Dear all,
Kristian Berg Harpviken and myself are organizing a panel for a
conference on ‘Globalization: Nation States, Forced Migration and Human
Rights’ at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in
Trondheim, on 27 and 28 November 2008. The panel is entitled Migration,
Peace and Conflict: The transnational political engagements of refugees,
and an abstract can be found below or on the conference website. If you
are interested in participating, please send an abstract to myself, c.c.
Kristian and Anders Broli Asphaug, before 30 June 2008. We will contact
you by 9 July to let you know whether your abstract has been accepted,
so that you can register for the conference and make your travel
arrangements timely. Unfortunately, we do not have funding to cover
costs of participants.
We wish to use the opportunity of this panel to get in touch with other
researchers working on this topic, exchange experiences and knowledge
from the research projects each of us is engaged in, discuss
opportunities of collaborating in the future and look at joint
publication opportunities. We hope to see you in Trondheim!
Best wishes, Cindy
Cindy Horst
Senior Researcher
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)
PO Box 9229 Grønland
0134 Oslo
+ 47 22 54 77 49
Migration, Peace and Conflict: The transnational political engagements
of refugees
Migration, peace and conflict are linked in a number of ways. On the one
hand, many migration flows are caused by armed conflict; while on the
other, refugee diasporas may play an active role in the perpetuation or
resolution of conflicts. In this panel, we wish to discuss the
transnational political engagements of refugees from an analytical,
methodological and empirical angle. Questions that will be addressed
include: what concepts are available to us to describe and explain
political transnationalism; how do we best study this phenomenon; what
are the challenges and strengths of conducting multi-sited fieldwork on
transnational political engagements; what are the mechanisms through
which diaspora groups impact peace and conflict dynamics; what
comparisons can we make between different case studies? We invite
contributions that will discuss these and related issues, and encourage
those interested to contact the organizers.
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