Awarded to Professor Wenona Giles
Date: 2004

This three-year project, "The Globalization of Homelessness in Long Term Refugee Camps", builds on extensive scholarship and experience in conflict zones and the refugee camps they spawn.

It aims to detect patterns among camps that have existed for a decade or more to determine why such chronic conditions persist. We aim to generate concrete findings that will assist in answering the following questions:

• Where such camps persist, what is currently being done to create permanent solutions for refugees, if anything? What is the role of UN agencies in this process? Aid agencies? NGOs?
  
  
• Where such camps persist, what are the human development indicators (socioeconomic status, infant mortality, life expectancy, etc.) for the camp populations? How, if at all, do they differ from those of refugees’ country of origin? How, if at all, do they differ from those of the country of asylum in which they find themselves? How do these measure up in relation to the Millenium Development Goals for all poor countries, developed by the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) and now being implemented by the UN as benchmarks for human development?
  
  
• How can the concept of human security, extending a feminist analysis, be improved or revised in light of our findings above?