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Welcome to the FMO Blog

Photograph of Rwandan child refugees in Goma.

The Forced Migration Online team has launched this Blog so that we can better inform users about our plans for FMO and flag current issues we think interesting, important and perhaps worthy of wider discussion. Most importantly, we are seeking your participation.

The FMO Blog provides an opportunity for users to comment upon content and technical aspects of the FMO portal. We also welcome suggestions about resources you think we should include and any other comments on how FMO might be improved.

Members of the FMO team will regularly post messages on specific issues. But first we would like to welcome you and invite you to make any general comments or suggestions that you might have about FMO. Thanks!

This entry was posted on Friday, April 27th, 2007 at 11:09 am and is filed under blogs, forced migration. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Welcome to the FMO Blog”

  1. Katrin Volkov Says:
    March 28th, 2011 at 2:53 pm

    Dear bloggers at FMO,

    I have been following your blog and wonder whether Survival’s satirical cartoon booklet might be of interest? We’ve been using it extensively to simply communicate what is wrong with imposing external notions of development on indigenous communities. We’ve had some strongly positive feedback – Mary Robinson, for example, said: ‘”Oren Ginzburg’s little book contains the big message that we must avoid the arrogance of presuming to know what’s best for those whose voices are not heard in global debates. It reminds us of our shared responsibility to see to it that all people are active participants in shaping the decisions that impact their lives. Only then can we hope to see real development.’”

    Another Survival publication is called ‘Progress Can Kill’ describing how imposed development destroys the health of tribal peoples’ – a considerably more somber approach to the same issue, drawing on case studies from around the world.

    Our links to the publications are: http://www.survivalinternational.org/thereyougo and http://www.survivalinternational.org/progresscankill

    I’d also be happy to send you a complimentary copy of There You Go! by post.

    Your assistance with conveying this all important message would be greatly appreciated.

    I look forward to hearing from you soon.

    Kind Regards,
    Katrin

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