New FMO Podcasts

Podcast: Human Displacement and Climate Change in International Law
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The first of The Hague Debates was recorded by Radio Netherlands
Worldwide on Thursday, 22 May 2008 in the Peace Palace and is entitled
'When home gets too hot: Human Displacement and Climate Change in
International Law'.

A podcast of the debate is now available via the Forced Migration Online
website.
http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/hague-climate-debate/

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Podcast: Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2008
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The Refugee Studies Centre's Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture was held on
Wednesday 21st May 2008 at Somerville College, University of Oxford.
Professor James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science, Yale
University gave this years lecture on the subject of Zomia: The Last
Great Enclosure Movement and Stateless Peoples in Southeast Asia.

A podcast of the lecture is now available via the Forced Migration
Online website.

http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/colson-lecture/2008/




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Posted in: Websites & Tools.

Georgia Website / FMO Papua Video

Website gives voice to people displaced by Georgia’s conflicts

GENEVA, 30 April 2008 – People forced from their homes by war in Georgia have a new opportunity to make their voice heard. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) today published the life stories of 29 people displaced by Georgia’s conflict at www.idpvoices.org. At this site internally displaced people (IDPs) recount their experiences from before, during and after being driven from their homes by conflict.

13 of these personal accounts have also been brought together in the book A Heavy Burden - Internally Displaced in Georgia: Stories from Abkhazia and South Ossetia, published in English, Georgian, and Russian. The book was also unveiled today in Tbilisi, Georgia. (...)

Full text of the press release
IDP Voices website

Please contact the IDMC in case you would like to receive an electronic copy by e-mail.

The Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), established by the Norwegian Refugee Council, is the leading non-governmental body monitoring conflict-induced internal displacement worldwide.

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Forgotten in the Mountains: Displacement in the Highlands of Papua

The film 'Forgotten in the Mountains' is now available to view on the
Forced Migration Online website. The film looks at the issue of forced
displacement of indigenous Papuans in (West) Papua, Indonesia.

Forgotten in the Mountains:
http://www.forcedmigration.org/video/forgotten-in-the-mountains/

More videos can be viewed at:
http://forcedmigration.org/video/

Posted in: Multimedia and Websites & Tools.

New Publications List on FMO Blog

A new list of online publications has just been made available via the Forced Migration Online blog. A full list of these can be found on the Publications section of the blog at: http://fm-pubs.blogspot.com/

Publications include:

Asylum in the European Union: A Study of the Implementation of the Qualification Directive (UNHCR, Nov. 2007) [text]

"The Truth May be Bitter, but It Must be Told": The Situation of Refugees in the Aegean and the Practices of the Greek Coast Guard (Pro Asyl & Greek Group of Lawyers for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants, Oct. 2007) [text]

Podcasts on Forced Migration Online

News from Forced Migration Online, (FMO).

As part of its expanding collection of multimedia resources, the
Forced Migration Online team have launched a series of podcasts.
These audio resources comprise a series of discussions between
experts on forced migration issues from academia, practitioner
organizations and international agencies. In the near future, the
team plan to add interviews and life histories of refugees and other
displaced people.

In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the
Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) at Oxford (which hosts FMO), FMO are
beginning this series of podcasts with a collection of conversations
with prominent academics, in which they discuss the evolution the
field of refugee and forced migration studies. The first of these is
with the founder and former Director of the RSC, Dr Barbara Harrell-
Bond.

http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/

http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/harrell-bond/