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SUMMARY:Applying Behavioral Science in Programming to Address Xenophobia & Promote  Social Cohesion
DESCRIPTION:Background \nGlobally\, as well as in the Southern Africa region\, a recent rise in anti-migrant attitudes\, including an increase in violent acts against migrants\, has drawn increasing attention from political actors as well as civil society. While many initiatives to promote social cohesion have been implemented over the years\, there is a dearth of research or evidence to understand the impact of such activities. Are media campaigns effective? If so\, with which types of audience and what types of messaging have the greatest impact? Can integrating migrants into sports leagues and cultural events help reduce anxiety and promote a more positive image of migrants among the host community? \nRecent advances in brain and behavioral science (BBS) are now providing policymakers and practitioners with new tools to design\, implement and measure more impactful social cohesion and peacebuilding programs to reduce xenophobia and violent conflict\, and promote cooperation across various social divides. \nIn this webinar\, the International Organization for Migration (IOM)\, the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS)\, Prof. Linda Tropp of the University of Massachusetts – Amherst\, and Beyond Conflict (a USbased NGO with over 30 years of experience collaborating with local actors and behavioral scientists in building social cohesion and preventing violence)\, will discuss global examples of initiatives aimed at addressing xenophobia and promoting social cohesion\, introduce new models and approaches to designing and measuring interventions\, and engage with participants on the specific context\, realities\, and initiatives in Southern Africa. \nDate: 9th March 2022  \nVenue:  \nOnline Time: 3:00-5:15pm ( South Africa time)  \nRegister here \n  \nAgenda  \nMarch 9th from 15:00 to 17:15 (SAST) \n15:00-15:10: Introduction to Webinar \n15:10-15:20:  Promoting social cohesion\, migrant integration\, and countering violence in South Africa within the framework of the Migration Multi Partner Trust Fund Programme (MPTF) \n15:20-15:30: Combatting xenophobia and promoting social cohesion in the South African Context (ACMS) \n15:30-15:40: Discussion \n15:40-15:55: Introduction to Brain and Behavioral Science for Social Cohesion – How does science help us think differently about how attitudes and beliefs are formed\, and decisions and actions are made? How does the brain operate in situations of conflict\, xenophobia\, insecurity and prejudice\, and why does that matter for social cohesion programs? \n15:55-16:05: Discussion \n16:05-16:20: Social Contact: Limitations and Opportunities – What is Social Contact Theory and what do we know about whether\, how and under what conditions social contact-based programs produce gains in social cohesion? What do we still need to learn? What innovations are we most excited about trying out? \n16:20-16:30: Discussion \n16:30-16:45: How We Engage: A Methodology for Science-Informed Design – What process do we use to better understand the gaps in a given program’s effectiveness and create tailored solutions to address them? How do we make sure these solutions are cost-effective and influential outside just one specific context? What roles and responsibilities do all parties have in that process? \n16:45-16:55: Discussion \n16:55-17:05: IOM’s Diversity\, Inclusion & Social Cohesion (DISC) Initiative – Global Approach to Addressing Xenophobia and Promoting Inclusion \n17:05-17:15: Conclusions / Wrap Up
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/applying-behavioral-science-in-programming-to-address-xenophobia-promote-social-cohesion/
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SUMMARY:Call for Papers & Panels: African Queer & Trans Displacements
DESCRIPTION:African Queer & Trans Displacements is a two-day conference bringing together scholars\, policymakers\, practitioners\, advocates and activists working on the forced or voluntary migration of lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, transgender\, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) Africans. The intersection of sexuality\, gender and displacement remains understudied\, especially in Global South contexts\, despite the fact that the vast majority of the world’s queer migrants\, refugees and asylum seekers live in these countries. At the same time\, the social\, legal\, political and economic needs of LGBTQI+ migrants\, refugees and asylum seekers remain overlooked by both queer rights movements and migrant/refugee rights movements\, resulting in inadequate support services and poorly developed policies. This conference aims to foster dialogue across these divides\, while also providing space to engage with migration scholarship centred on Africa and its peoples. \nExisting scholarship tends to elide the cultural\, linguistic and social differences of LGBTQI+ individuals seeking asylum\, homogenising disparate experiences and backgrounds under the broad category of ‘queer asylum seeker’. Countries of birth are largely presented as inconsequential\, or as narrative elements rather than critical considerations. This provides little clarity of the specificities of leaving any one place\, and even less of an understanding about the relationship between places left behind and those where asylum is sought. At the same time\, queer and trans Africans in the diaspora are projecting new identity formations and signifying practices back towards the continent. To this end\, this conference recognises that there is no single story of African queer and trans displacement. Rather\, there are specificities of experience that emerge when migration and asylum interact with different political\, discursive\, ideological and ontological formations linked to gender and sexuality. By curating this conference according to its geographical focus\, rather than emphasising thematic or disciplinary links\, we hope to spotlight the lived realities of migration and diaspora as they relate to queer and trans Africans. \nThis is the first conference to focus specifically on the movements of queer and trans Africans. We invite paper abstracts and panel proposals from scholars working in all disciplines\, as well as from policymakers\, practitioners\, activists and others working in this field. Please send 250-word abstracts or 400-word panel proposals to almresearchnet@gmail.com by the 1 May 2022. \nAfrican Queer & Trans Displacements is hosted by the African Centre for Migration & Society (University of the Witwatersrand) and the Centre of African Studies (University of Edinburgh). The conference will be held in person in Johannesburg\, South Africa\, on 1–2 December 2022 (keynote addresses will be live-streamed). \nNo registration fees will apply\, though delegates are responsible for their own transport and accommodation. Three bursaries covering travel and accommodation are available. If applying for a bursary\, please include a one-page motivation letter along with your abstract. \nEnquiries and abstract submissions should be forwarded to almnresearchnet@gmail.com. \nThis conference is generously supported by the British Academy and  the South African National Research Foundation.[higgs_logo width=”360″ border=”true” brd_padd=”pb-padd-30″ image=”8668″]
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/call-for-papers-panels-african-queer-trans-displacements/
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