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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...
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...
Glenna Gordon is a documentary photographer and photojournalist. She's been commissioned by the New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, The...
The cruel irony of climate change is that it disproportionately impacts those who have contributed least to global warming—the world’s poore...
Although cross-border displacement affects local communities, international efforts to address it typically take place at the highest levels...
As climate change causes rapid and large-scale migration, countries already facing environmental challenges become increasingly vulnerable t...
An estimated 26 million people a year were internally displaced by disasters and hazards between 2008 and 2015. These numbers will just get...
Throughout our series on refugee resettlement, we’ve referenced Canada’s system of private sponsorship as an overall success - but how does...
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...
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...
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...
In October 2015, US airstrikes destroyed a trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, operated by Médecins Sans Frontières. 42 people were kill...
Radhya Almutawakel started human rights work in 2004; as she criticized the unfolding war in Yemen in a local newspaper, families of those w...
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...
Yemen. Afghanistan. U.S.-Chinese tensions. The International Crisis Group (ICG) ranks these conflicts as the top three to watch in 2019. To...
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...
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 talks to Ravi and Grant about her new book, ‘Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good.’ Her career spans...
Ravi talks to David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee - and a long-time friend and colleague - during a spec...
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...
The Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration operates with a 3 million dollar budget, and combines aid with diplomacy. Anne Richard serv...
Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a sharp reduction in the number of refugees the U.S. would take in over the next year: 3...
Stefan Dercon is professor of economic policy at the University of Oxford, and is the former chief economist at the Department for Internati...
Almost a quarter of the world’s population now live in some form of fragility, and we talk often about fragile states and fragile contexts -...
This episode looks at how humanitarian response works - the rules of the game, the players, their incentives - and how these elements impact...
"When people look back on our time they will wonder why we tolerated refugee camps for so long.” Owen Barder, Vice President at the Center f...
In this episode, we speak to Alix Zwane who is the CEO of the Global Innovation Fund – an organization that invests in generating and growin...
Education in low- and middle-income countries is becoming increasingly private: as many as one in four young Africans could be enrolled in s...
David Halpern is the Chief Executive Officer of the Behavioural Insights Team in the UK - unofficially known as the ‘Nudge Unit'. In this ep...
No conversation about social impact is complete without an understanding of randomized control trials, or RCTs. In this episode, we delve in...
Geoff Mulgan, head of the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) talks about what he calls ‘Collective Intelli...
Chris Elias is the president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Development Program, which spends $4 billion a year on health a...
Jan Egeland is one of the world’s most experienced peace negotiators, having worked on the Israeli-Palestinian Oslo Peace Accords, as well a...
This episode is a taping from a live recording at Devex World in Washington DC, where Grant and Ravi talked to Kanika Bahl, CEO of Evidence...
As a social entrepreneur and founder of Girls Who Code, Reshma Saujani is uniquely placed to talk about innovation - and the role of failure...
Wilmot Collins is mayor of Helena, Montana, and in this episode, he tells Ravi and Grant about his journey from Liberia, and the harrowing s...
Bob Kitchen spends every day makings decisions on if - and how - to respond to rapid onset humanitarian emergencies globally. As the Interna...
The war in Afghanistan is the longest war in U.S. history and it has cost roughly 1 trillion dollars, left over 170,000 dead, and displaced...
“It’s not about a technology that we’re looking for something to do with, it’s about a problem that we’re trying to solve and and then think...
Dr. Helene Gayle has unparalleled experience in leading organizations that respond to crisis. Dr. Gayle spent over 20 years working on HIV/A...
Over half of the 65 million people displaced right now are children, yet only 2% of total humanitarian spend is allocated to education durin...
Mandy Patinkin (Saul Berenson for Homeland fans) talks to Ravi and Grant about why he works with the IRC to lend his voice to refugees. Mand...
The definition of a refugee - and how we think about the entire refugee system - needs to be changed, says Alex Aleinikoff, who was UN Deput...
John Prendergast founded the Enough Project, which has worked with the likes of George Clooney and Ryan Gosling, to bring attention to compl...
Stephen Hickey has a unique perspective: he was sent to Syria in 2010, as the UK's deputy ambassador to Damascus back when it was thought of...
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright reflects on her experience as a refugee and how it has shaped her views on America's role in th...
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