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Panel Discussion: People Forced to Flee
March 20, 2024 at 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
| Location: | Carleton University, Room 100, St. Patrick's Building |
| Cost: | Free |
This event is supported by LERRN: The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network and the Migration and Diaspora Studies program at Carleton University.
Panel Discussion with Ninette Kelly and Dr. James Milner
People Forced to Flee draws on the lessons of history to probe how we can improve responses to forced displacement.
Tracing the roots of asylum from early history to contemporary times, the book shows how the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees turned the centuries-old ideals of safety and solutions for refugees into global practice. It highlights the major achievements in protecting people forced to flee since then, while exploring serious setbacks along the way.
People Forced to Flee also examines how increased development investments in education, health and economic inclusion are helping to improve socio-economic opportunities both for forcibly displaced people and their hosts. Alongside this are greater investments in data, evidence and analysis pointing to what works best. And it discusses the wide array of financing mechanisms that can support sustainable responses.
In a panel discussion with Dr. James Milner and Ninette Kelley, the two will discuss the growing challenges and changing causes of global displacement, new responses to ending displacement, the important role of universities and meaningful refugee participation in advancing solutions and responses.
UNHCR-Carleton Panel Talk (March 2024)
Panelists:
Ninette Kelley’s career has focused on improving responses to forced displacement. She served over 19 years with UNHCR including as UNHCR Director, New York (2015-2019) and UNHCR Representative, Lebanon (2010-2015). Her last assignment was the writing of People Forced to Flee: History, Change, and Challenge, (2022). Kelley also served eight years on the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB). She is the author of The Making of the Mosaic: The History of Canadian Immigration Policy, with Michael Trebilcock (2010) and Reshaping the Mosaic: Contemporary Canadian Immigration Policy with Michael Trebilcock and Jeffery G. Reitz (publication forthcoming). She has also published in the areas of human rights law, citizenship, refugee protection, gender related persecution and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. She is a lawyer by training.
James Milner is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University and Program Director of Migration and Diaspora Studies (MDS) program. James is also Project Director of LERRN: The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network, a 7-year, SSHRC-funded partnership between researchers and civil society actors primarily in Canada, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon and Tanzania. He is also the Co-Chair of the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN). James has been a researcher, practitioner and policy advisor on issues relating to the global refugee regime, global refugee policy and the politics of asylum in the global South. In recent years, he has undertaken field research in Burundi, Guinea, Kenya, India, Tanzania and Thailand, and has presented research findings to stakeholders in New York, Geneva, London, Ottawa, Bangkok, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and elsewhere. He has worked as a Consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in India, Cameroon, Guinea and its Geneva Headquarters. He is author of Refugees, the State and the Politics of Asylum in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), co-author (with Alexander Betts and Gil Loescher) of UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection (Routledge, 2012), and co-editor of Refugees’ Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace: Beyond Beneficiaries(Georgetown University Press, 2019) and Protracted Refugee Situations: Political, Human Rights and Security Implications (UN University Press, 2008).