Dear colleagues,
Please find below details of a (free) event this week at the RLI in London:
International Public Workshop
Regional Perspectives on Displacement: War, Generalised Violence and Refugee Protection
30 April 2014, 5.00 pm | L103, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Speakers:
Professor Dawn Chatty (Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford)
Professor Susan Akram (Boston, USA)
Dr David James Cantor (RLI, London)
Ahmed Arbee (IARLJ, South Africa)
Justice Isaac Lenaola (High Court of Kenya)
Chair:
Professor James Simeon (CRS, Canada)
This is the second of two International Public Seminars on 'Armed Conflict, Generalised Violence and Asylum Law' organised collaboratively by the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, Canada, and the Refugee Law Initiative at University of London, UK. They take place by video-conferencing.
This session will compare and contrast refugees, armed conflict and generalized violence at the regional level. In parts of the world affected particularly by these dynamics - such as the Middle East, Latin America and Africa - different perspectives exist on how refugee protection should function within each region. This session interrogates how such 'localized' asylum concepts and mechanisms emerge and adapt in response to the impact of refugee flows upon neighbouring and nearby countries within regions and, in turn, influence and effect international refugee law and practice. This session aims to provide a public forum for presenting and debating these global refugee law issues.
Registration is free but participants should reserve a place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/regional-perspectives-on-the-consequences-of-displacement-war-generalized-violence-and-refugee-tickets-8370036003
Kind regards,
David
Dr David James Cantor
Director of the Refugee Law Initiative
Reader in International Human Rights Law
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Future Research Leader
School of Advanced Study - University of London
Tel: +44/0 20 7862 8827 Fax: +44/0 20 7862 8820
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