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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
MIDORI KAGA PhD Candidate, School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa DELPHINE NAKACHE Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa Read here: LERRN Working Paper No. 1 - Protection Executive summary: Attempts to bridge the Humanitarian-Development (HD) nexus are not new, but in recent years this idea... 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
Historians Dr. Laura Madokoro and Dr. Dominique Marshall are welcoming Lebanese filmmaker and oral historian Hicham Kayed to Ottawa during October 26-30. Hicham Kayed’s visit is part of the actives of the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network, a research project led by Dr. James Milner (Political Science). LERRN is comprised of... 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
Thursday, September 5, 2019
On Thursday, 5 September 2019, partners from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) held a series of meetings in Ottawa to begin a new initiative to support sustainable research capacity on refugee and forced migration issues in key regions of the global South. Loren Landau,... More
Friday, August 23, 2019
The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) was excited to participate in an innovative training program on forced migration issues. The week-long program opened Monday, 26 August, in Nairobi, Kenya. Organized by the Peace Institute at Moi University, under the seasoned leadership of the Institute’s Director, Dulo Nyaoro, the Regional... More
Friday, May 24, 2019
Nimo Bokore left Ethiopia in her early 20s during Ethiopia’s Civil War. Before leaving, Nimo worked as a journalist, covering the 1977- 78 Ethiopian-Somali war from the field. Bokore was in prison for seven months before she was released, but that was not the end of the persecution for her. Right after having her... More
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Professor James Milner hosted a seminar on the global refugee regime on Jan. 31 at Carleton University. For full story, click here. See a video of the discussion below.... More
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