Tag Archives: Global

UN Global Compacts: Governing Migrants and Refugees: Dr. Nicholas R. Micinski

This talk will explore the key findings from my recent book, UN Global Compacts: Governing Migrants and Refugees (Routledge, 2021), in which I present a comprehensive analysis of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, the Global Compact on Refugees, and the Global Compact for Migration. The declaration and compacts were significant achievements in […]

Global Governance Author Panel: Migration, Refugees, and UNHCR

“Migration, Refugees, and UNHCR” is a dialogue on refugee and migration policy in the context of UNHCR’s 70th anniversary hosted by the David M. Kennedy Center at Brigham Young University. Panelists Dr. Erika Feller, Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at The University of Melbourne, Former Assistant High Commissioner of UNHCR and author of “UNHCR at 70: A […]

Buddhist Global Relief

We’ll take a look at the aid organization Buddhist Global Relief (BGR) as an example of a place we might consider practicing generosity. First we’ll consider the benefits of generosity generally, and then after considering BGR in particular we’ll also consider a couple of ways religious aid organizations may be problematic. We’ll see that BGR […]