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Thursday, January 23, 2020
By Yasmeen Shahzadeh and Dr. Oroub El-Abed January 24th is the International Day of Education. The significance of this day is monumental: it is a celebration of the power of education to bring peace, to encourage sustainable development, to create opportunities, and to empower generations. For many around the world, access to education continues... More
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Date: Thursday, 30 January 2020 Time: 3:00 p.m – 4:30 p.m. Location: A 631 LOEB building Carleton University History was made by Canada at the UN’s Global Refugee Forum in Geneva in December 2019 when it included a refugee advisor, Mustafa Alio, as a formal member of the Canadian delegation. This event will share... More
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Read this article from the Toronto Star about how LERRN partner Mustafa Alio made history as a delegate to the Global Refugee Forum in December 2019: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/01/12/canadian-refugee-makes-history-as-state-delegate-at-unhcr-forum.html This is an exciting step forward in the long journey towards greater refugee... More
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
WHEN: January 23, 2020 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM WHERE: 626 Kaneff Tower - 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 CONTACT: Michele Millard - Email Guest Speaker: James Milner, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University While there is a rich literature on the politics of the global refugee regime and the politics... More
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
On the eve of the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, LERRN partnered with the IDRC and Asylum Access to host a roundtable on “localization” and the importance of local actors in guiding refugee responses. The event brought together eight dynamic partners for a discussion at the Geneva Press Club on 16 December 2019. The... More
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Working Paper 3 Dina Taha, PhD Candidate, York University Executive Summary This literature review highlights migration and refugee research engaged with intersectionality as a critical framework that challenges homogenizing experiences and categories in the global refugee context. Intersectionality seeks to enable the analysis of multiple... More
Working Paper 1 Midori Kaga, PhD Candidate, School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa Delphine Nakache, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa Executive Summary Attempts to bridge the Humanitarian-Development (HD) nexus are not new, but in recent years this idea has received renewed interest in... More
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
The Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) is pleased to announce full details of the 10th International Refugee Law Seminar Series, held jointly with UNHCR. The full series schedule is available at https://rli.sas.ac.uk/10th-international-refugee-law-seminar-series, and additional information about the next event in the series is below. This series will... More
Thursday, October 24, 2019
...otential to archive some of Al-Jana’s work. Facilitators: Chris Trainor (Archives and Special Collections), Dr. Laura Madokoro. Location: Room 583 MacOdrum Library. Dr. Carol Payne (Art History) and Beth Greenhorn (Library and Archives Canada) of Project Naming will be part of the conversation.... More
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
By Rachel McNally, Carleton University On 3 October 2019, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) organized a panel discussion with partners from research, policy and practice to discuss how partnered research could engage with Canada’s role in the global refugee regime. The panel was part of the two-day conference... More
Sunday, October 6, 2019
The book launch of Refugees’ Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace was a huge success! The resolution of displacement and the conflicts that force refugees from their homes is often explained as a top-down process led and controlled by governments and international organizations. This book takes a different approach. Through... More
Friday, October 4, 2019
On 2 October 2019, Khoti Kamanga, co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Forced Migration at the University of Dar es Salaam, and Co-Applicant for LERRN, published an op-ed in The Citizen, one of Tanzania’s leading English-language newspapers, reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the 1969 OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of... More
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