{"id":1375,"date":"2020-04-19T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T00:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:40:07","slug":"by-refugees-for-refugees-refugee-leadership-during-covid-19-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2020\/by-refugees-for-refugees-refugee-leadership-during-covid-19-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"By Refugees, for Refugees: Refugee leadership during COVID-19 and Beyond"},"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                        By Refugees, for Refugees: Refugee leadership during COVID-19 and Beyond\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/global-refugee-forum.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Refugee Forum<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Geneva in December 2019, LERRN partnered with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrefugeelednetwork.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Refugee-led Network<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to endorse the importance of refugee participation. Now in the midst of this global pandemic, it\u2019s more important than ever to recognize refugees as partners in the COVID-19 response, as well as equal <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">partners in research, policy and practice. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This blog post was co-authored by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">refugee leaders from LERRN Mustafa Alio and Pascal Zigashane, along with LERRN Project Director James Milner and leaders from the Global Refugee-led Network Shaza Alrihawi, Anila Noor and Najeeba Wazefadost to discuss the importance of embracing and supporting refugee leadership and delivering on our promise of refugee participation.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au\/publication\/refugees-refugees-refugee-leadership-during-covid-19-and-beyond\">Read the full blog post<\/a> published on the Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law website.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva in December 2019, LERRN partnered with the Global Refugee-led Network to endorse the importance of refugee participation. Now in the midst of this global pandemic, it\u2019s more important than ever to recognize refugees as partners in the COVID-19 response, as well as equal partners in research, policy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[57,286,283,1,285,195],"tags":[560],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-james-milner","category-mustafa-alio","category-news","category-pascal-zigashane","category-refugee-participation","tag-blogs"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","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=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}