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Monday, September 14, 2020

Op-Ed: What the Beirut Blast means for Lebanon’s Refugees

Last month’s Beirut Blast impacted thousands of people in the country, particularly Lebanon’s refugee population, who a majority of which are living below the poverty line and experience frequent food insecurity.  Dr. Ola G. El-Taliawi, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Refugee Policy at the Faculty of Public Affairs at Carleton University,... More

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Apply for the Refugee Advisory Network

LERRN is now accepting applications for the Refugee Advisory Network. The deadline for applications is 5pm (Ottawa time) on Friday, 16 October 2020. Successful candidates for the Refugee Advisory Network must be living in Canada at the time of their application. What is the Refugee Advisory Network? Launched on World Refugee Day 2020, the... More

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

LERRN Stands in Solidarity with our Partners in Lebanon

On August 19, the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies hosted a webinar on the causes and impact of the Beirut explosions, which included valuable inputs from Dr. Maha Shuayb, LERRN partner and Director of the Centre for Lebanese Studies, as well as Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish of Bard College.  LERRN stands in solidarity with... More

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Education Under Covid-19 Lockdown: Reflections from Teachers, Students and Parents

Dr. Maha Shuayb and other LERRN partners at the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) issued a timely and important report on the impact of COVID-19 on education, including for refugees, in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine. The report is based on a CLS online survey which collected information from 678 people, the majority being parents... More

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

New Online Migration Teaching Collaboration Between Carleton University and the University of Ottawa

LERRN members are excited to be participating in the Online Migration Teaching Collaboration, an innovative collaboration between Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. With a move to on-line teaching at both universities in the Fall term, this initiative will result in a series of online teaching modules on migration-related topics... More

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Job opportunity: Research Officer

We are now recruiting for the position of Research Officer to support the project Knowledge Ecosystems on forced displacement in the Middle East and East Africa. This is a Grant-funded Term Position, based at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. The Research Officer will provide research and administrative support for a small team that will... More

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

The Impact of Resource Dependence on the Localization of Humanitarian Action: The Case of Kenya

Akalya Atputharajah, PhD Candidate, School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa Javans Wanga, Master of Arts in Forced Migration Student, Moi University, Kenya Executive summary: Localization is not a new agenda, but it re-emerged as a major area of focus for global refugee policy during the World Humanitarian... More

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Dr. Maha Shuayb: How a generation of Syrian children in Lebanon were robbed of their education

Dr. Maha Shuayb, Director of the Centre for Lebanese Studies and Lead Investigator of LERRN’s Lebanon Working Group, has published a very timely article in openDemocracy that raises critical questions relating to refugee education. Refugee education has been a growing global priority in recent years. It was one of the core themes at the... More

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

By refugees, for refugees: refugee leadership during COVID-19, and beyond

We're thrilled that an article co-authored by LERRN refugee leaders Mustafa Alio and Pascal Zigashane, along with LERRN Project Director James Milner and leaders from the Global Refugee-led Network Shaza Alrihawi, Anila Noor and Najeeba Wazefadost, has been featured in the latest issue of the Forced Migration Review. The piece discusses the... More

Saturday, June 20, 2020

LERRN Announces Plans for Refugee Advisory Network

June 20, 2020—Ottawa – On World Refugee Day 2020, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) is excited to announce plans to launch a Refugee Advisory Network to enhance the role of civil society—and refugees themselves—in the global refugee system. This initiative is a result of sustained collaboration between LERRN, refugee... More

Saturday, June 13, 2020

Dr. Nimo Bokore Receives Funding for Innovative Project on Cultural-Based and Trauma-Informed Intervention

We want to celebrate Dr. Nimo Bokore, LERRN Co-Investigator and Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton University, who recently received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for an innovative and timely project called “Rethinking Resettlement And Integration: Creating Cultural-Based... More

Monday, June 1, 2020

Is the Humanitarian-Development Nexus Leading to Solutions for Refugees?

By Angel Abbaticchio Though the global refugee regime was developed more than 70 years ago to find solutions for refugees, progress on truly sustainable solutions remains scarce. The international community recognizes the need to strengthen the humanitarian-development (HD) nexus or, in other words, to promote closer collaboration between... More

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