This podcast was recorded at an Astor Visiting Fellow Lecture, held on Tuesday 25th January 2011 at The Taylor Institute in Oxford.Sondra Hale, Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies, (UCLA)spoke on the subject of “Gendered Violence and the Politics of Memory in Sudan’s Conflict Zones“.
This podcast was recorded at a launch event for the fifth Refugee Studies Centre Policy Briefing which was held on Thursday 30th September 2010 at the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, London.
The talk given by Dr Jason Hart & Claudia Lo Forte, was on the subject of the Policy Briefing – ‘Protecting Palestinian children from political violence: the role of the international community’.
Drawing on extensive field and desk research, the briefing considers the role of international and UN organisations in protecting Palestinian children.
A new collection of photographs: “No Peace of Mind – Stories of Displacement in the DRC” is now available on Forced Migration Online.
Around two million people are internally displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in central Africa, and nearly 500,000 Congolese people are refugees in neighbouring countries. The DRC continues to be plagued by widespread violence and insecurity, which prevent many people from receiving vital assistance.
The photographs in this collection were part of an exhibition, “No Peace of Mind – Stories of Displacement in the DRC”, which was held by the Refugee Studies Centre in December 2010.
The most recent RSC Policy Briefing “Protecting Palestinian children from political violence: the role of the international community” was launched in London on Thursday 30 September.
The briefing, written by Dr Jason Hart and Claudia Lo Forte, considers the role of international and UN organisations in protecting Palestinian children. Four distinguishing features of a rights-based approach to child protection are identified:
Following the publication of this policy briefing, we have also updated our Resource Summary on Palestine.
“Protecting Palestinian Children from Political Violence: The Role of the International Community” by Dr Jason Hart and Claudia Lo Forte is the latest policy briefing from the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre.
Drawing on extensive field and desk research, this study considers the role of international and UN organisations in protecting Palestinian children. Four distinguishing features of a rights-based approach to child protection are identified: the prioritisation of child protection over national self-interest, a focus on causes and not merely effects, the need for political engagement around international legal standards, and the mobilisation of public opinion.
Fragile states are those most vulnerable to internal and external shocks. Such states lack legitimate institutions, and are thus vulnerable to endemic conflict and crisis.
State fragility contributes to forced migration through many channels. In addition, such states offer particular obstacles to the securing of humanitarian assistance and spaces for protection.
FMO’s latest resource summary highlights a sample selection of web-based resources that focus on state fragility. Links are provided to full-text documents, journal articles, external resources, and organizations.
This podcast was recorded as part of the Oxfam Archive Oral History project.
It features an interview with Maurice Herson, Editor of Forced Migration Review and previously Deputy Humanitarian Director and Head of Humanitarian Programme Advisory Team at Oxfam.
‘Rwanda and the Great Lakes: A Personal View from the Oxfam Archive” is the second of a two-part series. In this recording, Maurice speaks about the Great Lakes emergency and the Rwanda genocide.
The first podcast focused on Maurice’s career in Sudan in the 1980s.
Forced Migration Online has recently published a new resource summary, focusing on Angola.
The Republic of Angola is on the west coast of south-central Africa, and has an estimated population of around 13 million people. Wealthy in natural resources, it is now one of the fastest growing economies in Africa, fuelled mainly by its oil production.
Despite this apparent wealth however, the country faces enormous socio-economic problems. These are the product of a 27-year long civil war, which raged from 1975 to 2002 between the governing MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) and UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola). At the height of the civil war, it is estimated that over 4 million people were displaced.
All our summaries provide links to key resources, websites and documents exploring contemporary debate on on key issues, in forced migration as well as links to wider issues concerned with human rights and displacement.
Our full collection of resource summaries, focusing on specific regions and themes, can be accessed from the links below.
Forced Migration Online has recently published a new resource summary, focusing on Algeria.
The summary provides an outline of present and historical causes of forced migration within Algeria. It also gives an overview of Algeria’s relationship to various international refugee conventions and its role as host to several thousand refugees including the Sahrawi, as well as refugees from Palestine and Sub-Saharan Africa.
All our summaries provide links to key resources, websites and documents exploring contemporary debate on on key issues, in forced migration as well as links to wider issues concerned with human rights and displacement. Our full collection of resource summaries, focusing on specific regions and themes, can be accessed from the links below.
We are pleased to announce that the ‘photo gallery’ section of Forced Migration Online has been re-launched. In addition to enjoying an improved layout when browsing individual albums, users will also be able to search our full database of photographs.
There are now over 600 photographs in the FMO image database, including a new album of photos on the topic of “Self-Settled and Settlement Refugees in Uganda” (© Ayla Bonfiglio, 2008).
Uganda is one of the few countries to allow refugees to either settle themselves within the national population, or to live in a refugee settlement. This collection of photographs was taken during a comparative study on self-reliance among refugees from these two settlement contexts.
If you have a collection of photographs relating to forced migration and are interested in submitting them for inclusion on FMO please visit our submissions page.