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This SSHRC-funded collaborative and interdisciplinary project connects scholars and practitioners to explore the diverse meanings and uses of 鈥渓ocalization鈥� in world politics. Outcomes include a special forum of听Global Studies Quarterly, a web-based policy guide to localization, and a podcast series.
Special Forum
Jennifer听Welsh (Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security; Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy, 涩里番), Emily K. M. Scott (Associate Professor, University of Birmingham) and Adam Kochanski (Assistant Professor, University of Guelph) co-edited a special issue of听Global Studies Quarterly听on localization in world politics.
The Special Forum features a co-edited introductory essay by Kochanski, Scott and Welsh, and contributions from leading scholars working on localization in the areas of humanitarianism, forced migration, transitional justice and Women, Peace and Security.
Table of Contents
by Adam Kochanski, Emily K M Scott and Jennifer Welsh
by Lisbeth Zimmermann
by Alex Hinton and Elena Lesley
by Mohamed Sesay
听 by Erin Baines and Ketty Anyeko
听 by Merve Erdilmen, James Milner and Megan Bradley
by Luna K C
by Dima M Toukan
by Oliver Kaplan and Emily Paddon Rhoads
Podcast
Hosts Jennifer听Welsh (Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security; Director of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies, 涩里番), Adam Kochanski (Assistant Professor, University of Guelph), and Emily Scott (Associate Professor, University of Birmingham) are joined by leading scholars and policy practitioners to discuss localization, its history, how it is being studied, and how efforts to "go local" impact real people.
The podcast is avaliable on and . The links can also be found in the drop-down menu here on our website.
Policy Brief
In this CIPSS Occasional Paper, 鈥溾�榃alking the Localization Talk鈥�: A Practitioner鈥檚 Reflections,鈥� Marc Linning (Senior Protection Advisor) examines how one international humanitarian NGO 鈥� the Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) 鈥� has changed its organizational culture in pursuit of a more localized approach. Drawing from several contexts in which CIVIC has worked (including Nigeria, Mali, Kenya, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine and Yemen), the reflections captured in this occasional paper provide food for thought for others working in the field of protection, as well as the wider humanitarian sector, when it comes to operationalizing the key goals of localization.
