FMR 53 Local communities: first and last providers of protection It is often people’s immediate community that provides the first, last and perhaps best tactical response for many people affected by or under threat of displacement. In the 23 feature theme articles in this issue of FMR, authors from around the world – including authors who are themselves displaced – explore the capacity of communities to organise themselves before, during and after displacement in ways that help protect the community. FMR 53 also includes eight ‘general’ articles on other aspects of forced migration: gender in the international refugee regime; peace in Colombia; statelessness in Europe; entrepreneurship among refugee women in Australia; health on the Thai-Burma border; humanitarian visas in Brazil; innovation and technology; and midwifery in South Africa. Click on any link below to read the full article. 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Marion Couldrey & Maurice Herson Editors, Forced Migration Review FMR 53 Local communities: first and last providers of protection THEME ARTICLES Understanding and supporting community-led protection Nils Carstensen (Local to Global Protection / DanChurchAid) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/carstensen Challenging the established order: the need to 'localise' protection Simon Russell (Global Protection Cluster) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/russell Women-led self-protection in Sudan Nagwa Musa Konda, Leila Karim Tima Kodi and Nils Carstensen (Nuba Relief, Rehabilitation and Development Organisation / Nuba Mountains Women's Association / Local to Global Protection and DanChurchAid) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/konda-kodi-carstensen "This group is essential to our survival": urban refugees and community-based protection Jennifer S Rosenberg (Women's Refugee Commission) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/rosenberg Refugees as a first stop for protection in Kampala Eugenie Mukandayisenga (Jesuit Refugee Service) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/mukandayisenga Combatting dependency and promoting child protection in Rwanda Saeed Rahman, Simran Chaudhri, Lindsay Stark and Mark Canavera (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/rahman-chaudhri-stark-canavera Local action to protect communities in Nigeria Margee Ensign (American University of Nigeria) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/ensign Refugees hosting refugees Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (University College London) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/fiddianqasmiyeh Northern Uganda: protection in displacement, protection on return Denise Dunovant (independent) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/dunovant Rethinking support for communities' self-protection strategies: a case study from Uganda Jessica A Lenz (InterAction) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/lenz Rebuilding lives in Colombia Emese Kantor (UNHCR Colombia) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/kantor Community-based protection: the ICRC approach Angela Cotroneo and Marta Pawlak (ICRC) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/cotroneo-pawlak Networks and 'the right to the city' in Medellín, Colombia Jonathan Alejandro Murcia and James Gilberto Granada Vahos (University of Antioquia) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/murcia-granada Effective community-based protection programming: lessons from the Democratic Republic of Congo Richard Nunn (Oxfam) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/nunn Community Liaison Assistants: a bridge between peacekeepers and local populations Janosch Kullenberg (Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/kullenberg Refugee community development in New Delhi Linda Bartolomei, Mari Hamidi, Nima Mohamed Mohamud and Kristy Ward (UNSW Australia) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/bartolomei-hamidi-mohamud-ward Community policing in Kakuma camp, Kenya Hanno Brankamp (University of Oxford) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/brankamp The role of community centres in offering protection: UNHCR and Al Ghaith Association in Yemen Nicolas Martin-Achard (UNHCR) and Al Ghaith Association www.fmreview.org/community-protection/martinachard-alghaith The role of cultural norms and local power structures in Yemen Mohammed Al-Sabahi and Fausto Aarya De Santis (Oxfam Yemen) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/alsabahi-desantis The role of community in refugee journeys to Europe Richard Mallett and Jessica Hagen-Zanker (Overseas Development Institute) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/mallett-hagenzanker Integrating protection into disaster risk preparedness in the Dominican Republic Andrea Verdeja (Oxfam Dominican Republic) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/verdeja Filling the funding gap for community protection Khalid Koser and Amy Cunningham (Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/koser-cunningham Preparing for self-preservation Casey Barrs (Center for Civilians in Harm's Way / The Cuny Center) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/barrs References and resources www.fmreview.org/community-protection/resources GENERAL ARTICLES Rethinking gender in the international refugee regime Megan Denise Smith (INTERSOS) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/smith Colombia: the peace process and solutions for forced migrants Jeisson Oswaldo Martínez Leguízamo (University of Murcia) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/martinez Statelessness and the refugee crisis in Europe Katalin Berényi (Permanent Mission of Hungary to the UN in Geneva) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/berenyi Refugee women as entrepreneurs in Australia John van Kooy (Brotherhood of St Laurence) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/vankooy Power, politics and privilege: public health at the Thai-Burma border Nikhil A Patel, Amos B Lichtman, Mohit M Nair and Parveen K Parmar (Harvard Medical School / University of California / Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health / University of Southern California) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/patel-lichtman-nair-parmar Humanitarian visas: building on Brazil's experience Liliana Lyra Jubilut, Camila Sombra Muiños de Andrade and André de Lima Madureira (Universidade Católica de Santos / Universidade de São Paulo / London School of Economics) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/jubilut-andrade-madureira Engaging with innovation among refugees and IDPs Danielle Robinson (The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/robinson South African midwives caring for immigrant and refugee women Mamokgadi Gloria Victoria Koneshe (Ann Latsky Nursing College, Johannesburg) www.fmreview.org/community-protection/koneshe ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced 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