Archives: Rez Gardi

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

LERRN Congratulates Rez Gardi on Appointment as Special Assistant to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees

LERRN extends its warmest congratulations to Rez Gardi as she begins her new role as Special Assistant to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Rez’s courage, vision, wisdom and expertise will be such a tremendous asset to UNHCR as it works to navigate such a challenging moment in its history. Congratulations, Rez! We’re all cheering... More

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Event Report: Towards a New Response to Forced Migration

On the 12th of September 2025, a panel discussion titled “Towards a New Response to Forced Migration through Local Engagement Refugee Research Network” concluded the three-day LERRN 2.0 launch in Ottawa. The roundtable brought together academia and civil society partners with lived experience of displacement to present to the public the newly... More

Friday, November 28, 2025

LERRN Launches Landmark Partnership to Reimagine Global Responses to Forced Migration

From 11 to 12 September 2025, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) hosted a multi-day event marking the official launch of its new SSHRC Partnership Grant, Reimagining Responses to Forced Migration. The $2.5-million award—supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) alongside matching contributions... More

Monday, April 7, 2025

Webinar Report: High-Level Officials Meeting(HLOM): Lessons Learned from the GRF on Meaningful Refugee Participation

...cos de una participación significativa de los refugiados. Rez Gardi, co-directora gerente de R-SEAT, presentó las principales conclusiones del informe, que evaluaba la calidad de la participación de los refugiados en el GRF de 2023. El informe destacó un aumento... More

Friday, April 4, 2025

Bringing Refugee Issues to the UN in New York

On 1 April, LERRN’s Project Director James Milner, and R-SEAT’s Co-Managing Director Rez Gardi delivered a technical briefing on the global refugee regime at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations in New York. The briefing was developed in collaboration with Leah Zamore from the Zolberg Institute at the New School of... More

Friday, March 10, 2023

Podcast Episode on Refugee Participation by James Milner and Rez Gardi

...s episode of (Un)Filtered hosted by Co-Director of R-SEAT Rez Gardi, LERRN Project Director James Milner talks about his research in the forced migration field throughout his career, the change in global refugee regime since the 90s, and meaningful refugee participation in the international refugee... More

Friday, December 9, 2022

Meaningful Refugee Participation: An Emerging Norm in the Global Refugee Regime

...ect Director, Mustafa Alio, R-SEAT Managing Director, and Rez Gardi, R-SEAT Co-managing Director, have co-authored Meaningful Refugee Participation: An Emerging Norm in the Global Refugee Regime in Refugee Survey Quarterly, the peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal from Oxford University Press. The... More

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