GSN Study e-Broad
Session Guide
Refugees and Internal Displaced People
Study e-Broad Session
April 12-23, 2010
Session Objective:By participating in this GSN study e-broad session and its online activities, students will be able to articulate the core conditions that result in creating refugees and internally displaced people.
Directions for Participation:
To participate in this study e-broad session, there are two steps:
- The first requires you to review the information.
- The second requires you to interact through the online discussions and the live web-conference.
Review the Information:
To participate in the Refugee and Internal Displaced People study e-broad session review the below CRS staff primary essays that your professor asigns. It is strongly recommended that students also review the following foundational document Refugee? IDP? What’s in a Name? by Daisy Francis
Interaction:
On-line discussion
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Sign in as a GSN Member, and select the topic "Refugees & IDP April 2010"
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Once you've reviewed the material and signed into the GSN, you are now ready to participate in the online discussion (to be posted) portion of the Study e-broad Session. Please use the discussion threads (assigned by your instructor) to enter your considered written reflections. Be sure to end with your name, short-hand title of your course, and institution, e.g. J. Jones, Eth. Trad., VU.
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Now comes the exciting part. Visit the discussion board (to be posted) regularly between April 12-23 to see how other participants are responding to the essays/video, how they are responding to what you said, and to enter your responses to them. Be sure to begin your response by identifying the person you are responding to, e.g. "In response to K. Smith, Seattle U,…." End your response with your identifier. e.g. J. Jones, Eth. Trad., VU (Note: your instructor may give you guidelines on the number and length of responses required of you.)
Live Web-Conference
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To help us prepare for the live web-conference we will need your help. A few days before the web-conference, your instructor will ask you to submit to him/her some of the burning, unresolved questions and issues that you think require further discussion and analysis. Your instructor will pass them along to the university's site administrator or their CRS contact. These will become the basis for launching the live, interactive web-conference discussion. During the live web-conference itself, you and the other participants will have the opportunity to engage in discussion with one another and the CRS staff.
Primary Resources:
1) Iraqi Refugees in Lebanon by Melinda Burrell, CRS Lebanon Country Representative ⇒DISCUSS
2) Introduction to Protection of Refugee's & IDP slideshow by Daisy Francis For this piece, please respond to the following specific questions posed by Daisy:
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Why is protection a critical consideration when responding to refugees or internally displaced people?
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From what you have seen in the news, about disasters and conflicts, and based on what you just learned, what is the state of ‘protection’ in the world? Is there consensus about responding and how we should respond? Does something need to change and if so, what?⇒DISCUSS
3) Shifting Context for Humanitarian Action – Implications for the Protection of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) by Daisy Francis ⇒DISCUSS
4) Additional Question for Discussion: From the perspective of the discipline and course you are now taking, what insights, perspectives, and questions can be brought to bear on issues surfaced in the above essays/video? ⇒DISCUSS
⇒ Learn what makes for effective postings.
Live GSN Webcasts: to join, simply click one of the below links, and enter as a guest. No special password needed.
CRS policy expert Daisy Francis answers student questions and highlights important differences between refugees and internally displaced people.
- GSN Webcast Recordings:
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FACULTY NOTE: If your class does not meet during the above times, you are encouraged to consider either a) arranging participation outside of classtime, or b) to utilize the recorded versions of the Q&A sessions. Thank you.
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Join the CRS Legislative Network and advocate for policies that support the food insecure.
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Cook a simple meal with friends using recipes from CRS' Operation Rice Bowl.
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Raise funds to support efforts in Haiti and other troubled areas around the world.
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Sign on to Catholics Confront Global Poverty.
Questions?
Students, please see your professor for assistance.
Faculty, please contact your school's Site Administrator (below), or visit our faculty F.A.Q. page:
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Cabrini College: Jerry Zurek jzurek@cabrini.edu
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Seattle University: Yvonne Harrison yharriso@seattleu.edu
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Villanova University: Sue Toton suzanne.toton@villanova.edu
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All other institutions: campus@crs.org
