{"id":12252,"date":"2026-03-18T11:14:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?p=12252"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:40:28","slug":"new-reflection-note-beyond-presence-who-shapes-decisions-in-global-refugee-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2026\/new-reflection-note-beyond-presence-who-shapes-decisions-in-global-refugee-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"New Reflection Note: Beyond Presence \u2013 Who Shapes Decisions in Global Refugee Governance?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        New Reflection Note: Beyond Presence \u2013 Who Shapes Decisions in Global Refugee Governance?\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">We are pleased to share a powerful new reflection note from our colleagues at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.refugeesseat.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>R-SEAT (Refugees Seeking Equal Access at the Table)<\/strong> <\/a>following their participation in the December 2025 Global Refugee Forum Progress Review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Titled&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Beyond Presence: Who Shapes Decisions in Global Refugee Governance?&#8221;<\/strong>, this piece asks a straightforward but essential question. In a system where everyone now talks about &#8220;inclusion,&#8221; are refugees actually influencing the decisions that affect their lives, or is their presence mostly symbolic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The reflection looks honestly at what happened during the Progress Review. While over 250 participants with lived experience attended and the language of partnership was everywhere, the note questions how much has really changed. It asks whether refugees are being brought into the room to speak or to truly shape outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button \" href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/6548c4e2d272242b8df93e39\/t\/69ab1bedb71848198596084e\/1772821486012\/Reflection+Note+Beyond+Presence+Who+Shapes+Decisions+in+Global+Refugee+Governance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full reflection<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to share a powerful new reflection note from our colleagues at&nbsp;R-SEAT (Refugees Seeking Equal Access at the Table) following their participation in the December 2025 Global Refugee Forum Progress Review. Titled&nbsp;&#8220;Beyond Presence: Who Shapes Decisions in Global Refugee Governance?&#8221;, this piece asks a straightforward but essential question. In a system where everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[405,1,503],"tags":[560],"class_list":["post-12252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refugee-participation-the-lerrn-working-papers-series","category-news","category-refugee-leadership","tag-blogs"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12297,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12252\/revisions\/12297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}