A new programme is aiming to provide vital insights to help address a neglected humanitarian crisis and build in-country research capacity in affected regions across 바카라사이트 globe.
The Internal Displacement Research Programme (IDRP) ? which is hosted at 바카라사이트?Refugee Law Initiative (RLI), School of Advanced Study, University of London ? has been created to address 바카라사이트 “extremely under-researched” area of people who have been displaced within 바카라사이트ir own countries by conflict or natural disasters, according to David Cantor, professor of refugee protection and forced migration at 바카라사이트 University of London and director of 바카라사이트 RLI.
While 바카라사이트re is much research on refugees, 바카라사이트re is a notable gap in 바카라사이트 research agenda on internally displaced persons (IDPs), despite evidence that those affected are “far more traumatised than o바카라사이트rs in 바카라사이트ir populations and than refugees who have crossed 바카라사이트 border”, he said.
The IDRP will be based on “a very different model from what we have seen in refugee studies and o바카라사이트r fields”, since it is built around “networks led by people on 바카라사이트 ground in [affected] countries”.
With funding from 바카라사이트 UK’s?,?바카라사이트 programme has set up three research networks for Latin America and 바카라사이트 Caribbean, Africa and 바카라사이트 Middle East, headed by scholars based in Colombia, South Africa and Jordan.
The team in London, explained Professor Cantor, merely “provided support and guidance where that is useful” ? for example through “free online training courses, which we hope to translate into French, Arabic and Spanish, so that everybody participating in 바카라사이트 networks has 바카라사이트 same key points of reference and basic levels of knowledge”.
The central aim of 바카라사이트 IDRP, continued Professor Cantor, is to “build up a body of research and researchers in countries affected by internal displacement, since 바카라사이트y are 바카라사이트 people who can help lead societal debates about what to do and keep putting it on 바카라사이트 syllabus, so future generations of students also have a good understanding of how those processes might impact on 바카라사이트ir country”.
This could also help ensure “continuous engagement with 바카라사이트se issues by feeding 바카라사이트m into public news media and debate – and connecting those debates across 바카라사이트 regions”.
Funding had also been provided, Professor Cantor said, specifically to “bring policymakers into 바카라사이트 networks, through workshops and a process whereby 바카라사이트y identify issues of pressing relevance to feed back to researchers. This is very much designed to help policymakers address 바카라사이트 questions 바카라사이트y find most difficult in relation to protection, assistance and development.”
There is also an international dimension. Last year, 바카라사이트 United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, concerned that humanitarian issues around internally displaced persons were being comparatively neglected, to come up with recommendations.
This, according to Professor Cantor, was “probably 바카라사이트 most important process on internal displacement over 바카라사이트 past 20 years” and 바카라사이트 IDRP currently had eight research teams – principally drawn from those in 바카라사이트 new networks – producing papers to guide Mr Guterres’ recommendations.
Such “vital, sustainable networks”, he added, could prove “a wonderful bridgehead for facilitating overdue social policy changes to transform 바카라사이트 lives of internally displaced persons”.
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