17th Annual Workshop of the Households in Conflict Network: "Conflict, Migration, and Displacement"

HiCN Website: www.hicn.org
Online event: hosted by the University of Göttingen
Dates: 11-12 October 2021

The keynote speaker is Mathias Thoenig, Professor of Economics at the School of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne. In an open plenary session, which is jointly organized by the Centre for Global Migration Studies (CeMig) and the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), we discuss “Migration and Security Policy” with Ruben Andersson (Oxford University), Camille le Coz (Migration Policy Institute), Mercy Fekadu (Institute for Peace and Security Studies, University of Addis Abeba), and Michael Owiso (Maseno University), followed by moderated discussions in smaller groups. You can download a flyer for this session here. In another plenary session, which is jointly organized with the International Security and Development Center (ISDC), the speakers Natalya Krynsky Baal (EGRIS), Lucia Hanmer (World Bank), and Jan Beise (IDAC) will review recent efforts in data collection, standardization, and sharing on how different groups of individuals and households experience forced displacement.

The program is available here. Presenters and registered listeners will get access to the program that includes the links to the sessions (Zoom and GatherTown).