Brown, Dijkzeul, Rosier hold workshop on LGBTQI+ and Triple Nexus

On August 22 and 23, Prof. Stephen Brown (University of Ottawa, UA Ruhr Senior Fellow and IFHV Associated Member), Dr. Morgane Rosier (also from the University of Ottawa and (soon) IFHV) and Prof. Dennis Dijkzeul held a workshop on “LGBTQI+ People and the ‘Triple Nexus’ of Development Cooperation, Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding” at the College for Social Sciences and Humanities in Essen.

Scholars and practitioners have been debating how to integrate better the fields of short-term humanitarian aid with longer-term foreign aid/development cooperation for decades, along with, more recently, parallel efforts in conflict resolution and peacebuilding, often known as the “triple nexus”. Simultaneously, scholarship and practice in each of those three areas have begun to address the particular needs and rights of LGBTQI+ people, whose marginalization and exclusion have been well documented. However, until now these debates have never been brought together. At this workshop 17 international scholars and practitioners studied LGBTQI+ issues and the triple nexus. They discussed the state-of-the-art for each of the three nexus components, implementation issues, and current research gaps. The participants decided to hold a follow-up workshop a year from now