We are pleased to announce the release of Armed non-State actors and displacement in armed conflict. This study, commissioned by Geneva Call with support from the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, was authored by Héloïse Ruaudel. It builds on an international conference co-organized by Geneva Call and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) in … Seguir leyendo Armed non-State actors and displacement
Loren B. Landau and Darshan Vigneswaran raise three fundamental critiques about how contemporary migration and development debates are likely to affect sub-Saharan Africa. They suggest that the focus should shift from movements out of Africa to migration, displacement and urbanization within the continent in order to take into account the negative effects of migration on … Seguir leyendo Shifting the focus of migration back home: Perspectives from Southern Africa.
School of Law and Social Sciences, University of East London, is offering a new MA in CONFLICT, DISPLACEMENT AND HUMAN SECURITY Programme content The proposed programme offers an advanced and comprehensive understanding of the relationship between conflict, displacement and human insecurity. Distinctive features of the programme are its focus on conflict and displacement, its people-centred … Seguir leyendo M.A. in Conflict, Displacement and Human Security
This policy briefing explores the links between reconciliation, forced migration and transitional justice, bringing into focus the ways in which displaced persons figure in transitional justice processes, and the potential implications of this involvement for reconciliation. The briefing addresses the interlinked conceptual and practical challenges associated with trying to advance reconciliation in post-conflict societies affected … Seguir leyendo Displacement, transitional justice and reconciliation: Assumptions, challenges and lessons
Drawing on recent research in the Horn of Africa, emerging patterns of managing forced migration in the post-Cold War landscape are identified and analyzed. While camps continue to house refugees, tbe meaning and value of ‘refugee’ have changed dramatically since the Cold War. Efforts to prevent people from crossing political borders to seek safety are … Seguir leyendo “A Post-Cold War Geography of Forced Migration in Kenya and Somalia”
In Canada, the phenomenon of urban refugees is largely an expression of state-managed practices, not spontaneous migration and settlement. This study focuses on the distinctly North American, and specifically Canadian, experiences of pre-meditated, state-planned, government-managed migration and settlement for urban refugees from the Aceh region of Indonesia to Vancouver, British Columbia in 2004. It explores … Seguir leyendo “Settling Like a State: Acehnese Refugees in Vancouver”
Climate change will have a progressively increasing impact on environmental degradation and environmentally dependent socio-economic systems with potential to cause substantial population displacement. The key concerns in Less Developed Countries (LDCs) will include serious threats to food security and health, considerable economic decline, inundation of coastal areas, and degradation of land and fresh water resources … Seguir leyendo Climate change, environmental degradation and migration
This paper critically examines the perceived threat of climate refugees and climate conflict. It locates the ideological roots of these concepts in development theories and policy narratives about demographically induced migration, environmental refugees and environmental security. While alarmist rhetoric around climate refugees and conflict has been deployed by a variety of actors, including U.N. agencies, … Seguir leyendo Rethinking climate refugees and climate conflict: Rhetoric, reality and the politics of policy discourse
The RSC has published five new resources on displacement: «The struggle for belonging: Forming and reforming identities among 1.5-generation asylum seekers and refugees,» by Sewite Solomon Kebede, explores the identities of the generation of Ethiopian refugees based in Europe and America who have lived part of their early lives and adolescence in Ethiopia. «Tony Blairs … Seguir leyendo RSC Working Papers
You can download a copy from: http://www.iomiraq.net/iomdmyear.html Majority of Displaced and Returnee Families in Iraq Struggle to Rebuild Lives According to IOM Bi-Annual Report – Food and access to work remain the most pressing needs of families that were forced to flee their homes during the sectarian violence that followed the 2006 Samarra mosque bombing … Seguir leyendo New report: Review of Displacement and Return in Iraq – IOM Iraq