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

22 October 2024

CENDEP’s Zoe Jordan gets ESRC funding to study the impact of the amphetamine Captagon on refugees

This ESRC Responsive Mode research project investigates the supply and use of Captagon in Jordan among refugee and socio-economically marginalised communities.

Zoe Jordan gets ESRC funding

08 October 2024

New article on decoloniality and justice

A new article by CENDEP's Dr Farah Mihlar, published in the 'Journal of Human Rights Practice', argues on the need include decolonial thinking in the field of transitional justice. 

Journal of Human Rights Practice logo

08 October 2024

CENDEP launches wellbeing and mental health in crisis course

CENDEP launched its online continued professional development (CPD) certificate course ‘Resilience, wellbeing and mental health support in crisis settings’ on 1 October 2024.

Students working with local people

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.

Journal of Human rights logo

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.

People holding signs at a protest

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