunami Recovery Impact Assessment and MonitoringSystem (TRIAMS) workshop noted that there is “… an important windowof opportunity during the recovery phase following a major disaster to introduce strategies,policies and practices that will help to reduce the risk of a future hazard havinga similar impact ” (UNDP et al., 2007, p. 66).37