{"id":3534,"date":"2021-03-25T01:50:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T05:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=3534"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:40:56","slug":"lerrn-idrc-webinar-host-communities","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/event\/lerrn-idrc-webinar-host-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"LERRN-IDRC Webinar | \u202fRefugee-host community relations during Covid-19 and beyond: Lessons from the Middle East and Southern Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/lerrn-idrc-webinar-refugee-host.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/lerrn-idrc-webinar-refugee-host.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/lerrn-idrc-webinar-refugee-host.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/lerrn-idrc-webinar-refugee-host-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/lerrn-idrc-webinar-refugee-host-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/lerrn-idrc-webinar-refugee-host-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/lerrn-idrc-webinar-refugee-host-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/lerrn-idrc-webinar-refugee-host-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/lerrn-idrc-webinar-refugee-host-200x113.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button \" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/LERRN-IDRC-Webinar-Host-Communities.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View this info in PDF form<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fifth webinar in the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/\">LERRN<\/a>\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/idrc.ca\">IDRC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/learn-with-lerrn\/webinars\/#webinar-21-jan-2021\">webinar series on forced displacement<\/a> focuses on refugees and host community relations. The webinar will examine the factors that shape relations between refugees and host communities in various contexts, exploring the diverse challenges to authorities, humanitarian actors, refugees, and receiving host communities due to protracted refugee situations. Drawing on lessons from the Middle East and Southern Africa, it will consider solutions to fostering social cohesion and mitigating rising social tensions between refugees and host communities in urban and camp settings.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button \" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/learn-with-lerrn\/webinars\/#webinar-08-apr-2021\">Video recording &amp; post-webinar report<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 id=\"moderators\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Moderators:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n    \n\n\n                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                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These monthly seminars will address several dimensions of forced displacement, with an emphasis on the perspectives of actors who are closest to the issues being discussed. For event details, recordings, and post-webinar reports, click <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/learn-with-lerrn\/webinars\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\">LERRN<\/a>&nbsp;is a team of researchers and practitioners committed to promoting protection and solutions with and for refugees. The goal is to ensure that refugee research, policy and practice are shaped by a more inclusive, equitable and informed collective engagement of civil society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of Canada\u2019s foreign affairs and development efforts,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idrc.ca\/en\">IDRC<\/a>&nbsp;invests in knowledge, innovation, and solutions to improve the lives of people in the developing world. Bringing together the right partners around opportunities for impact, IDRC builds leaders for today and tomorrow and helps drive change for those who need it most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[168],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-3534","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-lerrn-idrc-webinar-series"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2021-04-08T09:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2021-04-08T10:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"LERRN","cu_event_email":"lerrn@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4445,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3534\/revisions\/4445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}