Dear Colleagues,
Call for contributions to the research project:
"Responding to Conflict-Induced Displacement in Protracted Refugee
Situations: Pathways to Enhancing Transatlantic Cooperation" - Iraq
case-study
The project, funded by the European Commission under its EU-US Policy
Research and Debate Programme, is aimed at developing a forward-looking
Transatlantic strategy for responding to protracted refugee situations.
The objectives of the project are as follows:
1. To compare the overall principles, priorities and practices governing
current US and EU policies with respect to addressing refugee and IDP
problems in order to highlight common and differing approaches.
2. To explore the US and EU perspectives on, and the nature and extent
of their respective commitments to address refugee and IDP problems in
each of the three cases (Afghanistan, Sudan and Iraq) chosen for
examination.
3. To identify areas of existing and potential common action between the
EU and the US, as well as to recommend practical steps for enhancing
Transatlantic cooperation in these three cases (in the areas where it is
desirable).
4. To identify ways to foster continued dialogue among an informal
network of policy experts and practitioners aimed at generating
additional policy recommendations for Transatlantic cooperation
pertaining specifically to these cases and at deriving lessons that
might be applicable elsewhere.
The project coordinators are looking for contributors to the Iraq
case-study, with a focus on strengthening delivery services (including
analysis, funding, logistics, planning, and coordination between major
organizations and donors), and improving care and support of Iraqi
refugees in Syria and Jordan, and IDPs in Iraq.
Papers will need to generate policy recommendations relevant to the
objectives of the project: enhance Transatlantic cooperation,
particularly in relation to other institutional actors (host states,
UNHCR, and the NGO community).
Authors of the papers are invited to offer both micro-level policy
recommendations (tailored to the case study), and maco-level
recommendation (relevant for future refugee crises).
Possible areas of emphasis are: coordination and shared situation
analysis between EU and US; particulars of the urban context; need to
think beyond relief and look at broader communities within which
refugees/IDPs have taken residence, and at prospects for durable solutions.
Use of papers:
1) Papers will form the basis of the Team Leader's synthesis paper
2) They will appear on a free-standing (dedicated) web site for the project
3) They will be included as a chapter in a bound volume that will be
published by the Middle East Institute (Washington DC) in late fall
2011, whose first run of copies will be made available to US, EU, UNHCR
officials and other experts.
Length of papers: 10/15 pages, single spaced
Time table: Draft papers are expected by mid-October, and final paper by
end of Novembre 2010.
Authors will be paid 1,000 Euros per paper.
Please send inquiries or proposals to:
Dr. John Calabrese, Project Coordinator
Middle East Institute (MEI)
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or:
Dr. Géraldine Chatelard, Iraq Team-Leader
French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo)
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Geraldine Chatelard
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