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Thursday, January 23, 2020

Lessons from the Dadaab Camps in Building Capacity in Education

 By Mohamed Duale The International Day of Education on January 24th was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly on December 6, 2018 as a day of action to highlight the role of... More

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Refugee Participation: Where next after the GRF?

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... More

Sunday, January 12, 2020

LERRN partner Mustafa Alio featured in Toronto Star

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:... More

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

CRS Seminar: Civil society and the everyday politics of the global refugee regime

WHEN: January 23, 2020 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM WHERE: 626 Kaneff Tower - 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 CONTACT: Michele Millard -... More

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Event report: Localization: What? Why? How?

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... More

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Filmmaker and Activist Hicham Kayed’s Visit to Canada

In October, LERRN had the pleasure of inviting filmmaker and activist Hicham Kayed to Canada to share the work of Al-Jana with a wider audience and explore ways that LERRN could support... More

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Intersectionality and Other Critical Approaches in Refugee Research: An Annotated Bibliography

DINA TAHA PhD Candidate, York University Executive summary: This literature review highlights migration and refugee research engaged with... More

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Durable Solutions and the Humanitarian-Development Nexus: A Literature Review

MERVE ERDILMEN PhD Student, Department of Political Science, McGill University Executive summary: This paper provides a brief review of the literature on the link between... More

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Protection and the Humanitarian-Development Nexus: A Literature Review

MIDORI KAGA PhD Candidate, School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa DELPHINE NAKACHE Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa... More

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

LERRN Student Network

LERRN welcomes students to participate in events and apply for summer research placements. We are working on more opportunities for students to be involved with LERRN. To stay in touch, we invite you to join the LERRN Student Network... More

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Curated Research Needs List

LERRN is in the process of working with our NGO and refugee-led organization partners to identify research questions that they would like to answer and compiling a list of these research needs. Students will be able to select... More

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

LERRN hosts Lebanese filmmaker Hicham Kayed

From October 28th to 30th, LERRN welcomed filmmaker Hicham Kayed to Carleton for three days of workshops and the Canadian premiere of his film “Aisle.” Hicham is a member of LERRN’s Lebanon Working Group and the Deputy... More

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Brainstorming Ways to Support Refugee Participation

In September 2019, LERRN and the Refugee Hub convened researchers, practitioners and policymakers for a Policy Dialogue to explore how Canada can support meaningful refugee participation.... More

Thursday, November 28, 2019

Localization: What? Why? How?

  A roundtable organized by IDRC, Asylum Access and LERRN The Geneva Press Club Monday, 16 December 2019 11h30 to 13h00 Lunch to follow       Purpose On the eve of the Global Refugee Forum (GRF), the purpose of... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

International Refugee Law Seminar Series

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... More

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Migration Student Research Conference

Come hear about the latest student research in migration at Carleton and beyond! The Migration Student Research Conference is hosted by the Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative and the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network... More

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Archive and Display: Five conversations on Lebanese forced migrations

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... More

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Film Screening of “Aisle”

About this Event Join us for a movie night showcasing inspiring and powerful stories! While Palestinian refugees residing in Lebanon are aware of the risks that come with unlawful immigration, 156,000 asylum seekers travelled to... More

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Reflections on Canada and the Global Refugee Regime: Opportunities for Partnered Research

By Rachel McNally, Carleton University   On 3 October 2019, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) organized a panel... More

Sunday, October 6, 2019

Highlights: Book Launch of Refugees’ Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace

The book launch of Refugees’ Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace was a huge success! The resolution of displacement and... More

Friday, October 4, 2019

Reflections on 50 Years of OAU Refugee Pact

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... More

Monday, September 30, 2019

Launch of the McGill Refugee Research Group

LERRN's Solutions Working Group launched the McGill Refugee Research Group in 2019. The MRRG brings together faculty, post-doctoral fellows and graduate students at McGill University working on refugee and forced migration... More

Thursday, September 19, 2019

Reflections from Tanzania on the OAU Convention at 50

On 18 September 2019, Janemary Ruhundwa, Executive Director of Dignity Kwanza and lead of LERRN's Tanzania Working Group, published an op-ed in The Citizen, one of Tanzania's leading... More

Friday, September 13, 2019

Refugee Participation in Kakuma Refugee Camp

By Mohamed Duale, PhD Student, York University This August 2019, I had the opportunity to research refugee participation in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northwest Kenya as part of the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network... More

Thursday, September 5, 2019

IDRC-LERRN initiative to support refugee research

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... More

Friday, August 23, 2019

Launch of Innovative Training on Refugee Issues

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... More

Monday, August 19, 2019

Localized Research: Studying Tanzania’s National Legal Framework

By Stéfanie Morris & Leonard Chimanda In the spirit of collaboration which is so central to LERRN, we’re writing this post together. We do this not only to highlight our... More

Monday, August 12, 2019

Youth in Amman: Transforming Education

Photo: Yasmeen Shahzadeh, 2019   August 12 is International Youth Day: a celebration and recognition of the agency and role youth have in the in the world today, and the opportunities they possess in driving change for the... More

Monday, July 8, 2019

“I’m so happy to be working with this project. It’s just like you’re doing something that is meaningful,” says Zahraa Al-Ahmad, who is heading to Lebanon.

Zahraa Al-Ahmad was born in Syria and moved to Canada when she was eight years old. She tells that she left... More

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

“Having attempts to collaborate on this kind of project will be so eye opening for me,” says Stéfanie Morris, who will be joining the Tanzania group.

Stéfanie Morris was born in a small town in Northern Quebec.  Her mother is French-Canadian and her father... More

Saturday, June 29, 2019

“I think it’s really important for me as a Jordanian living abroad to be serving my community,” says Yasmeen Shahzadeh, who will be working in Jordan through LERRN.

Yasmeen Shahzadeh was born and raised in Jordan. Both maternal grandparents of hers were refugees from... More

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

“They [refugees] know best what is happening with their lives, they know best what the solutions to their problems are,” says Mohamed Duale who will be working with refugees in Kenya.

Mohamed Duale’s family fled Somalia in the early 90s. He was born in Somalia but grew up in Toronto.... More

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

“I absolutely love what LERRN stands for,” says Akalya Atputharajah, who is heading to Kenya this Summer.

Akalya Atputharajah’s parents came to Canada as refugees from Sri Lanka just before she was born. Other family members also followed the... More

Thursday, June 6, 2019

“This project is really important because it provides an opportunity to see how we can collaborate better, how we can learn from each other,” says Merve Erdilmen, who was born in Turkey and is heading to Tanzania to work on refugee issues.

Merve Erdilmen came to Canada from Turkey in 2014 as a research assistant to work in an international... More

Friday, May 24, 2019

“LERRN is seeking to localize that knowledge production by the people who are most affected in the global south,” says Christina Klassen, who is heading to Lebanon.

Christina Klassen spent one Summer in Jordan and when she left the Middle East, she knew she wanted to come... More

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