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Co-sponsored by Peace Studies

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Unaccompanied and Unheard: The Sexual Exploitation of Boys in Refugee Camps & the Limitations of SGBV Conversations

Rasha Abousalem

Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Time: 5:00 pm CST
Venue: Switzler Hall 201 & Zoom

Venue: Tate 215 & Zoom

Synopsis: PEAFI was piloted last year, taking 120 youth aged 18-35 from 12 different countries through a fourteen-week online program.  The program splits into three parts: head, heart, and hands.  It results in the acquisition of skills and knowledge and the identification of an issue within the country of the team which requires them to research the cause, devises a possible solution or improvement, and plan (if possible) the implementation of the solution/improvement.

Bio: Alison joined Cardiff Bay Rotary some ten years ago and began working in the area of Peace.  She has served on the Rotary Action Group for Peace for the past eight years.  First as a Director,  then as Chair of Education leading to Chair of the Board.  She is one of a few global Cadre members of Rotary International for Peace and Conflict Prevention.  She remains on the RAGFP Board as Technical Director. She is based in Cardiff, Wales, and works (on behalf of Rotary) with prisoners, refugees and asylum seekers, and youth.  She is currently Peace Officer and District Governor for Southern Wales.  In this role, she works with the Home Office, Cardiff Council, multiple universities, and other leading organizations.

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The MU Peace Studies Speakers’ Series presents Mary Dickson-Amagada. This talk will be given via Zoom, as well as occur at the Leadership Auditorium. 

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Oct 4

Samuel Bior Garang, PhD, 64 Voices, South Sudan                                                                                      

Lecture Title: Defrosting the Frozen Lives

Talk by Angela Zimmerman, author of Alabama in Africa and professor of German history at George Washington University.

Lecture focused on a conjuror, Guinea Sam Nightingale, said to have been shot by cannon directly from West Africa to Boonville, Missouri, sometime in the 1850s.

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/7hnDkmoblys

Talk by Abdusabur Abdusamadov “Ozod” - MU Ph.D. candidate in sociology.

Topic: Speakers' Series: Ukrainian Crisis and Post-Soviet Russia

Subtopic: Understanding the crisis in Ukraine, its origin. and what comes next.

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3RtOX5gZlA

Wasuk Godwin Sule-Pearce, University of West London, “Black Pupils Matter”

Feb. 25, 2022, 10:00 AM CT

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaXmOvYKm5Q