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Towards a Theory of Asylum as Reparation for Past Injustice, Political Studies, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9248.12019/abstract James Souter, DPhil Candidate, International Development Wolfson College, University of Oxford [log in to unmask] In this article, I contend that asylum should at times act as a form of reparation for past injustice. This function, I argue, stems from states' special obligation to provide asylum to refugees for whose lack of state protection they are responsible. After suggesting that the development of a theory of asylum as reparation necessitates a diachronic approach, I outline the conditions under which asylum should function reparatively, and draw on the reparations framework within international law to suggest that asylum can provide refugees with meaningful restitution, compensation and satisfaction. In particular, I seek to identify the conditions under which asylum constitutes the most fitting form of reparation for the harm of refugeehood that is available to states. Finally, I explore the question of how direct the causal link between a state's actions and a refugee's flight must be for the former to owe asylum to the latter. Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities: Changing Our World, http://www.socialentrepreneurship-book.com/ Emily Arnold-Fernádezd, Executive Director, Asylum Access Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities, edited by Dr. Zachary D. Kaufman, provides crucial insight into social entrepreneurship from visionaries in the field as well as other experienced practitioners and renowned theorists. While this book focuses on social entrepreneurship as it relates to genocide and other atrocities, the experiences and lessons learned also apply to critical social, economic, legal, and political problems such as healthcare, development, education, and literacy. The authors discuss the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities in the field and lend new insight to the concept, history, and methodologies of social entrepreneurship. Global Review of UNHCR's Engagement with Displaced Youth, http://www.unhcr.org/513f37bb9.html Policy Development and Evaluation Service (PDES), UNHCR The review explores UNHCR's engagement with displaced youth, refugees and IDPs, by analysing the agency's mandate in relation to youth through its policies, guidelines and strategies, institutional infrastructure, approaches to identifying and responding to the needs of displaced youth, current funding, programmes as well as its monitoring and evaluation processes. PDES would also like to draw your attention to a number of other recent publications, all of which can be accessed here: http://www.unhcr.org/pages/4a1d28526.html ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by Forced Migration Online, Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Posting guidelines: http://www.forcedmigration.org/research-resources/discussion/forced-migration-discussion-list-posting-guidelines Subscribe/unsubscribe: http://tinyurl.com/fmlist-join-leave List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html RSS: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?RSS&L=forced-migration Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/refugeestudies Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/refugeestudiescentre