Weekend Workshops in 2007
The following weekend workshops will be held in seminar rooms at the Department
of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB. The workshop
fees include a materials pack and a sandwich lunch and refreshments on both
days.
A limited number of student places at a reduced fee are available.
Psychosocial Responses to Conflict and Forced Migration
17th and 18th February 2007
Fee: £130
This two-day workshop examines mental health and psychosocial support in
Emergency and protracted refugee settings. It invites practitioners and
theorists to struggle with complex intercultural issues associated with
psychosocial programming. The workshop begins with a critical analysis of
contemporary psychological approaches to individual and community psychological
and social needs following armed conflict and displacement. It examines the
limits of Western psychological approaches to tasks such as healing and
reconciliation in the cultures and situations of complex humanitarian
emergencies. Pointing out how individualized, narrow psychosocial programs
miss important opportunities for building peace and sustainable development, it
suggests the need for integrated, holistic approaches. Next, the workshop
examines the value of indigenous psychological resources such as local rituals
and traditional practices in assisting healing, community reconciliation, and
processes of nonviolent conflict resolution. Using exemplars from field
programs it examines how to blend Western and local approaches through
processes of consultation, dialogue, and collaborative problem-solving with
local people. Attention will be paid to the recently developed Interagency
Standing Committee (IASC) guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial support,
its framework and implications.
Instructors: Dr. Michael Wessells is Senior Advisor on Child Protection
Specialist for Christian Children's Fund, Professor of Clinical Population and
Family Health at Columbia University, and Professor of Psychology at Randolph-
Macon College. Co-Chair of the Interagency Standing Committee (IASC) Task Force
on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, he conducts research on child
soldiers and post-conflict reconstruction for peace. Professor Wessells is an
advisor to UN agencies, governments and donors on child protection and has
helped develop post-conflict assistance programs in Africa, Asia and Eastern
Europe. Dr. Maryanne Loughry is the Co-convenor of the Psychosocial Working
Group, an international academic and practitioner group committed to the
development of knowledge and best practice in the field of psychosocial
interventions in complex emergencies.
Palestinian Refugees and International Law
28th and 29th April 2007
Fee: £140
This two-day workshop places the Palestinian refugee case study within the
broader context of the international human rights regime. It examines, within
a human rights framework, the policies and practices of Middle Eastern states
as they impinge upon Palestinian refugees. Through a mix of lectures, working
group exercises and interactive sessions, participants engage actively and
critically with the contemporary debates in the human rights movement and
analyse the specific context of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East
(Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank, Gaza and Israel) in light of the
debates. The workshop commences with the background of the Palestinian refugee
crisis, with special attention to the socio-political context and legal status
of Palestinian refugees in the region. This is followed by an examination of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights including its philosophical
underpinnings. The key themes, which have taken centre stage in the debate on
the crisis, are statelessness, right of return, repatriation, self-
determination, restitution compensation and protection, are critically examined
along with current discussions about the respective roles of UNRWA, UNHCR and
the UNCCP in the Palestinian refugee case.
Instructors: Dr Dawn Chatty, Reader in Anthropology and Forced Migration at the
University of Oxford, is Deputy Director of the Refugee Studies Centre. She
has conducted extensive research among Palestinians and other forced migrants
in the Middle East. Her book (edited with Gillian Lewando Hundt), Children of
Palestine: Experiencing Forced Migration in the Middle East is published by
Berghahn Press (2005). Dr Leila Hilal is currently a legal adviser on refugees
at the Palestinian Negotiations Support Unit in Ramallah. She practiced as a
litigation attorney for a class action law firm in New York City and served as
a law clerk with the South African Constitution Court. She obtained her Juris
Doctor (J.D.) from the State University of New York at Buffalo and Masters of
Law (LL.M) from Harvard University. Her legal studies focused on public
international law, with emphasis on international human rights law. Lena El-
Malak is a doctoral student in Public International Law at SOAS, University of
London. She is currently writing a thesis on Israel's State Responsibility in
International Law: The Reparations Owed to Palestinian Refugees. Lena has
worked as a Durable Solutions Assistant at UNHCR in Amman on cases involving
Palestinian refugees and as an intern at UNHCR in Cairo. She is a member of the
Massachusetts State Bar.
The Rights of Refugees Under International Law
19th and 20th May 2007
Fee: £130
This weekend seminar focuses on the specific human rights to which all refugees
are entitled under the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol. This is
a matter of increasing importance, as governments in many parts of the world
are presently engaged in efforts to redefine refugees as little more than the
objects of political and humanitarian discretion. As a matter of law, however,
refugees are holders of a critical set of rights which they are entitled to
invoke in relation to state parties to the refugee treaties. The goal of this
short course is to equip policy-makers, advocates and scholars with a solid
understanding of the international refugee rights regime. The first morning
consists of an historical analysis of the evolution of refugee rights and an
introduction to the structure of entitlement under the Refugee Convention. The
balance of the course focuses on three key themes selected for their
contemporary relevance: the right of refugees to enjoy freedom of internal
movement, to work, and to receive public assistance. The teaching methodology
combines overview lectures with a series of intensive workshops in which
participants co-operate to examine the application of legal rules in the
context of specific case studies. To ensure an intimate and involving
atmosphere, a maximum of 50 participants will be enrolled in the course.
Instructor: Professor James C Hathaway is James E. And Sarah A. Degan Professor
of Law and Director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at the University
of Michigan Law School, and Senior Visiting Research Associate at the
Department of International Development (QEH), University of Oxford. He is the
author of The Rights of Refugees Under International Law (2005) and The Law of
Refugee Status (1991), and editor of Reconceiving International Refugee Law
(1997). He has provided training on refugee law to academic, non-governmental
and official audiences in all parts of the world, and is a member of the
editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Refugee Studies and the Immigration
and Nationality Law Reports.
This course is accredited by the Law Society and Bar Council
Further information: website http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk or Dominique Attala,
Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development, Tel: +44-(0)
1865 270272; Fax: +44-(0)1865 270721; EMail: [log in to unmask]
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