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Latest news from the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP)

12 July 2024

Placement Experience with CARE International

CENDEP Students, Syafiq Bin Sanusi and Lacey Rojas, went on a 5-month online placement with CARE International. Read the blog about their learnings from this incredible experience.

Online placement

18 June 2024

New publication: Contending with identity and minority rights in transitional justice

Senior Lecturer Farah Mihlar recently published a new article on a minority rights approach to transitional justice using the case study of Sri Lanka.

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14 June 2024

Cendep Field Trip to Ethiopia

CENDEP organised field trip in May 2024 to Ethiopia to study multiple displacement. Read the blog about the learnings from this field trip by our Masters student Lou Tooms.

Cendep Field Trip to Ethiopia

09 May 2024

Dr. Farah Mihlar awarded BA 2024 Knowledge Frontiers grant

Dr Farah Mihlar has been awarded the British Academy 2024 Knowledge Frontiers Grant for research on sustaining women's justice struggles in Sri Lanka and Lebanon.

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09 May 2024

From hostility to dignity - Think Human event

Dr Zoe Jordan spoke at the Think Human event: ‘From hostility to dignity'.

Think Human event

09 April 2024

New Short Course: Resilience, Wellbeing and Mental Health Support in Crisis Settings

As part of the Continuous Professional Development and Short Courses offered at Oxford Brookes, a new course on Resilience, Wellbeing and Mental Health Support in Crisis Settings has now become available.

New Short Course: Resilience, Wellbeing and Mental Health Support in Crisis Settings

08 April 2024

New publication: Making Your Own Weather: Self-reliance and Working for Resettlement Among Sudanese

Does self-reliance reduce the impetus for refugees to seek further travel towards Europe and other countries? How is this experienced by those excluded from mainstream humanitarian assistance?

New publication: Making Your Own Weather: Self-reliance and Working for Resettlement Among Sudanese Refugee Men in Amman, Jordan

08 April 2024

CENDEP partnering in new research on electoral reforms in Sri Lanka

A coalition including CENDEP has been awarded a grant by the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights for a 2 year project on minorities and electoral reform in Sri Lanka.

CENDEP partnering in new research on electoral reforms in Sri Lanka

08 April 2024

Sanctuary Art Project: Finding Home in Education

One of our Oxford Brookes students and MRN (Tamsin Barber and Zoe Jordan) contributed to a national collaborative Sanctuary art project, led by the University of East Anglia.

Sanctuary Art Project: Finding Home in Education

25 March 2024

New Project: Evaluating the Journey to Sanctuary for Oxford Brookes University

This project will conduct research to scope and develop the foundation for a University of Sanctuary application and action plan at Oxford Brookes.

New Project: Evaluating the Journey to Sanctuary for Oxford Brookes University