Big Thinking with Allan Rock
A call to action: Rethinking leadership in the global response to forced migration
What place should refugees and internally displaced persons have in the upcoming federal election? How can universities help inform public policy and the general public on the issue? In this presentation, Allan Rock provides a brief overview of the World Refugee Council’s (WRC) most recent report and recommendations. Together, Rock’s keynote and the WRC report are a clarion call for the creation of a Global Action Network for the Forcibly Displaced. Rock highlights the critical importance of the active involvement of the academy in the Network, and engages policy makers, scholars, the media and the general public in a conversation on how to promote and implement the report’s proposed changes.
Allan Rock, former Senior Advisor to the World Refugee Council, President Emeritus of the University of Ottawa, Professor in the uOttawa Faculty of Law, and former federal minister Heather Scoffield, Ottawa Bureau Chief for The Canadian Press (moderator)
“But, where are you really from?”
In a keynote address to the Black Caucus of the Canadian Sociological Association, Dr. Debra Thompson (Associate Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies, McGill University) explored the...
Participation, Representation, and Trust in Racialized or Marginalized Communities as Weapons Against Systemic Racism
Congress 2021 blog edition Systemic racism refers to racism that is embedded in the processes, laws, and regulations of an institution. It extends beyond individual attitudes or acts of racism to encompass broader patterns of harmful or exclusionary...
Making Social Work Work: Presentations on Current Research in the Field of Social Work
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