Biography:
Dalila Gharbaoui joined the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) as PHD student in October 2014. She works under the supervision of Francois Gemenne and is PHD candidate/Research assistant jointly under the supervision of Steven Ratuva since November 2015 under the Regional Mardsen Project designed to rethink future regional security and exploring the nexus between state-based and indigenous security systems in the Pacific at the Macmillan Brown Center for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Formerly working on Regional Integration Studies at the United Nations University, Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges and as Junior Researcher for the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Observatory on Migration at the International Organization on Migration (IOM) in Brussels, Dalila’s interest on Regionalism, Land Security, South-South Migration and Climate Governance led her to focus her research thesis on the interplay between local culture and formal security mechanisms in planning for regional strategies related to migration as adaptive response to climate change in the Pacific region emphasizing on the issue of land security.
Dalila is undergraduated in Political Sciences and holds a Master’s degree in Human Rights from the University of Sydney in Australia, where she worked on land management and environmentally-induced migration in the Pacific Region for her final dissertation and realized a research project on “The conditions for sustainable relocation as an adaptive response to climate change in the Pacific region” at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Regional Office in Canberra. Dalila also holds a Certificate in Human Rights Law from the University of Geneva, Switzerland and a Certificate in « Field research methods (qualitative and quantitative) in environmentally-induced migration » from the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security Studies (UNU-EHS) and the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) programme in Bonn, Germany.
Interests: Land security, Land tenure, Climate-induced Migration-Regional governance