Sometimes you just need creative inspiration and the universe just… delivers. Paul Simon, Andrew Bird + Chris Thile and the Punch Brothers, via A Praire Home Companion — Also: the obligatory Hamilton reference: LMM on your twenties + immigrants; Rudy Francisco, Love Poem
Read More On storytellingTa-Nehisi Cotes on the distance between what’s in your mind and what ends up on the paper is hitting close to home these days —
Read More On creative breakthroughs and perseveranceHeld on 5 February, the Foreign Policy program at Brookings hosted the American Academy in Berlin for the 2016 Richard C. Holbrooke Forum focusing on the global refugee crisis. I finally got around to watching the interesting exchange between Leon Wieseltier, Michael Ignatieff, and Martin Indyk. Worth watching for Wieseltier’s brief discussion about emergency; of his current research on […]
Read More On emergencyAdd this to the list of things I want to be when I grow up — an enthusiast.
Read More On enthusiasmAn excellent, if unsettling, snapshot of the current process of resettlement to the US: Eliza Griswold’s Why is it so difficult for Syrian refugees to get into the US? in the NYT Magazine. Relatedly, Intelligence Squared US just held a debate: “The US Should Let in 100,000 Syrian Refugees” — 22.02.2016 update: The US Promised […]
Read More On getting to the USCarleton University hosted the Power and Influence in the Global Refugee Regime workshop 23-25 September 2015. From the event page, This workshop brings together a prominent group of scholars, practitioners and policy-makers to discuss the ability of different actors to influence outcomes within the global refugee regime.
Read More On workshops: Power and Influence in the Global Refugee Regime @ CarletonMaybe because it’s Saturday, or maybe because there’s been a ton of unpleasant news lately — here’s something wonderful: (see also: puppies.)
Read More On …JennyEmanuel Stoakes in Foreign Policy’s Dispatch blog discusses testimonies and documentary evidence shown in the new Al Jazeera documentary, “Genocide Agenda” that purports to link the Myanmar government to anti-Muslim incitement. The film points to a multi-pronged strategy by the government to encourage anti-Muslim hatred across the country, while pursuing policies against the Rohingya that legal […]
Read More On push factorsJohn Oliver over at Last Week Tonight addressed migrants and refugees,
Read More On lazy migrants?Posted originally via the Global Refugee Policy Network, Jeff Crisp and Phil Orchard briefly talk about the existence of global refugee policy and its potential importance —
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Amanda Cellini 