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OLLI Global Conflict and the Refugee CrisisProfessor Crawford

Wars, conflict,persecution, state failure,and even climate change have forcedmore people than at any other timesince records began to flee their homesand seek refuge and safety elsewhere.Most of the world’s 60 million refugeesin 2015 were fleeing ethnic andreligious conflicts. We will explore thecentral issues at stake for both refugeesand host countries, including protractedrefugee states, why refugees must takelife-threatening journys once they havebeen forced from their homes, issues ofresettlement, and the impact of thecrisis in Europe. We will then focus onsome of the root causes of the crisis inglobal ethnic and sectarian conflict, andthe Syrian conflict as a case study,Finally, we will look to the future andthe search for workable and robustsolutions.

 

 

 

 

Week I The Global Refugee Crisis and Course Overview

Watch "Growing Home"

Week II: Why Don't Refugees Fly?

Watch: Turkish Coast Guard fires Water Canon at Refugees

Watch the film: "In this World" (2002) docudrama following a refugee/migrant (whichone?) from Pakistan to London

Lynzy Billing, "These are the Most Powerful Photographs of the Syrian Refugee Crisisin 2015" BuzzFeedNews, Dec. 11, 2015

Week III: The Political, Social, and Economic Impact of the Crisis on Europe

Read: "Moral Leader or Moral Hazard: Germany’s Response to the Refugee crisis andits Impact on European Solidarity"

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Week IV: Conflict and Climate as Causes of the Global Refugee Crisis

Kenan Malik A search for identity draws jihadis to the horrors of Isis

Rukmini Callamachi, ISIS and the Lonely Young American, June 27 2015Phillip Zimbardo, “The Stanford Prison Experiment"Audry Quinn, "Syria's Climate Conflict" (There are good readings listed at thebottom of the article)

And for those who wish to read more deeply:

Peter H. Gleick, "Water, Drought, Climate Change, and Conflict in Syria" 2013Muller J. Z. (2008). "Us and Them: The Enduring Power of EthnicNationalism"  Foreign Affairs, March/April, 18-35.Kurzban and Leary 2001. “Stigmatization andExclusion” http://instruct.uwo.ca/psychology/371g/Kurzban2001.pdGamson, William A. "Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the Politics ofExclusion."   American Sociological Review Vol. 60:No. 1., February 1, 1995.  Civizational conflict: HuntingtonRogers Brubaker: Ethnicity without groups. European Journal of Sociology(2002), 43:            163‑177 (177-185 is a case study of Hungarians and Romanians inTransylvania for those interested)Rogers Brubaker, "Religious Dimensions of Political Conflict andViolence," 2015Fearon J.  and Laitin D.(2000).  Violence and the Social Construction of EthnicIdentity. International Organization 54, (4), 845-877.Rik Coolsaet, "Facing the Fourth foreign Fighters Wave: What DrivesEuropeans to Syria, and to the Islamic State? Insights from the Belgian Case,"March 2016War in the Central African Republic           

Week V: A Case Study of Syria

William Polk, "Understanding Syria: from Pre-Civil War to Post-Assad" TheAtlantic 2013

Week VI: The Search for Solutions

Protracted Displacement: Uncertain Paths to self-reliance in exileFearon, James D., “Separatist Wars, Partition, and World Order,” SecurityStudies, vol. 13, no. 4 (July 2004), pp. 394-415.

And for those who wish to read more deeply:

Stephan Rosiny, "Power Sharing in Syria: Lessons from Lebanon's TaifExperience" Middle East Policy Journal, Fall 2013 (Yasmin)Kaufmann, Chiam D., “Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars,”            International Security, vol. 20, no. 4 (Spring 1996), pp. 136-175.

 

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