| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - One good reason to speak of ‘climate refugees’ |
The concept of ‘environmental refugees’, or ‘climate refugees’, has been progressively abandoned, as having no legal basis. I want to argue that there are good reasons to use the term. |
Francois Gemenne |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Not drowning but fighting: Pacific Islands activists |
Focusing on climate-induced migration, rather than mitigation, can be at odds with grassroots demands and can make the future uninhabitability of some Pacific Islands appear as a foregone conclusion. |
Hannah Fair |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Statelessness and environmental displacement |
Stateless people and migrants are at greater risk of displacement and are less likely to receive assistance; in turn, environmental displacement (especially multiple migrations) heightens the risk of becoming stateless. |
Jessie Connell |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Post-disaster resettlement in urban Bolivia |
Post-disaster resettlement programmes can be unsuitable and ineffective, often exacerbating the vulnerability of people to the effects of climate change. |
Gemma Sou |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 General - Trafficking for human organs |
Trafficking of people for their organs is an emerging transnational crime that has failed to receive sufficient international attention. |
Vladimir Makei |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - “Everyone likes it here” |
Sea-level rise threatens communities of the Lakshadweep islands. But what happens when belongingness, religious beliefs and the identity of being an islander make them stay? |
Himani Upadhyay, Ilan Kelman, Divya Mohan |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Post-disaster resettlement in the Philippines: a risky strategy |
Experience in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan suggests that resettlement as a strategy for mitigating disaster-induced displacement can create significant protection risks. |
Alice R Thomas |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Temporary protection arrangements to fill a gap in the protection regime |
Predictable measures are needed to provide protection for people displaced across borders by disasters, where there is currently a gap. |
Volker Türk |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Governance questions for the international community |
The Nansen Initiative has highlighted significant questions about how the international community should collectively think about displacement and mobility issues relating to natural disasters and climate change, and how to improve the governance thereof. |
Alexander Betts |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Samoa: local knowledge, climate change and population movements |
The voices of scientists, academics, politicians and development practitioners dominate the climate change debate, yet local knowledge, values and beliefs are essential elements of navigating the way forward for affected communities. |
Ximena Flores-Palacios |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - A role for strategic litigation |
Strategic litigation to protect individuals at risk can usefully support higher-level protection initiatives. |
Matthew Scott |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Focusing on climate-related internal displacement |
Global attention should place a primary focus on the application of best practice and the development of innovative initiatives to solve climate-related internal displacement, rather than on grappling with the far rarer movements of people across borders. |
Scott Leckie, Ezekiel Simperingham |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 General - Sweet tea and cigarettes: a taste of refugee life in Jordan |
Among refugees in Jordan, utter boredom – the result of restrictions on mobility, prohibitions on employment, and feelings of marginalisation – is an unmistakable source of anguish. |
Rana B Khoury |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Building adaptive capacity in Assam |
A starting point for adapting to longer-term climate change could be adaptation to short-term climate variability and extreme events. Making more informed choices about the use of remittances can enhance the adaptive capacity of receiving households. |
Soumyadeep Banerjee, Suman Bisht, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Cross-border migration with dignity in Kiribati |
The ‘migration with dignity’ policy is part of Kiribati’s long-term nation-wide relocation strategy. |
Karen E McNamara |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Refugees, climate change and international law |
How can the category of ‘climate refugee’ be considered within international law in the 21st century? |
María José Fernández |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Building respectful solutions |
Tribes in coastal Alaska and Louisiana in the United States are among the communities at immediate risk of displacement due to climate change impacts. |
Colleen Swan, Chief Albert P Naquin, Stanley Tom |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Facilitating voluntary adaptive migration in the Pacific |
Voluntary adaptive migration across int'l borders will be a critical component of an overall adaptation strategy for at-risk individuals and households in the Pacific in order to increase their resilience to natural hazards and prevent future displicement |
Bruce Burson, Richard Bedford |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Floods and migration in the Czech Republic |
Residents’ strategies are generally aimed at either protection from or adaptation to flooding. Large-scale migration from the floodplains of rivers has not been seriously considered, even in high-risk zones. |
Robert Stojanov, Ilan Kelman, Barbora Duží |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Brazil’s draft law for environmental migrants |
Brazil is developing a long-term solution for filling a legislative gap affecting environmental migrants. |
Isabela Piacentini de Andrade |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 General - Refugee-state distrust on the Thai-Burma border |
Distrust between refugees and their state of origin must be given due consideration in institutional approaches to repatriation of refugees, on the Thai-Burma border and in other refugee contexts worldwide. |
Karen Hargrave |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Mixed motivations and complex causality in the Mekong |
Many climate change-affected communities have already been using migration as a means to adapt to and withstand the challenges to their livelihoods and security. Strengthening of existing protections for all migrants is clearly advantageous. |
Jessica Marsh |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Land, disasters and mobility in the South Pacific |
The adaptive characteristics of customary land systems deserve greater recognition in disaster or climate change policy frameworks. |
Daniel Fitzpatrick |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Displacement as a consequence of climate change mitigation policies |
Climate change mitigation policies and ‘green solutions’, such as biofuels, are also creating displacement. |
Sara Vigil |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 General - The Cartagena process: 30 years of innovation and solidarity |
The 30th anniversary of the 1984 Cartagena Declaration offers the opportunity to consider the achievements of the Cartagena process and the specific characteristics that make it so remarkable. |
Carlos Maldonado Castillo |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Integrating resilience in South Asia |
Communities can strengthen their resilience by integrating disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and poverty reduction measures. |
Mi Zhou, Dorien Braam |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - 'One Safe Future’ in the Philippines |
The Philippine government’s ‘One Safe Future’ programme relocated disaster-affected poor families in areas where structures enabling opportunities are lacking. |
Lloyd Ranque, Melissa Quetulio-Navarra |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Disasters, displacement and a new framework in the Americas |
There is a startling range of positive examples of national law, policy and practice all across the Americas that states have used to respond to the migratory consequences of disasters. |
David James Cantor |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 General - Animals and forced migration |
Harm to animals resulting from forced migration of people is intricately interwoven with and contingent upon the simultaneous suffering of humans. |
Piers Beirne, Caitlin Kelty-Huber |
18 June, 2015 |
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| Transport Studies Unit Podcasts |
Delivering Low Carbon Transport across the UK's Devolved Administrations part one |
Jack Snape, Committee on Climate Change gives a talk for the Transport Studies Unit Hilary Term Seminar Series. |
Jack Snape |
17 June, 2015 |
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| Transport Studies Unit Podcasts |
Politics of Roadspace part one |
Justin Spinney, University of Cardiff gives a talk for the Transport Studies Unit Hilary Term Seminar Series. |
Justin Spinney |
17 June, 2015 |
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| Transport Studies Unit Podcasts |
EU's Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans: Whose Politics? Part Two |
Anne Shaw, Birmingham City Council, gives a talk for the Transport Studies Unit Hilary Term Seminar Series. |
Anne Shaw |
17 June, 2015 |
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| Transport Studies Unit Podcasts |
Politics of Infrastructure: Spineless Development? part two |
Tim Schwanen, Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford gives a talk for the Transport Studies Unit Hilary Term Seminar Series. |
Tim Schwanen |
17 June, 2015 |
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| Transport Studies Unit Podcasts |
EU's Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans: Whose Politics? Part One |
Mark Major, The Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport, European Commission, gives a talk for the Transport Studies Unit Hilary Term Seminar Series |
Mark Major |
17 June, 2015 |
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| Transport Studies Unit Podcasts |
Delivering Low Carbon Transport across the UK's Devolved Administrations part two |
Stuart Hay, Vice Chair of Transform Scotland and Scottish Director of Living Streets gives a talk for the Transport Studies Unit Hilary Term Seminar Series. |
Stuart Hay |
17 June, 2015 |
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| Building Peace 2010 to 2019 |
OxPeace 2015: Key concerns in peace and security: building more peaceful and inclusive societies |
Sunil Suri gives a talk for Session C of the 2015 OxPeace conference; Peace and the proposed UN Sustainable Development Goals. |
Sunil Suri |
16 June, 2015 |
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| Building Peace 2010 to 2019 |
OxPeace 2015: Themes in the relationship between development and peace |
Jonathan Granoff gives a talk for Session C of the 2015 OxPeace conference; Peace and the proposed UN Sustainable Development Goals. |
Jonathan Granoff |
16 June, 2015 |
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| Building Peace 2010 to 2019 |
Oxpeace 2015: ISIL and Islamic responses to extremism |
Imam Monwar Hussain give a talk for Session B of the 2015 OxPeace conference; Religion in peace and conflict: extreme war-making, didcated peacebuilding. |
Monawar Hussain |
16 June, 2015 |
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| Building Peace 2010 to 2019 |
OxPeace 2015: Closing Remarks |
Dr Liz Carmichael closes the 2015 OxPeace Conference. |
Liz Carmichael |
16 June, 2015 |
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| Building Peace 2010 to 2019 |
Oxpeace 2015: 'A Force for Peace': The UN Secretary-General and the Cold War, 1946-1953 |
Ellen Jenny Ravndal gives a talk for Session A of the 2015 OxPeace conference; New directions in the study of peacebuilding. |
Ellen Jenny Ravndal |
16 June, 2015 |
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| Building Peace 2010 to 2019 |
OxPeace 2015: UN Protection of Civilians, with special emphasis on South Sudan |
Hilde Johnson gives a talk at OxPeace 2015 Conference, held at St John's College on 10th May 2015. |
Hilde Johnson |
16 June, 2015 |
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| Building Peace 2010 to 2019 |
Oxpeace 2015: Partnering to Make Peace: The Effectiveness of UN-African Joint Mediation Efforts in Civil Wars in Africa |
Allard Duursma gives a talk for Session A of the 2015 OxPeace conference; New directions in the study of peacebuilding. |
Allard Duursma |
16 June, 2015 |
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| Building Peace 2010 to 2019 |
OxPeace 2015: Opening Plenary Peace and the UN at 70 |
Edward Mortimer CMG gives the opening talk for the OxPeace 2015 conference, held at St John's College on 10th May 2015. |
Edward Mortimer |
16 June, 2015 |
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| Building Peace 2010 to 2019 |
Oxpeace 2015: UN Peacebuilding and the pursuit of multi-Ethnicity in Kosovo |
Dana Landau gives a talk for Session A of the 2015 OxPeace conference; New directions in the study of peacebuilding. |
Dana Landau |
16 June, 2015 |
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| Building Peace 2010 to 2019 |
Oxpeace 2015: Of Mandates and Majors: Exploring The United Nations' Role in Disarmament Demobilisation and Reinsertion, the Case of Timor Leste |
Dr Kate Roll gives a talk for Session A of the 2015 OxPeace conference; New directions in the study of peacebuilding. |
Kate Roll |
16 June, 2015 |
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| Building Peace 2010 to 2019 |
OxPeace 2015 Keynote: Peace and the UN at 70 |
Mark Maloch-Brown gives the keynote address at the 2015 OxPeace conference. |
Mark Maloch-Brown |
16 June, 2015 |
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| Building Peace 2010 to 2019 |
Oxpeace 2015 Introduction |
Dr Liz Carmichael opens the 2015 OxPeace Conference, held in St John's College on 10th May 2015. |
Liz Carmichael |
16 June, 2015 |
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| Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism |
Cross-border journalism – a new method of collaborative reporting |
A Reuters podcast given by Brigitte Alfter, journalist, lecturer and author of handbook on cross-border journalism. |
Brigette Alfter |
12 June, 2015 |
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| Chemistry for the Future: Clean Energy |
Nanoparticle Catalysis: Size Matters |
Hanif Mahadi, Researcher in Edman Tsang’s group, explains how nanoparticle catalysts help us use fossil fuels more efficiently and develop cleaner alternative sources of energy. |
Hanif Mahadi |
10 June, 2015 |
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| Chemistry for the Future: Clean Energy |
Using Catalysts to Make Exhaust Fumes Greener |
How can we reduce the pollution from car exhausts? |
Elizabeth Raine |
10 June, 2015 |
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| Chemistry for the Future: Clean Energy |
Unlocking the Power of Hydrogen |
Kylie Vincent and Philip Ash discuss how bacteria harness the energy stored within hydrogen molecules, and how this could help build a more sustainable energy future. |
Kylie Vincent, Philip Ash |
10 June, 2015 |
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| Chemistry for the Future: Clean Energy |
The Energy Challenge: Research at Oxford |
Providing secure, affordable and sustainable forms of energy is one of our biggest challenges this century. Hear how the cutting-edge fundamental research we undertake addresses real world problems and helps us to move towards a more sustainable future. |
Phil Grunewald |
10 June, 2015 |
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| Chemistry for the Future: Clean Energy |
Chemistry is Central to our Energy Future |
Phil Grunewald, Deputy Director of Energy Research at the University of Oxford, explains how chemistry helps to solve global energy challenges. |
Phil Grunewald |
10 June, 2015 |
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| Department of Education Public Seminars |
Questioning the UK government’s vision of higher education and social mobility |
A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Dr Susan James Relly, Assistant Director of SKOPE. |
Susan James Relly |
9 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49, FGM - The medicalisation of female genital mutilation |
The ‘medicalisation’ of female genital mutilation should be denounced on two counts.Firstly, it is usually anatomically more damaging and, secondly, it goes against the ethical basis of the medical profession. |
Pierre Foldes, Frédérique Martz |
4 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49, FGM - Editors’ Introduction |
An introductory note from the Editors of a special mini-feature on 'FGM and Asylum in Europe' in FMR 49. |
Marion Couldrey, Maurice Herson |
4 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49, FGM - The Istanbul Convention: new treaty, new tool |
The new Istanbul Convention provides a powerful tool for more effectively guaranteeing the protection of asylum seekers at risk of gender-based persecution and at risk of FGM in particular. |
Elise Petitpas, Johanna Nelles |
4 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49, FGM - Female genital mutilation: a case for asylum in Europe |
With some 71% of female EU asylum applicants from FGM-practising countries estimated to be survivors of this harmful traditional practice, it is time to accept that this subject demands greater scrutiny and a more dedicated response. |
Fadela Novak-Irons |
4 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49, FGM - FGM: challenges for asylum applicants and officials |
Asylum authorities in the European Union need to establish better procedures to help address the specific vulnerabilities and protection needs of women and girls who have undergone or are at risk of female genital mutilation. |
Christine Flamand |
4 June, 2015 |
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| Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49, FGM - Changing attitudes in Finland towards FGM |
Former refugee women are now working as professional educators among immigrant and refugee communities in Finland to tackle ignorance of the impact and extent of female genital mutilation/cutting. |
Saido Mohamed, Solomie Teshome |
4 June, 2015 |
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| Faith and displacement (Forced Migration Review 48) |
FMR 48 - The role of religion in the formation of cross-community relationships |
Spiritual life is a priority in many conflict-affected communities. It is rarely prioritised by aid agencies, yet may be central to the formation and maintaining of strong and effective cross-community relationships. |
Sadia Kidwai, Lucy V Moore, Atallah FitzGibbon |
4 June, 2015 |
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| International Migration Institute |
What archaeological data tell us about the movement of populations in the last millenia |
What archaeological data tell us about the movement of populations in the last millenia: presented by Nicolas Zorzin |
Nicolas Zorzin |
4 June, 2015 |
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| Faith and displacement (Forced Migration Review 48) |
FMR 48 - Faith motivation and effectiveness: a Catholic experience |
CAFOD’s ability to partner with other FBOs and communities brings significant advantages for its work with displaced people. However, modern-day humanitarianism does not always sit comfortably alongside some of the practices of the major religions. |
Robert Cruickshank, Cat Cowley |
4 June, 2015 |
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| Faith and displacement (Forced Migration Review 48) |
FMR 48 - Local faith actors and protection in complex and insecure environments |
Faith leaders, faith-based organisations and local faith communities play a major role in the protection of people affected by conflict, disaster and displacement. Humanitarians, however, have only recently begun to fully appreciate their protection work. |
James Thomson |
4 June, 2015 |
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| International Migration Institute |
Trinity seminar series 2015: Remaining 'attached strangers': Encounters, relationships and the future of African migrants in China |
Remaining 'attached strangers': Encounters, relationships and the future of African migrants in China, presented by Linessa Dan Lin |
Linessa Dan Lin |
4 June, 2015 |
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| Faith and displacement (Forced Migration Review 48) |
FMR 48 - From the Editors |
An introductory note on FMR 48, 'Faith and Responses to Displacement', from the Editors. |
Marion Couldrey, Maurice Herson |
4 June, 2015 |
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| Faith and displacement (Forced Migration Review 48) |
FMR 48 - The dignity of the human person |
Catholic Social Teaching’s emphasis on the dignity of the human person is a lens that Catholic institutions use to evaluate how we as a global society enhance or threaten the dignity of the human person, especially the most vulnerable of people. |
Nathalie Lummert |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - The value of accompaniment |
Friendship and compassionate companionship with the most vulnerable provide a powerful type of humanitarian service giving priority to personal accompaniment. |
Joe Hampson, Thomas M Crea, Rocío Calvo, Francisco Álvarez |
4 June, 2015 |
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| Faith and displacement (Forced Migration Review 48) |
FMR 48 - The contribution of FBOs working with the displaced |
Faith-based organisations take from their religious traditions both strong motivations & access to a long history of thinking concerning social and political issues. This can make them ideally placed to fill the gaps in the implementation of human rights |
David Holdcroft |
4 June, 2015 |
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| International Migration Institute |
Applying a gender lens to migration and development: insights from research in Southern Africa |
Applying a gender lens to migration and development: insights from research in Southern Africa: presented by Belinda Dodson |
Belinda Dodson |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Journeys of a secular organisation in south Lebanon |
A secular NGO’s experiences in south Lebanon demonstrate that it is possible for non-faith-based organisations to develop productive relationships with faith-based actors without compromising their secular identities. |
Jason Squire, Kristen Hope |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - How local faith communities can aid asylum seekers |
Local faith communities are able to offer assistance to asylum seekers in ways that faith-based organisations, constrained by eligibility criteria, are not. |
Kelly Barneche, ‘Joe’ |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Faith and the secular: tensions in realising humanitarian principles |
There is good reason to engage faith-based organisations and local faith communities in humanitarian response but doing so raises challenging issues for the interpretation of humanitarian principles in what some see as a post-secular age. |
Alastair Ager |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Religious leaders unite to disarm hearts and minds |
In the Central African Republic, where religion has been used as a tool to divide and manipulate the population, religious leaders have come together to promote tolerance and forgiveness as a basis for rebuilding peaceful cohabitation. |
Monsignor Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Imam Omar Kobine Layama, Pastor Nicolas Guerekoyame Gbangou |
4 June, 2015 |
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| Faith and displacement (Forced Migration Review 48) |
FMR 48 - The clash and clout of faith: refugee aid in Ghana and Kenya |
A case-study from Ghana assesses the importance of a faith-based response to displacement in West Africa, while an example from Kenya highlights problems that can arise in collaborations between secular and faith-based organisations. |
Elizabeth Wirtz, Jonas Ecke |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - A Luxembourg government perspective on faith in partnership |
While flexible in partnering with agencies best placed to assist affected populations, Luxembourg requires its partners to adhere to humanitarian principles. |
Max Lamesch |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Church Asylum |
Church asylum, or sanctuary, is a practice to support, counsel and give shelter to refugees who are threatened with deportation to inhumane living conditions, torture or even death. This practice can be located at the interface of benevolence and politics |
Birgit Neufert |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - The asylum seeker: a faith perspective |
An organisation based on faith will listen and try to understand when unjust laws, traditions, cultures or ideologies cause refugees to flee. |
Flor Maria Rigoni |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - An inter-religious humanitarian response in the Central African Republic |
Inter-religious action has played a key role in ensuring that social cohesion and inter-religious mediation remain on the int'l agenda in relation to response in the Central African Republic, where people’s faith is an integral part of their identity |
Catherine Mahony |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Not in our remit |
When secular organisations are responding to the needs of displaced people, the religious practices and needs of the communities may not be high on the list of things to be thought about. |
Maurice Herson |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Offering sanctuary to failed refugee claimants in Canada |
Despite the anti-refugee sentiment demonstrated by Canada’s recent legislative changes and the government’s hardening attitude towards those in sanctuary, the spirit of resistance and community engagement is alive and well in Canada. |
Kristin Marshall |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Christian civil disobedience and indefinite, mandatory immigration detention in Australia |
A new movement of Christian activists in Australia is using radical direct action to challenge their country’s policy of mandatory detention of asylum seeker children. |
Marcus Campbell |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Respecting faiths, avoiding harm: psychosocial assistance in Jordan and the United States |
Both faith-based and secular organisations need to recognise the ways in which religion can provide healing and support but can also cause harm for refugees and asylum seekers. |
Maryam Zoma |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Faith, relief and development: the UMCOR-Muslim Aid model seven years on |
Seven years ago, a strategic partnership between the United Methodist Committee on Relief and Muslim Aid in Sri Lanka was formalised into a worldwide partnership agreement. Why did the partnership not achieve its goals? |
Amjad Saleem, Guy Hovey |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Interfaith humanitarian cooperation: a Lutheran perspective |
The Lutheran World Federation’s experience is that closer cooperation between faith-based organisations of different faiths is both possible and beneficial. |
Elizabeth Gano |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Guided by humanitarian principles |
Caritas Luxembourg’s work with refugees, IDPs and migrants in Colombia, Lebanon and Luxembourg offers some examples of the ways in which a faith-based organisation may be advantaged or disadvantaged by its faith basis. |
Andreas Vogt, Sophie Colsell |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Religious space, humanitarian space |
he Protestant church in Morocco is struggling with tensions as it navigates between being a church organisation and being – in its work with refugees and migrants – something more like a non-governmental organisation. |
May Ngo |
4 June, 2015 |
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| Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism |
How to make serious magazine journalism pay |
Bronwen Maddox (editor, Prospect magazine) delivers a talk for the Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series. |
Bronwen Maddox |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Reflections from the field |
Working with religious leaders is an essential element of serving local communities, as is an understanding of the religious life of local communities and how belief influences their decision making. |
Simon Russell |
4 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Principles and proselytising: good practice in Ethiopia |
Faith-based organisations need to ensure that in providing essential humanitarian assistance they do not exploit the vulnerability of people by proselytising, whether overtly or covertly. |
Zenebe Desta |
3 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Faith-based humanitarianism in northern Myanmar |
The response of faith-based organisations to displacement in northern Myanmar has been remarkable but sustaining an open and collaborative relationship with the international community remains an ongoing challenge. |
Edward Benson, Carine Jaquet |
3 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Jewish roots of humanitarian assistance |
The act of assistance is an act of respect for the humanity of others and is not the preserve of any one faith. |
Ricardo Augman, Enrique Burbinski |
3 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - The costs of giving and receiving: dilemmas in Bangkok |
Local faith-based organisations play a central role in meeting the basic needs of the increasing urban refugee population in Bangkok. This raises challenges for all involved. |
Sabine Larribeau, Sharonne Broadhead |
3 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Faith and the politics of resettlement |
For some asylum seekers in Turkey, conversion may be an opportunistic strategy to improve resettlement prospects. |
Shoshana Fine |
3 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48: ‘Welcoming the stranger’ and UNHCR’s cooperation with faith-based organisations |
Since its creation in 1950, UNHCR has engaged with faith-based organisations, faith communities and faith leaders in carrying out its work. Recently, UNHCR has been more actively exploring the role of faith in humanitarian responses. |
José Riera, Marie-Claude Poirier |
3 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - From violence to more violence in Central America |
Many Central American migrants flee their home country as a result of violence and threats from the criminal gangs. A large number of them also encounter the same type of violence that they are fleeing when on the migratory routes through Mexico. |
Israel Medina |
3 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - An ecumenical organisation for asylum seekers in Switzerland |
An ecumenical organisation provides socio-pastoral assistance for asylum seekers while they go through the first crucial steps of the asylum proceedings. |
Susy Mugnes, Felicina Proserpio, Luisa Deponti |
3 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Reflections from the encampment decision in the High Court of Kenya |
Civil society groups are embracing a recent victory in the High Court of Kenya as a reminder of the important role that strategic litigation can play in the enforcement and promotion of refugee rights. |
Anna Wirth |
3 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - What’s faith got to do with it? |
Use of the faith-based label demands greater clarification lest it lose coherence and result in adverse policy implications, excluding religiously motivated actors from providing much-needed assistance to displaced communities, particularly inside Syria. |
Tahir Zaman |
3 June, 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Work and refugee integration in Sweden |
One of the main challenges facing refugees trying to integrate in their host country is finding a suitable job. Sweden recognises this issue and is investing in making inclusion in the labour market the driver of refugee integration. |
Miguel Peromingo |
3 June, 2015 |
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