ICERAS

1.Success in Campaigning – training course for Refugee Women

Training will be held every Wednesday for five weeks from 16 January 2013 to 13 February 2013 in central London

Over the five sessions, specialist trainers will work with you to develop your campaigning skills, teach you about the UK political process, and help you gain confidence in public speaking– so that you have the skills to make change happen.

Run by Women for Refugee Women and the Refugee Council, this project will enable refugee and asylum seeking women to make a difference – both in their communities and contribute to national campaigns. The course is open to any woman who has applied for asesylum, whether she is refused, is still in the process, or now has leave to remain or citizenship.

An application form for the training course is in the attached file. If you have any queries  please contact Anna by emailing anna.musgrave@refugeecouncil.org.uk or calling

020 7346 1031. The deadline for applications is 7 December 2012.

2.Celebrate International Human Rights Day with the Refugee Therapy Centre

 

3.Refugee Studies Centre 30th Anniversary Conference ‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’

The RSC’s 30th Anniversary Conference aims to examine and theorise the policy-making processes relating to refugees and forced migration at the global level. Critical reflection upon the processes through which global public policy on refugees, internally displaced persons, statelessness, human trafficking, and other areas of forced migration is made, is intended to offer new and valuable insights for scholars, policy makers and practitioners.

This conference therefore provides a forum for a critical discussion on ‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’ by bringing together academics, policy makers, practitioners, advocates and displaced people to engage in a debate on how we might begin to make sense of and conceptualise the global refugee policy process. It seeks to explore the nature, content and implications of ‘global refugee policy’ with questions such as: What is ‘global refugee policy’? How can we theorise global refugee policy? What factors explain variation both in the motivations for policies, and in outcomes? To what extent do the diverse interests and priorities of key stakeholders shape global refugee policy, and to what effect?

Register for the conference

There are 2 registration options available

Option 1 Residential – £350.00  Includes conference registration fee, 2 nights B&B accommodation at St Anne’s College on 5th and 6th December, lunch on Thursday and Friday (6th and 7th December) and conference refreshments.

Option 2 Non-Residential – £200.00 Includes conference registration fee, lunch on Thursday and Friday (6th and 7th December) and conference refreshments

Register at the University of Oxford On-Line Store

Downloads

Draft conference programme
(PDF 154KB)

Global Refugee Policy: varying perspectives, unanswered questions
Background Paper (PDF 236KB)

Contact

Ms Heidi El-Megrisi
International Summer School and Conferences Manager

Tel: +44 (0)1865 281728/9
Fax: +44 (0)1865 281730
Email: rsc-conference@qeh.ox.ac.uk