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The LSE Scholars At Risk scheme is an LSE-wide initiative co-ordinated from the Centre for the Study of Human Rights.

The Scholars At Risk scheme houses scholars whose lives or work are being threatened in their home countries and who have research interests that coincide with those of the School. LSE is currently hosting an Iraqi researcher; an Iraqi political scientist and a Palestinian economist.

Over time, and with additional and secure funding, LSE hopes to have a community of scholars here able to contribute to their respective fields of research and teaching in a climate of safety and conducive to the flourishing of academic pursuits.

LSE has a long history of protecting scholars against persecution: in response to the persecution of central European scholars by the Nazis the LSE supported the establishment of an Academic Assistance Council (now the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics) set up to help refugee academics. From 1933 the School invited scholars fleeing the war to continue their work in the safe and stimulating environs of the LSE, among them Karl Popper and George Soros.

This scheme originated from a mapping study funded by a Pathfinder grant from the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics and is currently supported by the LSE Annual Fund.

LSE is connected to an international network of universities and colleges - the Scholars at Risk Network - that defends the human rights of persecuted scholars worldwide.

LSE SAR Event

Speaking Out: Academic Freedom in the 21st Century - Tuesday 23 March, 1 - 2.30pm - free to attend
In this panel discussion, co-hosted with CARA, scholars from Iraq, Thailand and the Cameroon will discuss the personal threats and difficulties that they experienced in carrying out their academic work.

Publications by LSE SAR Fellows

'Attack from within: Fear of home-grown terrorists has created a battle over multiculturalism' Mina Al-Lami, Kulturaustausch I (2010), Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen
(link to Article as published in German)

'The jihadist style-journey: Germany’s election and after' Mina Al-Lami (with Ben Loughlin), Open Democracy, 29 September 2009

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