Podcasts by Displaced
The world is facing the largest displacement crisis since WWII as a number of humanitarian emergencies rage on. Grant Gordon and Ravi Gurumurthy from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) have in-depth conversations with leading humanitarians, foreign policymakers, and innovators to understand how they think about, and tackle these global crises. Produced by the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Complicating Narratives with Documentary Photographer Glenna Gordon from 2019-04-16T10:00
Glenna Gordon is a documentary photographer and photojournalist. She's been commissioned by the New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and other outlets. She’s photographe...
ListenClimate Change: Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson on Climate Justice from 2019-04-09T10:00
The cruel irony of climate change is that it disproportionately impacts those who have contributed least to global warming—the world’s poorest and most marginalized groups. For Mary Robinson—forme...
ListenClimate Change: How Local Communities Can Build Resilience to Climate Change from 2019-04-02T10:00
Although cross-border displacement affects local communities, international efforts to address it typically take place at the highest levels. How can affected communities make their voices heard in...
ListenClimate Change: How Global Warming Exacerbates Conflict from 2019-03-26T10:00
As climate change causes rapid and large-scale migration, countries already facing environmental challenges become increasingly vulnerable to instability and humanitarian crisis. Sherri Goodman, Se...
ListenClimate Change Displacement is Happening Now from 2019-03-19T10:00
An estimated 26 million people a year were internally displaced by disasters and hazards between 2008 and 2015. These numbers will just get worse as climate change exacerbates the effects of natura...
ListenRefugee Resettlement: Minister Ahmed Hussen Explains the Canadian Model from 2019-03-12T10:00
Throughout our series on refugee resettlement, we’ve referenced Canada’s system of private sponsorship as an overall success - but how does it actually work? And what can other countries learn from...
ListenRefugee Resettlement: Perspectives from an IRC Caseworker from 2019-03-05T11:00
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 caseworker for the International Rescue Committee in Boise,...
ListenRefugee Resettlement: A Conversation with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from 2019-02-26T11:00
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 a teenager, and since then has watched the topic of reset...
ListenRefugee Resettlement: Using Data to Improve the System from 2019-02-19T11:00
Imagine a world where every refugee who needs to be resettled receives that opportunity. What would it take? Today there are 1.4 million refugees who have no chance of returning to their homes or ...
ListenThe Future of War: When Civilians Are Targeted in Conflict from 2019-02-12T11:00
In October 2015, US airstrikes destroyed a trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, operated by Médecins Sans Frontières. 42 people were killed. Following the attack, MSF International President Dr....
ListenThe Future of War: Documenting Human Rights Violations in Yemen from 2019-02-05T11:00
Radhya Almutawakel started human rights work in 2004; as she criticized the unfolding war in Yemen in a local newspaper, families of those who had been detained reached out to her for help. Now, Ra...
ListenThe Future of War: Autonomous Weapons, AI, and Cyberwarfare from 2019-01-29T11:00
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 humanitarians. Both Loren and Erin have years of experien...
ListenThe Future of War: Robert Malley on the Three Conflicts to Watch This Year from 2019-01-22T11:00
Yemen. Afghanistan. U.S.-Chinese tensions. The International Crisis Group (ICG) ranks these conflicts as the top three to watch in 2019. To kickoff season two of Displaced, Robert Malley, president...
ListenAnnouncing Season Two of Displaced from 2019-01-21T13:00
At Displaced we examine the causes and consequences of the global refugee crisis. And this season, we're going even deeper. Each of our episodes will focus on one of the three top issues humanitari...
ListenViet Thanh Nguyen on trauma, displacement, and identifying as a refugee from 2018-10-30T10:00
Pulitzer prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen is the guest on this episode of Displaced, and talks to Grant and Ravi about his background, and the traumatic experience of being separated from his...
ListenAnn Mei Chang’s innovation playbook for the development sector from 2018-10-23T10:00
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 both the private and public sector: she led USAID’s firs...
ListenDavid Miliband on politics, populism and the global refugee crisis from 2018-10-16T10:00
Ravi talks to David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee - and a long-time friend and colleague - during a special event recorded with a live audience at the New School...
ListenPatrick Fine explains integrated development from 2018-10-09T10:00
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 factors - a whole set of interrelated causes and contexts, ...
ListenAnne Richard on 'humanitarian diplomacy' and dealing with anti-refugee sentiment from 2018-10-02T10:00
The Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration operates with a 3 million dollar budget, and combines aid with diplomacy. Anne Richard served as the former Assistant Secretary of State for PRM fro...
ListenNazanin Ash: The Trump administration is tearing apart U.S. refugee policy from 2018-09-25T10:00
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: 30,000. Grant and Ravi talk to IRC colleague Nazanin Ash f...
ListenStefan Dercon: how insurance could make humanitarian response faster and cheaper from 2018-09-18T10:00
Stefan Dercon is professor of economic policy at the University of Oxford, and is the former chief economist at the Department for International Development (DFID) in the UK, where he was involved ...
ListenNancy Lindborg on what 'fragility' actually means from 2018-09-11T10:00
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 - but what does the term mean? Nancy Lindborg is the presi...
ListenJeremy Konyndyk on the humanitarian business model from 2018-09-04T10:00
This episode looks at how humanitarian response works - the rules of the game, the players, their incentives - and how these elements impact lives of displaced people. Jeremy Konydyk calls this the...
ListenOwen Barder: we need an alternative to refugee camps from 2018-08-28T10:00
"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 for Global Development, talks in this episode about why we...
ListenAlix Zwane on what philanthropists can learn from venture capitalists from 2018-08-21T10:00
In this episode, we speak to Alix Zwane who is the CEO of the Global Innovation Fund – an organization that invests in generating and growing products and services that help people on less than $5 ...
ListenPaul Skidmore on the radical transformation to education in fragile states from 2018-08-14T10:00
Education in low- and middle-income countries is becoming increasingly private: as many as one in four young Africans could be enrolled in some form of private education by 2021. Paul Skidmore is C...
ListenDavid Halpern on revolutionizing policy through behavioral science from 2018-08-07T10:00
David Halpern is the Chief Executive Officer of the Behavioural Insights Team in the UK - unofficially known as the ‘Nudge Unit'. In this episode, we dive into how behavioral science works to chang...
ListenRachel Glennerster’s insights on the randomization movement from 2018-07-31T10:00
No conversation about social impact is complete without an understanding of randomized control trials, or RCTs. In this episode, we delve into what they are and how they measure impact with Rachel ...
ListenGeoff Mulgan on how collaboration between humans and machines can help solve the world’s biggest problems from 2018-07-24T10:00
Geoff Mulgan, head of the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) talks about what he calls ‘Collective Intelligence’: how machines and humans can collaborate to solve ...
ListenChris Elias on the radical progress we’ve made in global health from 2018-07-17T10:00
Chris Elias is the president of the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Development Program, which spends $4 billion a year on health and poverty programs. With great power comes great responsib...
ListenJan Egeland on how to broker the world’s most challenging peace agreements from 2018-07-10T10:00
Jan Egeland is one of the world’s most experienced peace negotiators, having worked on the Israeli-Palestinian Oslo Peace Accords, as well as mediation efforts in South Sudan, Uganda, Guatemala, an...
ListenKanika Bahl pulls back the curtain on innovation in aid from 2018-07-03T10:00
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 Action. 'This interview gets into the nuts and bolts of h...
ListenReshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, on innovation and failure from 2018-06-26T10:00
As a social entrepreneur and founder of Girls Who Code, Reshma Saujani is uniquely placed to talk about innovation - and the role of failure in that process. She talks to Ravi and Grant about creat...
ListenWilmot Collins on being a refugee mayor in a pro-Trump state from 2018-06-19T10:00
Wilmot Collins is mayor of Helena, Montana, and in this episode, he tells Ravi and Grant about his journey from Liberia, and the harrowing story of how he left the country. He went on to resettle i...
ListenBob Kitchen on how to respond to humanitarian emergencies from 2018-06-12T10:00
Bob Kitchen spends every day makings decisions on if - and how - to respond to rapid onset humanitarian emergencies globally. As the International Rescue Committee’s Director of Emergency Preparedn...
ListenVali Nasr on how wars end from 2018-06-05T10:00
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 another 4 million people. In this episode, we examine how...
ListenCarolyn Miles: innovative solutions for improving the lives of children from 2018-05-29T10:00
“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 thinking about how technology helps with it.” Carolyn Miles is...
ListenHelene Gayle on how to lead organizations that respond to crisis from 2018-05-22T10:00
Dr. Helene Gayle has unparalleled experience in leading organizations that respond to crisis. Dr. Gayle spent over 20 years working on HIV/AIDS at the Center for Disease Control while also serving ...
ListenThe IRC’s Sarah Smith on educating children during humanitarian crises from 2018-05-15T10:00
Over half of the 65 million people displaced right now are children, yet only 2% of total humanitarian spend is allocated to education during crises. Given that refugees are displaced for over 12 y...
ListenMandy Patinkin: From 'Homeland’ actor to refugee advocate from 2018-05-08T10:00
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. Mandy reflects on his travels to various refugee camps and ta...
ListenJohn Prendergast: The Enough Project, South Sudan - and working with George Clooney from 2018-04-24T10:00
John Prendergast founded the Enough Project, which has worked with the likes of George Clooney and Ryan Gosling, to bring attention to complex humanitarian crises in Africa. In this episode, he tal...
ListenStephen Hickey on witnessing the unfolding Syria crisis from 2018-04-17T10:00
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 as a "sleepy posting." The Assad regime kicked him out o...
ListenMadeleine Albright on the global refugee crisis from 2018-04-10T10:00
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 the refugee crisis (or lack thereof). In this interview, Ra...
ListenDisplaced: a weekly exploration of the most innovative solutions to humanitarian crises around the world from 2018-04-04T11:02:23
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