Thematic Focus: General

Event:

Conference: Disasters: Leading Disaster Studies for 40 Years, London, 14 September 2017 [info]
- Will also be livestreamed. Note that attending in person is by invitation only; if you would like to participate, contact j.nesbitt@odi.org.uk with your name and organization.

Publications:

The Central Mediterranean Route: Migrant Fatalities, January 2014-July 2017 (IOM, July 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

*Developing Recommendations on Official IDP Statistics (JIPS, Aug. 2017) [text]
- See also the related Expert Group on Refugee and IDP Statistics (EGRIS).

Global Shapers Survey 2017 (World Economic Forum, Aug. 2017) [access]
- This annual survey is "designed to highlight youth perceptions on the state of the world and action-oriented recommendations in five areas: Global Outlook, Governance, Values, Technology, and the Workplace." A question on refugees was included. Follow the link above to access the full report and data. See also this related Amnesty International news article and WEF blog post.

"Governing Migration through Death in Europe and the US: Identification, Burial and the Crisis of Modern Humanism," European Journal of International Relations, vol. 23, no. 3 (2017) [postprint]

Hurricane versus Monsoon (IRIN, Aug. 2017) [text]

IOM Framework for Addressing Internal Displacement (IOM, Sept. 2017) [text]

Missing Migrants and Their Families: The ICRC’s Recommendations to Policy-makers (ICRC, Aug. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Oxytocin-enforced Norm Compliance Reduces Xenophobic Outgroup Rejection," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 114, no. 35 (Aug. 2017) [open access]

Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, UN Doc. No. A/72/202 (UN General Assembly, July 2017) [text via Refworld]

"Stopping Boats, Saving Lives, Securing Subjects: Humanitarian Borders in Europe and Australia," European Journal of International Relations, vol. 23, no. 3 (2017) [postprint]

UN Global Compact on Migration: Preventing Torture of Migrants Should be at the Core of the Compact, APT Position Paper (Association for the Prevention of Torture, July 2017) [text]

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