R-Space is a refugee-led forum for critical dialogue that shifts away from state-centric conversations toward solutions driven by impacted communities. It brings lived experience into policy rooms and pushes past tokenism toward genuine influence and co-governance.

At What Cost? The Route-Based Approach and Refugee Protection

The route-based approach has become a cornerstone of displacement diplomacy, promoted as a way to protect refugees by deterring irregular movement and expanding legal pathways. Yet, from the EU–Tunisia and UK–Rwanda agreements to the rise of Safe Mobility Centers in Latin America, this model raises urgent questions: is it truly about protection, and at what cost?

The Humanitarian Reset: Resetting What, and for Whom?

As the UN turns 80 and launches its once-in-a-generation UN80 Reform Initiative, the humanitarian system has been declared “under reset.” But amid growing crises, political constraints, and unprecedented austerity, whose priorities will this reset truly serve? Will it be a transformation toward justice or a retrenchment of the broken status quo?