Even though these events have already occurred, you can still get a sense of the discussions that took place via the various resources provided.12th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus. 28 June–2 July 2009 [access]- Listen to the podcasts of the plenary discussions."Asylum & Refugee Law National Moot Court Competition," UC Davis School of Law, 6 Feb. 2010 [access]- Read the problem presented and the competitors' briefs."Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East," UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, 12 Jan. 2010 [access]- Listen to the lecture by Dawn Chatty."The Global Implications of Climate Migration," Center for American Progress, 1 March 2010 [access]- Watch the video."Haiti’s Human Rights Challenges...
New Issues:European Journal of Development Research, vol. 22, no. 1 (Feb. 2010) [contents]- Mix of articles, including "The Concept, Causes and Consequences of Failed States: A Critical Review of the Literature and Agenda for Research with Specific Reference to Sub-Saharan Africa."International Migration Review, vol. 44, no. 1 (Spring 2010) [contents]- Mix of articles.Journal of Human Rights Practice, vol. 2, no. 1 (March 2010) [contents]- Includes mini-features on "Human Rights Fieldwork" and "Children and Armed Conflict."Revue Humanitaire, no. 23 (Dec. 2009) [full-text]- Focus is on international humanitarian law.CFP:Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana [info]- Upcoming issues will focus on "migration policies" and "forced migration."Tagged...
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The first day of this year's Financial and Private Sector Development Forum is about to wind down. I had the opportunity to attend several fascinating discussions, including:
A workshop on catastrophic risk insurance in the Caribbean
A discussion on building venture capital opportunities in developing countries
A look at Africa's industrial future
An inspirational talk by Ingrid Munro on how she built Kenya's largest microfinance institution with a team of beggars
For those unable to attend this year's forum, we have an active Twitter feed, where every attendee can share his or her thoughts on what they've seen. Check it out.
Tomorrow Niall Ferguson will discuss whether developing countries have learned from the history of money, or if they're simply doomed...
Does Haiti (or Chile) need a Marshall Plan to help recover from the ruins of natural disasters? How has the War on Poverty progressed in the United States? What about the Gates Foundation's War on Malaria?
Foreign Policy editor Moises Naim has a simple suggestion to each of these questions: It's time for a new analogy. Social policy doesn't need new wars and Marshall Plans:
In fact, no imitation of the Marshall Plan has ever worked, and no war on a big social problem has ever ended in defeat for the enemy (save, perhaps, cigarettes). But the allure of these spurious comparisons remains as strong as ever. Without any apparent effect, Marshall Plans have been proposed to help Africa, the Middle East, New Orleans, Iraq, and even Wallonia, Belgium's...
Ongoing:Refugee Law Reader [access]- This "on-line model curriculum for the study of the complex and rapidly evolving field of international asylum and refugee law" is now available in French, Russian and Spanish.Upcoming:"Renewing U.S. Commitment to Refugee Protection: The 30th Anniversary of the Refugee Act of 1980," Human Rights First & Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, 16 March 2010 [info]- Symposium with the High Commissioner for Refugees as a special guest.39th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi, 24-25 April 2010 [info]- One of the conference themes will be "Forced Migration: Emerging Global Legal & Policy Issues." Submit paper proposal by 15 April 2010."The European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights...
The International Studies Association (ISA) is holding its 51st convention in New Orleans this week. The theme is "Theory vs. Policy? Connecting Scholars and Practitioners." A number of the panels such as those listed below focus on forced migration-related issues. These are not the only with relevant papers - at 210 pages, the program is vast and forced migration papers are also included in panels that focus on other topics.The titles below link to conference abstracts. All participants must eventually provide the complete texts of their papers, but only some are available online as of this writing. Of these, most texts can be accessed via the abstract. Other titles are available in full-text, but can only be retrieved by conducting a search of the conference papers database and not...
This weekend, the PechaKucha network is joining with Architecture for Humanity to collectively rethink relief efforts and raise $1 million for rebuilding Haiti.
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"Theory vs Policy? Connecting Scholars and Practitioners," International Studies Association Annual Convention 2010, New Orleans, 17-20 February 2010 [info]"Access to Natural Resources, Human and Humanitarian Rights, Justice and Essential Medicines," 15th Annual Humanitarian Conference, Webster University, Geneva, 18-19 February 2010 [info]- The meeting will focus on three themes: Access and Outreach to Victims and Communities at Risk; Access and Value of Political and Civil Rights; and, Access to Natural Resources, Economic and Social Development."Promoting Better Protection of Internally Displaced Persons," Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, Washington, DC, 19 February 2010 [info]Refugee Law Courses, International Institute of Humanitarian Law, Sanremo, various dates...
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Investee VisionSpring will be honored with the CASE Award for Social Enterprise Innovation from Duke University.
IDE India, the organization behind our drip irrigation investment GEWP, will be featured in an upcoming BBC World News series. More details on where/when to watch, but in the meantime, you can catch a preview here.
If you’re in the New York area, Jacqueline Novogratz will be speaking at the New School on February 17. The event is open to the public; RSVPs are required....
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Here are two calls for papers with rapidly approaching deadlines:- A special journal issue on forced migration and mobilities research seeks papers "analysing environmentally induced migration from a mobilities perspective." The deadline is 5 February 2010.- The deadline for submitting abstracts for the CRS Annual Student Conference, "(Un) Routed Identities: Borders, Boundaries, and Betweens,"...
Your humble blogger was unable to travel to Davos this year, but has nevertheless enjoyed following the action online, primarily through Twitter.
For a World Bank Group perspective of what's going on, IFC Vice President Rachel Kyte's Twitter feed is an excellent source of information. Did you know that Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" rocked the house at last night's McKinsey NightCap party?
The Epicurean Dealmaker has captured the ulitmate Freudian slip from Time magazine's Michael Elliott.
Bill Gates has taken off the kid gloves with Silvio Berlusconi. "Rich people spend a lot more money on their own problems, like baldness, than they do to fight malaria."
Holden Caulfield's take on everything Davos.
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"The Forty Years' Crisis: Refugees in Europe, 1919-1959," Birkbeck College London, 15-17 September 2010 [info]- Submit abstracts of proposed papers by 1 February 2010."Dialogues between Academia and Practice," RSC Public Seminar Series, Oxford [info]- The series is held weekly and runs through 10 March; the first Feb. seminar will be 3 February 2010.Arthur C. Helton Fellowship Program, American...
Our good friends at Nuru Project, who put on the DIGNITY event with Acumen Fund’s New York chapter, are putting on a photo auction and benefit for Haiti and Partners In Health on February 4th. If you are in the New York area, we encourage you to come out for a good cause....
Felix Salmon pens an amusing, yet depressing, Davos diatribe:
It’s not like CEOs and billionaires (and billionaire CEOs) need any more flattery and ego-stroking than they get on a daily basis, but Davos gives them more than that: it allows them to flatter and ego-stroke each other, in public. They invariably leave even more puffed-up and sure of themselves than when they arrived, when in hindsight what the world really needed was for these men (it’s still very much a boys’ club) to be shaken out of their complacency and to ask themselves some tough questions about whether in fact they were leading us off a precipice.
Now that it’s clear that many of them were leading us off that cliff, there’s still no sign of contrition, although you can be sure that a few fingers will be...
Earlier today I pondered Bill Easterly's thoughts on how to help Haiti. Tomorrow I will have the opportunity to hear the thoughts of another World Bank alum-turned-charming curmudgeon: Joseph Stiglitz.
The Nobel Prize winner will be speaking at IFC about his new book, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy. For those of you on Twitter, I will be live-Tweeting the event from our WorldBankPSD Twitter page.
The event starts tomorrow, January 21st at 12:30 Washington time....
New Issues:DEP: Deportate, Esuli e Profughe, no. 11 (July 2009) [full-text]- Special issue on " Violenza, conflitti e migrazioni in America latina."Development in Practice, vol. 20, no. 1 (2010) [contents]- Mix of articles.Highlights from Addis, vol. 3, no. 2 (Dec. 2009) [full-text]- Focus is on the adoption of the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally...
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Gathering Evidence Effectively: A rough guide to navigating secondary sources of data and information on refugees and asylum seekers in the UK (ICAR, Dec. 2009) [text]- See also slides from the related seminar.Information Management and Communication in Emergencies and Disasters: Manual for Disaster Response Teams (PAHO, Dec. 2009) [text]- Covers "How to plan communication, How to manage...
Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability, "Protecting environmental migrants: creating new policy and institutional frameworks," Munich Re Foundation and UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security, Munich, 25–31 July 2010 [site]- Applications accepted until 15 January 2010.Centre for Refugee Research Summer School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 8-12 February 2010 [site]- Deadline...
- In the U.S., President Obama has declared January 2010 as "National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month"; this dovetails with National Human Trafficking Awareness Day on January 11th.- A topical research digest on "Human Rights and Human Trafficking" has been compiled by Human Rights and Human Welfare, the book review resource.- More papers are available from the First Annual...
Apply for the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS) "Teaching Fellowship in Refugee and Human Rights Law" by 15 January 2010.Submit an abstract for the CRS Student Conference, "(Un) Routed Identities: Borders, Boundaries, and Betweens," which will be held at York University in Toronto, 8-9 April 2010. Deadline is 15 January 2010.Apply for the "Protection Project Legal Internship Program...
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The weekend in Copenhagen was characterized by a plunging thermometer outside - forcing demonstrators to wrap up ever warmer on the streets of the city. Inside the Bella Center, a whole new set of people have arrived, just as negotiations enter into in a fragile state. The second week is VIP week, and so we add around 200 limousines to the general melee.
But there is good news: huddled in various hotels and echoing "offices" in the delegation portakabins, national actions are being readied irrespective in some ways of the agreement reached.
And in the finance discussions, for the first time in a draft the words "private finance" appeared. The challenge of bridging the $10bn per annum (perhaps) that negotiators hope will be pledged as fast-start funding, to...