The Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities (JLI) and International Dialogue Center (KAICIID) are partnering in a joint webinar series.

This webinar will focus on refugees and forced migration with a case study from the Balkans. The JLI Refugee Hub will present on the role of local faith actors and children on the move focusing on key themes in spiritual support, continuum of child protection and building peaceful societies and combating xenophobia. Amanda Rives Argeñal, World Vision International will introduce the recent Faith Action for Children on the Move Conference in Rome proceedings and action plan. This will also be an online launch of the children on the move briefs from the recent Faith Action for Children on the Move Conference in Rome presented by Dr Olivia Wilkinson.

The webinar will also feature a KAICIID Fellow as a guest speaker, Dr. Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović at the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She has many years’ experience of working in in multiethnic, multiconfessional, and multilingual Christian communities in the Balkans. She will present her work and current research focusing on religion, contemporary migration crises and refugees, especially in Serbia.