‘Without Exception’ – Equal Space for Knowledge Production

In this blog post Sorcha Daly and Aydan Greatrick share some of the challenges they experienced and the practical solutions they found during the planning and organising of the Refugee Hosts’ International Conference, ‘Without Exception: the politics and poetics of local responses to displacement.’  A key theme at the conference was the politics and ethics…

Objective enough to tell the truth

This presentation was given by Dima Al-Hamadmad at the Refugee Hosts International Conference and examined the many narratives regarding the Syrian conflict and subsequent displacement of refugees from Syria, and the impact of this narrative on refugee rights and an increasingly hostile environment.  Objective enough to tell the truth by Dima Al-Hamadmad, Researcher, Refugee Hosts Objectivity means telling…

Panel 1: Disrupting Humanitarian Narratives

This panel was hosted at the Refugee Hosts International Conference on the 24th October 2019, from 11:15 – 12:45 Chair: Sarah Clarke (Article 19) Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Refugee Hosts – UCL) Dima Al-Hamadmad (Refugee Hosts) Dr Tom Western (University of Oslo) Unfortunately, the audio on the recording of Sarah Clarke’s introduction to this panel was…