Archives: Research Chairs

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

IDRC Research Chairs World Refugee Day 2024

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Monday, August 12, 2024

Seminar: Strengthening Knowledge, Evidence Use and Leadership in the Global South on Forced Displacement with a Focus on East Africa

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Friday, June 7, 2024

Nyi Nyi Kyaw: Digital counter-surveillance by refugees from Myanmar in Thailand

Digital counter-surveillance by refugees from Myanmar in Thailand... More

Friday, June 7, 2024

AIT Workshop and Conference Seed Grants 2024

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the successful proposals of the AIT Workshop and Conference Seed Grants 2024, which were selected based on their evaluation across the assigned eligibility criteria as mentioned in the document circulated earlier. The approved AIT-WS&C projects are the following: 1. Professor Paula Banerjee, Centre... More

Friday, June 7, 2024

Conference on Gender Geopolitics and Forced Migration Report

Conference on Gender Geopolitics and Forced Migration... More

Thursday, April 11, 2024

Displacement from Myanmar: How We Got Here and What More Can Be Done

Authors: Nyi Nyi Kyaw and Caitlin McCaffrie Executive Summary Myanmar has long been the primary source of displacement in Southeast Asia, with waves of conflict forcing people of different ages, genders and ethnicities to flee from their homes over decades. Refugees and people seeking asylum from Myanmar live across Southeast and South Asia, often... More

Thursday, April 11, 2024

Cátedra en Migración Internacional Forzada-UdeG – Boletín informativo #3

Los temas más relevantes sobre la movilidad humana ocurridos en el último... More

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Internal Displacement and Solutions Conference

The online "Internal Displacement and Solutions" conference took place from March 14-15, 2024 and marks the culmination of five years of increasing international engagement with the pressing challenge of ‘solutions’ to internal displacement. In 2024, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Solutions to Internal Displacement will wrap... More

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Gender, Geopolitics and Forced Migration conference at AIT, Thailand

The international conference on "Gender, Geopolitics, and Forced Migration" took place on March 4-5, 2024, in Bangkok, Thailand. Aligned with International Women’s Month 2024's theme of "Inspire Inclusion," the conference aimed to advocate for Gender Equality through advocating for a gender-sensitive approach to geopolitics in international... More

Saturday, February 17, 2024

Roundtable Discussion and Workshop: Promotion of Solutions for Displaced People and Migrants

"Towards a Network of Academic Researchers in East, Horn and Great Lakes Region of Africa for the Promotion of Solutions for Displaced People and Migrants" is a roundtable discussion and workshop hosted by Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia from February 15-16,... More

Monday, February 12, 2024

Global South Summit on Climate Displacement: “We Need a Holistic Approach”

IDRC Research Chairs call for an end to the silos that divide climate change policy from displacement solutions. Following their inaugural workshop in Dar es-Salaam in May, five of the IDRC Research Chairs on Forced Displacement (Desiree Del Rosario, Abebaw Minaye, Tiga Alain Ouedraogo, Opportuna Kweka, Amal El Ouassif, and Paula Banerjee)... More

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Revolutionary resistance against full autocratization: Actors and strategies of resistance after the 2021 military coup in Myanmar

Authors: Kristian Stokke, Nyi Nyi Kyaw Abstract Resistance against autocratization is an important contemporary issue that calls for increased scholarly attention. The global wave of autocratization has generated a proliferation of research on the drivers of autocratization, but fewer studies on the possibilities, strategies, spatialities, and... More

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