Objectives

• Offer University academic programmes;
• Provide short term training to those working in the area of refugees and related fields
• Conduct research on forced migration with an emphasis on East Africa and the Great Lakes Region
• Engage in outreach activities and dissemination of information relevant to forced migration.
• Provide legal and Humanitarian aid

Activities

• Teaching
• Research
• Services delivery/Outreach
• Dissemination of Humanitarian Law
• Provide legal and humanitarian aid

SFM is increasingly becoming an attractive dissemination for researchers with an interest in refugee related matters

History

The Centre for the Study of Forced Migration (CSFM) was established by decision of Senate of the University of Dar es Salaam in early 1995 following recommendation by the Board of the Faculty of Law. The establishment of the Centre was partly influenced by the tragic events in neighbouring Rwanda in April 1994, where close to one million people had been annihilated and several million others forced to flee to become either internally displaced (IDPs) or refugees. CSFM was at the same time launched as a response to a UNESCO-UNITWIN initiative meant to set up a network of East African institutions involved with refugee studies