South-South Humanitarianism in Contexts of Forced Displacement
Workshop 6 October 2012
Seminar Room 3, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development
University of Oxford, 3 Mansfield Road, OX1 3TB
Programme
9.45–10.10 Registration (Tea/Coffee)
10.10–10.20 Welcome and Introduction, Prof. Dawn Chatty (Director, RSC, Oxford University)
10.20–10.30 Opening Remarks, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (RSC, Oxford University)
10.30–11.15 Opening Lecture: Contemporary Humanitarianism Action and the Role of Southern Actors: Key trends and debates, Simone Haysom (Humanitarian Policy Group, Overseas Development Institute)
11.15–13.00 Session 1: South-South Civil Society Responses to Displacement: Past and Present, Chair: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (RSC, Oxford University)
- Bottom-Up, Not Top-Down: Accommodating the displaced in mid-Albania in 1918, Beryl Nicholson (Independent researcher, UK)
- An Activist’s Perspective on South-South Humanitarianism in North-West Bangladesh, Rumana Hashem (University of East London)
- South-South Faith-Based Humanitarianism: Understanding the Social and Spiritual Capital of Local Faith Communities, Helen Stawski (Archbishop of Canterbury’s Deputy Secretary for International Development)
13.00–13.45 Lunch
13.45–15.30 Session 2: Southern Host States’ Responses to Different Forms of Displacement: Humanitarianism or Politics? Chair: Simone Haysom (Humanitarian Policy Group, Overseas Development Institute)
- Who Is a Refugee? Explaining Variation in African Host State Policies, Alexander Betts (RSC, Oxford University)
- Granting Collective Property Rights to Displaced Afro-Colombians in the 1990s: A reassessment of South-South IDP policy interventions, Carlos Eduardo Perez Corredor (Barcelona University)
- Contradictions in South-South Counter-Trafficking Initiatives: A case-study of post-war Iraq, Julia Smith (IOM Iraq)
15.30–15.45 Coffee
15.45–16.45 Session 3 Beyond Hosting: The Politics of Southern Donor States, Chair: Jeff Crisp ( Policy Development and Evaluation Service-UNHCR)
- Controversial South-South Humanitarianism: Brazil’s performance in post-disaster Haiti and towards Haitian displacement to Brazil, Diana Zacca Thomaz (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) and Fernando Brancoli (San Tiago Dantas Program, Brazil)
- South-South Humanitarianism and its Impact(s): Reflections on the Sri Lankan experience, Bhavani Fonseka (Centre for Policy Alternatives, Sri Lanka)
16.45–17.15 Closing Remarks, Jeff Crisp ( Policy Development and Evaluation Service-UNHCR)
17.15–17.30 By Means of Conclusion: Future steps, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (RSC)
This workshop is convened by Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Departmental Lecturer in Forced Migration, University of Oxford) and is generously supported by the Oxford Department of International Development’s Outreach Fund, the Refugee Studies Centre and the UNHCR’s Policy Development and Evaluation Service.
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* Refreshments and a light lunch will be provided.
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