In this 5-day course, students will learn from NGO professionals, diplomats, young refugee activists and scholars from South Asia, USA and UK who are working for sustainable peace and well-being for refugees and displaced persons.
Workshop programme
The virtual field trip will cover the following activities over 2-hour webinars over 5 days:
Day 1: Refugees, Conflict and Pathways to Justice
28 March, 2.30–4.30pm
Navine Murshid, Associate Professor Colgate University, New York will introduce students to concepts of refugee rights, humanitarian response and role of NGOs.
Day 2: The Refugee Crises in South Asia
29 March, 12–2pm
Webinar with youth activists from Myanmar, living in exile and campaigning for democracy, rights and justice. Students will get an immersive learning experience on Myanmar’s constructs of race and ethnic relations from colonial to postcolonial periods.
Day 3: A day in Kutupalong, the Rohingya Refugee Camp in Bangladesh
30 March, 12–2pm
Students will take part in a webinar with the barrister Manzoor Hasan, Director Centre for Peace and Justice, BRAC University and colleagues. CPJ have established a new centre at Kutupalong and they provide a course on Refugees and Civic Learning for young refugee activists. Instructors from the course will talk to students on Rohingya concerns and will facilitate students on a dialogue with young refugee activists from the Rohingya community.
Day 4: A day in Colombo, post conflict peace building with young people
31 March, 12.30–2.30pm
Webinar with Dr Nirmani Lyanage, Programme Manager Search for Common Ground, Colombo and Radhika Hettiriachi, Public Historian. The youth from internally displaced communities are central in resettlement and peace building efforts. Students will learn about digital archiving, memory and place making projects for youth and community reconciliation in Sri Lanka after the civil war.
Day 5: What is the UK government doing?
1 April, 11am–1pm
Webinar with Sir Mike Aaronson, Director of the Centre for International Intervention, University of Surrey, to learn about how global public diplomacy actors engage governments on issues of concern for stateless, internally displaced persons.
To register please email Ms Anna Menon at [email protected] by Friday, 25 March and provide a short 100-word statement of why you want to attend the workshop.
