This is the first of two International Public Seminar's in collaboration with the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, Canada on 'Armed Conflict, Generalised Violence and Asylum Law'. It examines how new approaches are developing to the issue of ‘war refugees’ at the fringes of asylum law. Some maintain that existing international refugee law is amenable to interpretations that will provide protection to refugee from war and other generalized violence. Others, however, look for inspiration or concrete developments in related fields of international law relating to human rights, armed conflict and serious international crimes. This session aims to provide a unique public forum for presenting and debating these global refugee law issues.
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