Hello All,<br><br>Our colleague Evan Leibovitch from At-Large is running a workshop on Friday, March 12, <font size="4"><tt>at the Sarova Panafric hotel, from 12:00pm - 4:30pm</tt><font size="2">, in Nairobi. The workshop will be about Alliance-building and active policy involvement in the development of national and international policy frameworks...You are kindly </font></font>invited to attend if you are in Nairobi. For more information, please read below.<br>
<br><br>Bonjour tout le monde,<br><br>Notre collegue, Evan Leibovitch, d'At-Large conduit un atelier le Vendredi, 12 Mars, a l'otel Saorva Panafric, de 12:00 PM a 4:30 PM, a Nairobi. Vous y etes cordialement invite si vous etes a Nairobi. La thematique est liee au developpement d'alliance et de poltique active d'implication aux niveaux national et international. Pour plus d'information, lisez ci-dessous.<br>
<br>Fatimata<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Evan Leibovitch</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:evan@telly.org">evan@telly.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:18 PM<br>Subject: more info on my friday workshop<br>To: Fatimata Seye Sylla <<a href="mailto:fsylla@gmail.com">fsylla@gmail.com</a>>, Heidi Ullrich <<a href="mailto:Heidi.Ullrich@icann.org">Heidi.Ullrich@icann.org</a>>, Cheryl Langdon-Orr <<a href="mailto:langdonorr@gmail.com">langdonorr@gmail.com</a>><br>
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> Dear colleague,<br>
><br>
> The Centre for Refugee Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada,<br>
> along with a number of Canadian and international institutions, is
in the<br>
> process of developing a Refugee Research Network with the express
goal of<br>
> contributing to the improvement of the well-being of refugees and
forced<br>
> migrants around the world by:<br>
><br>
> expanding our awareness of the global knowledge regime concerning
refugee<br>
> issues and forced migration<br>
> improving communication concerning this knowledge within and between<br>
> academic, policy-making and practice sectors in the Global South and<br>
> North, and<br>
> alliance-building and active policy involvement in the development
of<br>
> national and international policy frameworks and humanitarian practices<br>
> affecting refugees and forced migrants.<br>
><br>
> For more information about the network, please visit our website at<br>
> <a href="http://www.refugeeresearch.net" target="_blank">www.refugeeresearch.net</a>. This website has been created to encourage
as<br>
> much online collaboration, networking and information-sharing among<br>
> researchers doing work on refugee and forced migration-related issues
as<br>
> possible. We use the term "researcher" quite broadly - it
encompasses<br>
> academics affiliated with universities, colleges and other research<br>
> institutes, field- and community-based researchers, individuals working<br>
> within the I/NGO, grassroots and governmental sectors who produce
various<br>
> kinds of theoretical and/or policy relevant and practice-based research.<br>
> We are currently collaborating with 8 international research centres,
and<br>
> 4 international voluntary sector organizations, including the UNHCR,
along<br>
> with a host of Canadian and international researchers, NGO networks
and<br>
> various departments within the Government of Canada.<br>
><br>
> One of our staff members will be attending a conference in Nairobi
this<br>
> March, and we thought we might seize the opportunity to outreach to<br>
> interested community agencies, academics and government representatives
in<br>
> and around Nairobi to inform about the network, demonstrate the website<br>
> and consult with different stakeholders on their needs and expectations<br>
> about such a network.<br>
><br>
> If you will be in the Nairobi area on March 12, 2010, we warmly invite<br>
> your participation in this workshop. It will be held at the Sarova<br>
> Panafric hotel, from 12:00pm - 4:30pm. While attendance at the workshop
is<br>
> free, numbers are limited to around 30 people, so we do require you
to<br>
> register. Registration deadline is March 5, 2010. To register, please
fill<br>
> out the online form that can be found here:<br>
> <a href="http://www.yorku.ca/crs/News/Nairobi%20Workshop%20Registration.htm" target="_blank">http://www.yorku.ca/crs/News/Nairobi%20Workshop%20Registration.htm</a><br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Fatimata Seye Sylla<br><br> <br>