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SUMMARY:From Borders to Borderlands: Lessons learnt from the Danish Demini
 ng Group Border Security Management experience in East Africa\, Sahel and 
 North Africa - Natasha Leite (Danish Refugee Council)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190430T130000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190430T143000
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DESCRIPTION:Borderlands are often the space where the nexus between econom
 ic development\, conflict\, crime\, politics and identity are at its most 
 dynamic. Breaking the State-centric nature in which most organisations and
  country-structures operate\, borderlands provide a significant challenge 
 for engagement that has yet to be address in a meaningful way.  As agenci
 es\, organisations\, donors have and still struggle with the complexities 
 of borderlands beyond securitised approaches\, this presentation will hope
 fully shed a few learnings from DDG’s decade of borderlands work in prot
 racted conflict zones and share how\, practically\, we were able to move f
 rom a “border” to a “borderlands” lens.  This will be drawn from 
 DDG’s work in the Uganda-Kenya-Somalia (Karamoja cluster and Mandera tri
 angle)\; the Sahel (Liptako Gouma region) and the Tunisia-Libya border (Be
 n Guerdane\, Dehiba\, Zuwara\, Nalut\, and Wazin). \n\nDDG’s approach to
  promoting stability and development in borderlands areas\, like DDG’s o
 verall approach is community-driven and protection-focused. It is importan
 t to acknowledge that in protracted conflict contexts\, the central govern
 ment and the Borderlanders tend to have very different perceptions of “b
 orders”\, their lived and historical experience. Furthermore\, national 
 governments usually lack the capacity and resources to effectively put in 
 place mechanisms to facilitate cross-border and regional coordination to a
 ddress security threats and promote holistic development. In these context
 s particularly\, there is an important space for external actors to promot
 e local voices and solutions as well as to allow governments to better res
 pond to communities’ needs.  \n\nThis presentation will focus on the ma
 in challenges for practitioners working in borderlands\; main achievements
 /solutions during this last ten years in the three regions mentioned and f
 inally\, key lessons learnt and recommendations for future work.\n\nAbout 
 the speaker: As the regional technical lead for Security and Governance in
  East Africa and the Great Lakes for the Danish Refugee Council/Danish Dem
 ining Group\, Natasha Leite guides and expands impact oriented programming
 . She provides technical guidance and support to country level project tea
 ms in violence reduction interventions and framework. Natasha Leite is a p
 eacebuilding and rule of law professional offering a proven track record o
 f fourteen years delivering results in Latin America\, the Caribbean\, Sub
 -Saharan Africa and the Pacific.\n\nA sandwich lunch will be served at 12.
 40\nSpeakers:\nNatasha Leite (Danish Refugee Council)
LOCATION:Manor Road Building (Seminar Room G\, Department of Politics and 
 International Relations)\, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/101df286-0175-4e3d-a021-58acee5eb543/
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