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Art, violent conflict and displacement

New article explores the idea that art plays a role in individual, communal, and societal transformations in contexts of violent conflict and displacement.

Blog
How do IDPs and refugees fit within traditional, indigenous, and local knowledge of disasters?

As part 3 in a feature series on the environment-displacement nexus, this blog examines how refugees and IDPs interact with the natural environment and hazard risks in their newly settled areas.
Blog
Uneven displacement

A part 2 in a feature series on the environment-displacement nexus, this blog takes a closer look a village in coastal Guinea-Bissau where rising sea levels and tidal flooding have gradually displaced villagers.

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Environmental justice for refugees in host countries

A part 1 in a feature series on the environment-displacement nexus, this blog examines how Syrian refugees are disproportionately harmed by air and water pollution in Lebanon.
Book
Refugee Diaspora Organisations and Humanitarianism

Latest book in the Worlds in Crisis: Refugees, Asylum, and Forced Migration series maps out actors and interactions in situations of forced displacement.
Policy brief
Worsening Crisis in the Sahel

The humanitarian landscape in Sahel is deteriorating as the invasion of Ukraine indirectly exacerbates existing vulnerabilities. This PRIO policy brief examines the state of security in Sahel vis-à-vis new geopolitical realities presented by the conflict between Russia and NATO.

Webinar
Gender and humanitarian diplomacy

This webinar on ‘Gender and Humanitarian Diplomacy’ was jointly hosted by the Xavier School of Management Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusive Leadership and the NCHS.
Report
Report overviewing conflict trends released

This PRIO paper offers an analysis of the global dataset on state-based conflicts, non-state conflicts, and one-sided violence between 1989 and 2021.
Blog
A perfect storm? The impact of the Ukraine war on donor priorities

Two seemingly unrelated global events in September – the devastating floods in Pakistan and the Russian closure of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline – intersect on the issue of funding for humanitarian relief. This blog examines the impact of the Ukraine war on donor priorities.
Article
Humanitarian negotiations, diplomacy and the ethics of border control

In this article for Open Access Government, Antonio De Lauri (NCHS Director) discusses the purpose of humanitarian negotiations, diplomacy and the ethics of border control.
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Red lines and grey zones: Exploring the ethics of humanitarian negotiation

This project will examine the ethical challenges related to humanitarian negotiations, particularly through cases from Syria, Bangladesh, Colombia, Nepal, the Mediterranean and the UN Security Council.
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Refugee education: Building durable futures

The central research question explored through this project is how do different models of education contribute to building durable futures for individual refugees and for their local and transnational communities.
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War and fun: Reconceptualising warfare and its experience

By studying the role and implications of fun for soldiers and veterans, the Warfun project aims to reframe the way we understand how war unfolds, what it means to be at war, and what the long-term effects of war are on soldiers and veterans.
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God, grievance, and greed? Understanding Northern Mozambique’s new Islamist war

This project seeks to acquire, and disseminate, a more comprehensive understanding of the multiple drivers of the escalating war in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado.

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Prioritising the displacement-environment nexus

This project pilots a novel approach to understanding the relationship between displaced people and the environment, conceptualising settlement areas as social-ecological systems to assess linkages between livelihoods, landscape change and environmental health.

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Gender, Islam and transnational legal orderings in post-US Afghanistan

This project examines the relationship between gender and Islam in Afghanistan as it affects women’s rights and protections at a time when the country’s political order is being reshaped, following the withdrawal of the US.
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Holding aid accountable

This project aims to map and analyse the moral and social dimensions of accountability as understood and practiced by civic and professional humanitarian aid providers in protracted crisis in Uganda, Somalia and Sri Lanka.

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Adhocism: Ad hoc crisis responses and international organisations

This project will study the impact of ad hoc crisis responses on international organisations (IOs) through a systematic study of ad hoc crisis responses in two policy domains, namely security and health.
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Co-duties: Democratic duties, collective action, and the greater good after COVID-19

This project aims to provide insights into the performance of individual duties in order to better understand how voluntary engagement in democratic societies may address large-scale collective action problems.
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Effects of externalisation: EU migration management in Africa and the Middle East

This project seeks to provide policy-relevant research on the effects of EU external migration policy in six countries across Africa and the Middle East
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