# Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP)
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## About us
Founded in 1985, the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) is a multidisciplinary centre that brings together academics, development practitioners and policy makers. Our work concentrates on:
- human rights and forced migration
- inclusive recovery and development
- conflict, humanitarian action and peacebuilding
- shelter, housing and home in crises.
We run a number of courses:
- [Global Development and Humanitarian Practice](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/global-development-and-humanitarian-practice) (MA / PGDip / PGCert)
- [Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/humanitarian-action-and-peacebuilding) (MA / PGCert)
- [Architecture](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/courses/research/architecture) (MPhil / PhD / PhD by Practice / PhD by Published Work / Research Degree involving Creative Work)
We also conduct research with colleagues and partners worldwide.
[Read our blog](https://cendep.blogspot.com)
### Part of
- [School of Architecture](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/structure-and-governance/faculties-and-schools/architecture "School of Architecture")
### Related courses
- [Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding (MA / PGCert)](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/humanitarian-action-and-peacebuilding)
- [Architecture (MPhil / PhD / PhD by Practice / PhD by Published Work / Research Degree involving Creative Work)](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/courses/research/architecture)
- [Global Development and Humanitarian Practice (MA / PGDip / PGCert)](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/global-development-and-humanitarian-practice)
## Study with us
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Course testimonials](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/tde/centres/cendep/testimonials/)
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Field trips](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/tde/centres/cendep/field-trips/)
## Research areas
[Shelter, Housing and Home in Crises](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/tde/groups/shelter-housing-and-home-in-crises "Shelter, Housing and Home in Crises")
[Human rights and forced migration: policy and practice](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/tde/groups/human-rights-and-forced-migration "Human rights and forced migration: policy and practice")
[Inclusive Recovery and Development](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/tde/groups/inclusive-recovery-and-development "Inclusive Recovery and Development")
[Conflict, humanitarian action and peacebuilding](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/tde/groups/conflict-humanitarian-action-and-peacebuilding "Conflict, humanitarian action and peacebuilding")
## News
### 06 March 2026
#### [Oxford Human Rights Festival returns for its 24th year with the theme “Breaking Free”](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/news/news-from-2026/03/oxford-human-rights-festival-returns-for-its-24th)
A week of free public events will take place across Oxford this month, including at Oxford Brookes University, as the Oxford Human Rights Festival returns for its 24th year.
### 06 March 2025
#### [Explore ‘The Power of the People’ at the 2025 Oxford Human Rights Festival](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/news/news-from-2025/03/explore-the-power-of-the-people-at-the-2025-oxford)
The Oxford Human Rights Festival 2025, hosted by Oxford Brookes University, will explore justice, culture, and activism through thought-provoking events, workshops, and exhibitions.
### 22 October 2024
#### [CENDEP’s Zoe Jordan gets ESRC funding to study the impact of the amphetamine Captagon on refugees](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/tde/centres/cendep/news/2024/10/cendeps-zoe-jordan-gets-esrc-funding)
This ESRC Responsive Mode research project investigates the supply and use of Captagon in Jordan among refugee and socio-economically marginalised communities.
### 08 October 2024
#### [New article on decoloniality and justice](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/tde/centres/cendep/news/2024/10/new-article-on-decoloniality-and-justice)
A new article by CENDEP's Dr Farah Mihlar, published in the 'Journal of Human Rights Practice', argues on the need include decolonial thinking in the field of transitional justice.
[See all news](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/tde/centres/cendep/news)
[November 2023 Newsletter](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/getmedia/1f54a924-8ea8-4a95-9178-aaea489698ea/CENDEP-Newsletter-November-2023.pdf)
[March 2023 Newsletter](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/getmedia/57940332-29d0-45a1-9988-9c88dcd0e57f/CENDEP-Newsletter-March-2023.pdf)
[March 2022 Newsletter](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/getmedia/7d092c77-58cf-4309-809e-9f3b53420a44/CENDEP-Newsletter-March-2022.pdf)
[September 2021 Newsletter](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/getmedia/8f01827d-ebe2-494f-8e11-6c63e2f48dc9/CENDEP-Newsletter-Sep-2021.pdf)
[Newsletter archive](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/tde/centres/cendep/newsletter-archive/)
## Oxford Human Rights Festival
14 - 21 March 2025
The Oxford Human Rights Festival, which is hosted by the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice, Oxford Brookes University is back for its 23rd instalment.
Over the past 20 years, this festival has used its platform to shed light on the importance of Human Rights through engaging programmes consisting of films, performances, talks, exhibitions, poetry, forms of art and more.
This year's festival's theme is 'Power of the People'. The theme aims to emphasise the power of the civil society groups and social movements to drive change through voices of the marginalised and affirming solidarities to these voices towards towards fulfilling of the universal Human Rights of all.
It aims to inspire conversations and actions that foster connections, empathy, and collaboration among individuals, social action groups and communities, fostering a platform for solidarity and change. Every person can champion human rights locally and globally while encouraging dialogue and collective mobilisation for justice in Oxford and beyond, towards a more equitable and just world.
[Oxford Human Rights Festival website](https://www.oxfordhumanrightsfestival.net/)
## Keep up to date
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CENDEP Blog](https://cendep.blogspot.com/)
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Working paper series](https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/s/cendepworkingpapers)
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Past student dissertations](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/tde/centres/cendep/dissertations)
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Past talks and events](https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/s/cendeppodcast)
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