FMR 70 – المَعارفُ والرَّأي والقُوَّةُ
FMR 70 – Knowledge, voice and power
FMR 70 – Savoirs, voix et pouvoir
Rhetorical commitments and funding realities in Dadaab, Kenya
Over the past five years, Northern institutions have committed in increasingly visible ways to support refugee-led research. Private foundations work to cultivate refugee scholars through flexible academic programming and fellowships.[1] Bilateral institutions use targeted funding calls to amplify the voices…
From the Editors
People with lived experience of displacement need to be heard. Their perspectives, strategies and solutions should be at the centre of discussions about policy and practice. The authors in this issue reflect on progress made but also on the road…
Reflections on approaches and barriers to reconciliation
The concepts of reconciliation and social cohesion are intimately linked: reconciliation is a process of “recreating right relationships”, with oneself and with others[1], and social cohesion is the glue that holds these relationships together. Both entail a complex and at…
Measuring social cohesion: lessons from Kakuma Camp
With the increased attention paid to social cohesion in refugee policy, there is greater need for robust methods of measuring cohesion among displaced and displacement-affected communities. At the project level, organisations that have adopted social cohesion goals into their programming…
The politics of sharing aid with host communities
In many contexts of large-scale protracted displacement, the distribution of humanitarian aid can become highly contentious, especially where local people face their own economic challenges and vulnerabilities but do not qualify for refugee assistance. In order to counter this resentment,…
Incoherent policies and contradictory priorities in Kenya
Policies should aim to realise a people or a group’s aspirations. However, in politically complex institutional environments, the design and adoption of policies may lose sight of common goals. Since the 1990s, Kenya has enforced a strict policy of refugee…