Education is important to all children, but for refugee children schools provide not only learning opportunities but also safe spaces and a semblance of normalcy in young lives turned upside down by conflict and displacement. Education can serve to build community and contribute to peacebuilding, which I look forward to exploring in our Refugees, Education and […]
Forced displacement and climate change: Time for global governance
The World Refugee & Migration Council’s Rosemary McCarney and Jonathan Kent make the case for global governance of forced displacement caused by climate change.
What India’s COVID-19 Lockdown Revealed about Migrant Protection
As we approach International Migrants Day, observed each year on December 18 to mark the contributions and struggles of the world’s 272 million migrants, we examine the dramatic impacts that the COVID-19 crisis has had on migrants in India.
Panel Discussion Explores Refugee Return and Reintegration
On 7 December, the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) hosted a webinar in collaboration with the World Refugee & Migration Council. The webinar entitled ‘Placing Refugee Return and Reintegration at the Heart of International Development Policy’ comes in recognition of the challenge associated with ensuring durable solutions to forced displacement that is currently affecting […]
Multiple shocks: COVID-19 and Syrian refugees in Jordan
For Jordan, a major refugee-hosting country, these shocks come on top of the already-heavy costs of hosting Syrian refugees, which have placed significant social, economic, and political pressures on the country in the decade since the start of the Syrian conflict.