Deadline: 15 October 2010
"Responding to Conflict-Induced Displacement in Protracted Refugee Situations: Pathways to Enhancing Transatlantic Cooperation" - Iraq case-study
The project, funded by the European Commission under its EU-US Policy Research and Debate Programme, is aimed at developing a forward-looking Transatlantic strategy for responding to protracted refugee situations.
The objectives of the project are as follows:
1. To compare the overall principles, priorities and practices governing current US and EU policies with respect to addressing refugee and IDP problems in order to highlight common and differing approaches.
2. To explore the US and EU perspectives on, and the nature and extent of their respective commitments to address refugee and IDP problems in each of the three cases (Afghanistan, Sudan and Iraq) chosen for examination.
3. To identify areas of existing and potential common action between the EU and the US, as well as to recommend practical steps for enhancing Transatlantic cooperation in these three cases (in the areas where it is desirable).
4. To identify ways to foster continued dialogue among an informal network of policy experts and practitioners aimed at generating additional policy recommendations for Transatlantic cooperation pertaining specifically to these cases and at deriving lessons that might be applicable elsewhere.
The project coordinators are looking for contributors to the Iraq case-study, with a focus on strengthening delivery services (including analysis, funding, logistics, planning, and coordination between major organizations and donors), and improving care and support of Iraqi refugees in Syria and Jordan, and IDPs in Iraq.
Papers will need to generate policy recommendations relevant to the objectives of the project: enhance Transatlantic cooperation, particularly in relation to other institutional actors (host states, UNHCR, and the NGO community).
Authors of the papers are invited to offer both micro-level policy recommendations (tailored to the case study), and maco-level recommendation (relevant for future refugee crises).
Possible areas of emphasis are: coordination and shared situation analysis between EU and US; particulars of the urban context; need to think beyond relief and look at broader communities within which refugees/IDPs have taken residence, and at prospects for durable solutions.
Use of papers:
1) Papers will form the basis of the Team Leader's synthesis paper
2) They will appear on a free-standing (dedicated) web site for the project
3) They will be included as a chapter in a bound volume that will be published by the Middle East Institute (Washington DC) in late fall 2011, whose first run of copies will be made available to US, EU, UNHCR officials and other experts..
Length of papers: 10/15 pages, single spaced
Time table: Draft papers are expected by mid-October, and final paper by end of Novembre 2010.
Authors will be paid 1,000 Euros per paper.
Please send inquiries or proposals to:
Dr. John Calabrese, Project Coordinator
Middle East Institute (MEI)
jcalabrese@mei.edu
or:
Dr. Géraldine Chatelard, Iraq Team-Leader
French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo)
gchatelard@yahoo.com
More information here.
"Responding to Conflict-Induced Displacement in Protracted Refugee Situations: Pathways to Enhancing Transatlantic Cooperation" - Iraq case-study
The project, funded by the European Commission under its EU-US Policy Research and Debate Programme, is aimed at developing a forward-looking Transatlantic strategy for responding to protracted refugee situations.
The objectives of the project are as follows:
1. To compare the overall principles, priorities and practices governing current US and EU policies with respect to addressing refugee and IDP problems in order to highlight common and differing approaches.
2. To explore the US and EU perspectives on, and the nature and extent of their respective commitments to address refugee and IDP problems in each of the three cases (Afghanistan, Sudan and Iraq) chosen for examination.
3. To identify areas of existing and potential common action between the EU and the US, as well as to recommend practical steps for enhancing Transatlantic cooperation in these three cases (in the areas where it is desirable).
4. To identify ways to foster continued dialogue among an informal network of policy experts and practitioners aimed at generating additional policy recommendations for Transatlantic cooperation pertaining specifically to these cases and at deriving lessons that might be applicable elsewhere.
The project coordinators are looking for contributors to the Iraq case-study, with a focus on strengthening delivery services (including analysis, funding, logistics, planning, and coordination between major organizations and donors), and improving care and support of Iraqi refugees in Syria and Jordan, and IDPs in Iraq.
Papers will need to generate policy recommendations relevant to the objectives of the project: enhance Transatlantic cooperation, particularly in relation to other institutional actors (host states, UNHCR, and the NGO community).
Authors of the papers are invited to offer both micro-level policy recommendations (tailored to the case study), and maco-level recommendation (relevant for future refugee crises).
Possible areas of emphasis are: coordination and shared situation analysis between EU and US; particulars of the urban context; need to think beyond relief and look at broader communities within which refugees/IDPs have taken residence, and at prospects for durable solutions.
Use of papers:
1) Papers will form the basis of the Team Leader's synthesis paper
2) They will appear on a free-standing (dedicated) web site for the project
3) They will be included as a chapter in a bound volume that will be published by the Middle East Institute (Washington DC) in late fall 2011, whose first run of copies will be made available to US, EU, UNHCR officials and other experts..
Length of papers: 10/15 pages, single spaced
Time table: Draft papers are expected by mid-October, and final paper by end of Novembre 2010.
Authors will be paid 1,000 Euros per paper.
Please send inquiries or proposals to:
Dr. John Calabrese, Project Coordinator
Middle East Institute (MEI)
jcalabrese@mei.edu
or:
Dr. Géraldine Chatelard, Iraq Team-Leader
French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo)
gchatelard@yahoo.com
More information here.
