NBC News on Sesame Workshop's Muppets For Rohingya Refugee Children
Media Coverage
January 05, 2021

NBC News reported from Sesame Street and from the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh on IPA's work with Sesame Workshop. Researchers helped develop two new muppets to speak to Rohingya refugee children and facilitate early childhood development efforts in the camp. Watch the story, which aired on the Today Show below, or read the text version from the button at the bottom.
Variety on the Development of Sesame Workshop's New Rohingya Muppets
Media Coverage
January 05, 2021

Variety covers IPA's work with Sesame Workshop designing Rohingya muppets to help refugee children with their cognitive and emotional development, with a focus on skills to respond to trauma.
Peru's La República on Cash Assistance to Cope with COVID-19
Media Coverage
January 05, 2021

La República covers the impact of an IPA-valued VAT cash assistance program on building household financial resilience during the pandemic.
New York Times on Developing Rohingya Muppets With Sesame Workshop in Bangladesh
Media Coverage
December 28, 2020

The New York Times reports on IPA's work with Sesame Workshop in Bangaldesh, creating Noor and Aziz, two new Rohingya muppets designed around the needs of children in the world's largest refugee camp.
Uganda's New Vision on Launch of PlayMatters Initiative
Media Coverage
November 30, 2020

Uganda's New Vision covers a recent community launch of the PlayMatters initiative which aims to strengthen the mental, physical, and emotional skills and well-being of refugee and host community children, to bolster their development and ability to cope with trauma. The local launch on November 20, held in the Adjumani refugee settlement, followed a national launch at Uganda's State House in October. 

PlayMatters is funded by the LEGO Foundation and implemented by a consortium led by the International Rescue Committee, in partnership with Plan International, War Child Holland, the...
Social Science Space Podcast Interviews Researcher Salma Mousa on Iraq Social Cohesion Study
Media Coverage
November 13, 2020

The Social Science Space podcast interviews Salma Mousa, who combinined her interests in sports and contact theory in a study of interfaith soccer teams in northern Iraq. Mousa explains what the results may teach us about improving relationships between social groups, even in post-war settings.
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Pushing the Boundaries of Governance, Crime, and Conflict Research: Innovations in Research, Measurement, and Design
November 05, 2020

By David Alzate, Aprille Knox, Nessa Kenny, and Alison Fahey

Over the past four decades, the share of the global population living in extreme poverty has fallen substantially. But progress remains uneven. Countries facing political instability, conflict, and violence have experienced increasing rates of poverty during this same period. By the year 2030, roughly two-thirds of the world’s poor are expected to be living in fragile settings. The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to push an additional 150 million people into extreme poverty by 2021. 

With these challenges in mind, in...
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COVID-19 and Forced Displacement in the Global South
Mushfiq Mobarak
November 03, 2020

 

By Sarah Stillman

Editor's note: This post originally appeared on the University of California, Berkeley news site as well as CEGA's blog site.

As the COVID-19 pandemic persists around the globe, refugees and others uprooted from their homes—due to conflict, economic hardship, climate change, and other pressures—must combat the dual hardships of disease and displacement. Already among the world’s most vulnerable, displaced people often have experienced violence and trauma, have limited access to services, and are homeless, with nowhere to safely isolate from the virus...
Science Podcast Interviews Researcher Salma Mousa on Iraq Social Cohesion Study
Media Coverage
August 31, 2020

Following coverage in a recent press release Science’s podcast interviews Salma Mousa on her work evaluating interfaith soccer teams to build tolerance in post-conflict Iraq. (Note: interview starts at 15:10). The study was also featured in Nature, Science News, Psychology Today, National Geographic (Spanish), NRC (Dutch), Trouw (Dutch), and Deutschland Funk (German).
New Study: In Iraq, Mixed-Religion Soccer Teams Helped Build Social Cohesion, Healed Wounds after War
Press Release
August 14, 2020

A new study, released today in Science, points to a way to help repair social ties and promote coexistence after war. The study found that in post-ISIS Iraq, mixing Christians and Muslims on soccer teams made Christian players more tolerant toward Muslims in their league, though the sentiments did not extend to Muslims in the broader community. The findings suggest that meaningful social contact can build community-level social cohesion with peers and acquaintances after war. 

The researcher, Salma Mousa, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford’s Immigration Policy Lab and Center for...
Interview with Dean Yang on Social Distancing Research in Mozambique
Media Coverage
July 28, 2020

The University of Michigan interviews researcher Dean Yang on his work on a survey of Mozambique households on social distancing norms supported by IPA and aimed at promoting public health safe practices to combat COVID-19.
La Silla Vacía on COVID-19 and Unemployment in Colombia
Media Coverage
July 27, 2020

Colombia's La Silla Vacía interviews IPA Peace & Recovery Director Sebastian Chaskel on the economic impact of COVID-19. Chaskel shares results from the RECOVR survey in Colombia. The podcast also features several first-person accounts of unemployment in the country. To learn more about the survey results, see our blog post here.

Note: Podcast in Spanish.
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Supporting the Most Vulnerable Amid the Risk of Returning to Poverty: What the RECOVR Survey Tells Us about Pandemic Response in Colombia
July 08, 2020

By swiftly enacting a national lockdown and sticking with it until a slow and partial reopening in June, Colombia has so far been spared the high COVID-19 infection rate and the related death toll of some of its neighbors like Brazil and Peru. While the restrictions to movement and gatherings protected the health system and saved lives, the economic impact of these restrictions has been felt across Colombian households. One in four Colombian workers (roughly 5.5 million people) lost their job in April, with women and those under the age of 30 among the hardest hit, and by May the...
The Economist Cites Findings on COVID-19 in Rohingya Refugee Camps
Media Coverage
June 29, 2020

In a piece discussing COVID-19 and the risks of violent conflict, The Economist cites IPA research with Mushfiq Mobarak, C. Austin Davis, and Paula Lopez Peña in the Cox's Bazar region of Bangladesh, which found that COVID-19 symptoms were prevalent among Rohingya refugees. More information about the study is available here. 
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Filling the Forced Displacement Evidence Gap: Taking Stock on World Refugee Day
June 18, 2020

By Nessa Kenny and Laura Benrey

Photo: Sebastian Chaskel


Over 70 million people are forcibly displaced as a result of conflict, persecution, or violence—more than ever before in history. Displaced communities, who were already vulnerable before the pandemic hit, are particularly at risk now: they fall outside of traditional social safety nets, many live off of earnings made or food purchased that day, and many live in densely populated refugee camps where social distancing and handwashing are difficult, if not impossible. Last month, for example, our Cox’s Bazar Panel...

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