ODID, Oxford, December 2024
Professor Dawn Chatty held a special event, hosted by UNDP, at the United Nations in support of Mobile Peoples, ahead of the release of the report of the UN Special Rapporteur for Indigenous Peoples. This report is a response to the Dana Declaration +20 Manifesto of 2022, the outcome of the Dana +20 Workshop which was organised by the Refugee Studies Centre and the School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE).
ODID are pleased to announce that Professor Amir Lebdioui has been appointed to the AfCFTA Trade and Industrial Development Advisory Council. The Advisory Council provides advice on trade integration, climate change and transformative industrialization as part of the implementation of the AfCFTA (African Continental Free Trade Area).
OPHI is a founding member of the G20 Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty which was officially launched on 18 November in Rio de Janeiro during the G20 Leaders’ Summit. OPHI has committed to share experiences of developing and using MPIs as policy tools to help address poverty and hunger worldwide.
FMR 74 ‘Financing displacement response’ is now available online in English, Arabic, Spanish and French. How does displacement response financing interact with the choices of forcibly displaced people and their communities, with local and global economies, and with broader geopolitical events and trends? This issue advances understanding of these questions and others.
Media
- Matthew Gibney has written in The Conversation on whether refugees have a duty to be grateful.
- Ruben Andersson has written an op-ed in the New York Times asking ‘When did liberals become so comfortable with war?’
- Ruben has also written for openDemocracy that Starmer’s counter-terror plan for migration woefully misses the mark.
- Jodi-Ann Jue Xuan Wang (DPhil candidate) has written for The Conversation on the Cop29 climate finance deal and why poor countries are angry.
- Olivier Sterck and Raphael Bradenbrink (DPhil candidate) have written for The Conversation on the high levels of depression experienced by refugees in east Africa.
- Tom Scott-Smith has written two blogs for LSE: Give refugees autonomy to solve the asylum accommodation problem and Refugee shelter: why autonomy matters most.
Publications
Sabina Alkire, Usha Kanagaratnam and Nicolai Suppa (2024) ‘A methodological note on the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2024: Changes over time results for 86 countries’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 60.
Loren B Landau (2024) ‘Countering Containment: Chronoscopy and Resistance in an Era of Externalisation,’ Geopolitics.
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato and Loren B Landau (2024) ‘Now You See Them, Now You Don’t: Performance and the Politics of Localizing (Forced) Migration Governance in the Horn of Africa’s Secondary Cities,’ Environment and Urbanisation, 36(2): 300-317.
Naohiko Omata and Yotam Gidron (2024) ‘Returning to fund refugeehood: dispersal and survival between Uganda and South Sudan’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Event videos/podcasts
- Tom Scott-Smith gave a talk at LSE on Fragments of home: refugee housing, humanitarian design and the politics of shelter.
- Muhammad Meki gave a talk at British International Investment (the UK government’s development finance institution) on ‘Flexible Finance for Development: Bridging Research and Practice’.
- Helidah Ogude-Chambert presented a paper on ‘Cruel Colonial Re-Imaginings’ (on Spotify) at the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London on 19 November, as part of a series of seminars on Moments in Refugee History and the Development of the Modern Refugee Regime.