What it Takes to Succeed After Displacement
In 1942, nine year-old Krishnan Gurumurthy fled to India from Burma with his family. It was just after the Japanese invasion, and they had j...
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Horrific bombings in Syria. Civil war and malnutrition in Yemen. Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar. These humanitarian crises make for desperate headlines. But what’s the story before the a...
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20 of 46 episodesComplicating Narratives with Documentary Photographer Glenna Gordon
Glenna Gordon is a documentary photographer and photojournalist. She's been commissioned by the New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, The...
Climate Change: Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson on Climate Justice
The cruel irony of climate change is that it disproportionately impacts those who have contributed least to global warming—the world’s poore...
Climate Change: How Local Communities Can Build Resilience to Climate Change
Although cross-border displacement affects local communities, international efforts to address it typically take place at the highest levels...
Climate Change: How Global Warming Exacerbates Conflict
As climate change causes rapid and large-scale migration, countries already facing environmental challenges become increasingly vulnerable t...
Climate Change Displacement is Happening Now
An estimated 26 million people a year were internally displaced by disasters and hazards between 2008 and 2015. These numbers will just get...
Refugee Resettlement: Minister Ahmed Hussen Explains the Canadian Model
Throughout our series on refugee resettlement, we’ve referenced Canada’s system of private sponsorship as an overall success - but how does...
Refugee Resettlement: Perspectives from an IRC Caseworker
This week in our series on refugee resettlement, we take a closer look at the process of resettlement in the U.S. with Dauda Balubwila, a ca...
Refugee Resettlement: A Conversation with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
In January 2019, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar became the first ever Somali-American member of Congress. Rep. Omar was resettled in the U.S. as...
Refugee Resettlement: Using Data to Improve the System
Imagine a world where every refugee who needs to be resettled receives that opportunity. What would it take? Today there are 1.4 million ref...
The Future of War: When Civilians Are Targeted in Conflict
In October 2015, US airstrikes destroyed a trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, operated by Médecins Sans Frontières. 42 people were kill...
The Future of War: Documenting Human Rights Violations in Yemen
Radhya Almutawakel started human rights work in 2004; as she criticized the unfolding war in Yemen in a local newspaper, families of those w...
The Future of War: Autonomous Weapons, AI, and Cyberwarfare
This week, Ravi and Grant turn to Loren DeJonge Schulman and Erin Simpson to discuss how technology is changing war and what that means for...
The Future of War: Robert Malley on the Three Conflicts to Watch This Year
Yemen. Afghanistan. U.S.-Chinese tensions. The International Crisis Group (ICG) ranks these conflicts as the top three to watch in 2019. To...
Announcing Season Two of Displaced
At Displaced we examine the causes and consequences of the global refugee crisis. And this season, we're going even deeper. Each of our epis...
Viet Thanh Nguyen on trauma, displacement, and identifying as a refugee
Pulitzer prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen is the guest on this episode of Displaced, and talks to Grant and Ravi about his background,...
Ann Mei Chang’s innovation playbook for the development sector
Ann Mei Chang talks to Ravi and Grant about her new book, ‘Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good.’ Her career spans...
David Miliband on politics, populism and the global refugee crisis
Ravi talks to David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee - and a long-time friend and colleague - during a spec...
Patrick Fine explains integrated development
In order to solve any given problem, an understanding of its root cause is the first step. But when those roots are tangled up with other fa...
Anne Richard on 'humanitarian diplomacy' and dealing with anti-refugee sentiment
The Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration operates with a 3 million dollar budget, and combines aid with diplomacy. Anne Richard serv...