FMR 48 - Chins in Mizoram state, India: a faith-based response

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The faith community in Mizoram state in India has played an instrumental role in providing social services, changing perceptions of refugees, and providing access and assistance, reaching the most vulnerable where there's no international presence.

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Faith and displacement (Forced Migration Review 48)

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Jenny Yang

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faith-based humanitarianism

Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 03/06/2015

Duration: 00:07:48

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FMR 48 - Engaging IDPs in Sri Lanka: a Buddhist approach

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A Buddhist Sri Lankan NGO provides an example of how endogenous faith-based civil society organisations can help mobilise IDPs in owning and defining strategies for their own protection. - See more at: http://www.fmreview.org/faith/contents#sthash.Ktl8olu

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Faith and displacement (Forced Migration Review 48)

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Emily Barry-Murphy

Max Stephenson

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faith-based humanitarianism

sri lanka

Buddism

idp

Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 03/06/2015

Duration: 00:07:48

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FMR 48 - An ecumenical organisation for asylum seekers in Switzerland

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An ecumenical organisation provides socio-pastoral assistance for asylum seekers while they go through the first crucial steps of the asylum proceedings.

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Faith and displacement (Forced Migration Review 48)

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Susy Mugnes

Felicina Proserpio

Luisa Deponti

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forced migration review

faith-based humanitarianism

ecumenical

pastoral support

Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 03/06/2015

Duration: 00:05:39

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FMR 48 - African refugees and the particular role of churches in the UK

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Many churches have the necessary physical and social assets to assist refugees in the community both individually and by bringing them together.

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Faith and displacement (Forced Migration Review 48)

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Samuel Bekalo

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forced migration review

faith-based humanitarianism

Church

Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 03/06/2015

Duration: 00:04:04

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FMR 48 - Post-disaster recovery and support in Japan

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As a locally based faith-based organisation, there were several aspects that enabled Soka Gakkai to contribute effectively to the relief effort following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, responding to both physical and psychological needs.

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Faith and displacement (Forced Migration Review 48)

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Kimiaki Kawai

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forced migration review

faith-based humanitarianism

japan

earthquake

2011

Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 03/06/2015

Duration: 00:03:52

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FMR 48: ‘Welcoming the stranger’ and UNHCR’s cooperation with faith-based organisations

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Since its creation in 1950, UNHCR has engaged with faith-based organisations, faith communities and faith leaders in carrying out its work. Recently, UNHCR has been more actively exploring the role of faith in humanitarian responses.

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Faith and displacement (Forced Migration Review 48)

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José Riera

Marie-Claude Poirier

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forced migration review

faith-based humanitarianism

unhcr

Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 03/06/2015

Duration: 00:15:02

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FMR 48 - What’s faith got to do with it?

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Use of the faith-based label demands greater clarification lest it lose coherence and result in adverse policy implications, excluding religiously motivated actors from providing much-needed assistance to displaced communities, particularly inside Syria.

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Tahir Zaman

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forced migration review

faith-based humanitarianism

syria

labels

Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 03/06/2015

Duration: 00:04:21

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FMR 48 - Refugees’ integration in Uganda will require renewed lobbying

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A legal decision about whether refugees in Uganda can become citizens continues to be delayed.

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Georgia Cole

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Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 03/06/2015

Duration: 00:07:24

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FMR 48 - The 1969 OAU Convention and the continuing challenge for the African Union

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Forty years after the OAU Convention on Refugees came into force, the dismal state in which refugees in Africa find themselves these days raises the question as to whether the Convention has lived up to expectations.

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J O Moses Okello

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Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 03/06/2015

Duration: 00:06:59

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FMR 48 - From violence to more violence in Central America

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Many Central American migrants flee their home country as a result of violence and threats from the criminal gangs. A large number of them also encounter the same type of violence that they are fleeing when on the migratory routes through Mexico.

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