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Towards a New Response to Forced Migration
September 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM
| Location: | Hybrid | Zoom & In-Person |
| Cost: | Free |
| Audience: | Anyone |
Event Description
Global responses to forced migration are at a critical juncture. While displacement is at record-high levels and access to protection and solutions becomes increasingly unreliable, the global system designed to ensure collective action and effective responses is unraveling in light of massive funding cuts and political divisions. In a year when a new UN High Commissioner for Refugees will be selected and ahead of a global meeting to assess progress on current commitments to respond to displacement, how can we overcome the current moment of crisis and imagine a new response to forced migration where all forced migrants have timely and reliable access to protection and a permanent place to live in dignity? In response, this roundtable will discuss the objectives of a new, six-year partnership between displaced-led organizations, researchers, and others. The goal of the partnership is for the knowledge and expertise of those most affected by displacement to more reliably and substantively inform forced migration research and the global refugee regime, leading to more effective, legitimate and accountable research, policy and practice. At the core of our partnership is a shared belief that a deeply inclusive, interdisciplinary, partnered and localised approach to the co-production of knowledge can transform forced migration research and the policy process by amplifying the agency of those most affected by displacement. Join us to discuss how the power of partnership can overcome this moment of crisis and imagine a more reliable and legitimate global response to displacement.
