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New research on Ukrainian refugees’ employment outcomes reveals that higher education does not always translate into better employment recovery after displacement.
The issue of internal displacement remains poorly understood despite the very large number of people involved.
There’s more to being a refugee than crossing a border.
Nigeria’s housing policies have failed to meet the needs of its federal capital residents.
Many relatives have not seen each other for years because travelling around Ukraine is unsafe and trips abroad are expensive and, sometimes, restricted.
Disaster recovery agencies and governments must pay more attention to survivors’ invisible losses: grief, broken communities and disrupted identities.
Young people in Bo City, Sierra Leone became youth climate leaders after turning a low-cost Climate Science Hub into a space for science-informed action.
We look at Sudan’s long history of civilian-led resistance, and how community networks and youth movements are laying the foundations for re-establishing peaceful rule in a country marked by deep political fragmentation.
For the first time, countries now have a shared way to understand whether the world is actually improving at adapting to climate impacts.
Some 1 million Syrians were welcomed in Germany after fleeing civil war. They are increasingly unwelcome in a country where politics have swung sharply right.
Priced out of ‘safe,’ more and more Americans are moving to flood plains and fire zones.
It’s time to rethink how Africa’s public spaces are defined and designed – by listening to how people already make cities public.
Reduction in humanitarian aid globally offers opportunities to address the power imbalances on which data-driven humanitarianism is built.
Palestinian literature gives voice to the challenging experience of belonging to a nation in exile.
Sudan’s war has triggered a massive displacement crisis, with more than 14 million people forced to flee their homes.
The US was a world leader in refugee resettlement. Trump stopped all that with one executive order. What does the end of refugee resettlement look like in practice?
For almost 80 years, Palestinians in Gaza have resisted proposals to resettle elsewhere.
Private conservation groups channel huge sums of money to parks and protected areas around the world, but often have failed to protect basic rights of Indigenous people living on those lands.
A year on from the Hamas attacks and Israel’s continued bombardment of Gaza, new fronts of fighting are creating another generation of displaced people across the region.
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Senior Research Associate, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University
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Associate Professor of Urban & Environmental Design, University of Khartoum
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Professor of Human Geography, University of Leicester
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Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University
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Associate Professor of History, University of Richmond
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Science + Technology Editor, The Conversation
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Colorado State University
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Former Lead Research Fellow at Uni of Warwick, Currently a Policy and Programme Officer at UNWFP, Chad, University of Warwick
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Producer, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Professor of Anthropology, University of Northern Iowa
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PhD Candidate, Sustainable Urbanisation, University of Lagos
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University
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PhD Candidate, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, and Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney