Webinar
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 1:00-2:30PM EST / 6:00-7:30PM GMT / 7:00-8:30PM CMT / 7:00-8:30PM GMT+2 / 8:00-9:30PM EET
English Version
Ukrainian Version
This year 2023 World Refugee Day marks the highest level of displacement on record. A staggering 103 million individuals have been forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. Sixty percent of those displaced across borders come from just five countries: Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Ukraine. Today’s ICMGLT’s webinar will concentrate primarily on children of three of these groups. Multidisciplinary experts will review child refugee experiences at various stages of the process, applying a short as well as long-term, intergenerational preventive lens.
Speakers:
Niemat Ahmadi, BA, MSc
Founder and President of Darfur Women Action Group and the Founder/CEO of Unique22 LLC Strategies, Ms. Ahmadi is a veteran human rights and genocide prevention activist and a seasoned strategic planning and management professional. Having previously worked for various international NGOS in the fields of emergency relief, development and policy advocacy, she was recognized by President George W. Bush as a freedom fighter for human rights of her people. She holds an MSc in sustainable development and a BA in Psychology and Preschool Education from Ahfad University for Women in Sudan.
Andre Laperrière, BA, MA, MBA
An expert in international development, populations displacement and hunger, with degrees in Administration and Industrial Relations, Canadian Mr. Laperrière worked for over 18 years, mostly with the United Nations, in conflict and post-conflict areas on three continents with refugees and internally-displaced persons, including in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Haiti, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is the first Executive Director of the Trust Fund for Victims of the International Criminal Court.
Kateryna Yavna, MA
A Ukrainian Psychologist, with a pre-Bolonia agreement specialist psychology degree from the University of Lviv, Ukraine, and accredited Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) therapist and teacher-supervisor, Kateryna serves as Head of the accreditation committee of the Ukrainian Association of CBT as well as the Director of Publishing at the Institute of Mental Health at the Ukrainian Catholic University. She is a trainer at the Children and War Foundation, United Kingdom.
Prof. Dinka Čorkalo Biruški
A professor of social psychology at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her research interests include intergroup relations in war and peace, especially social reconstruction processes in war-torn communities. She has led several research programs on integration of ethnic minorities and the role of schools in these processes. She has recently been involved in developing programs for Croatian elementary schools to integrate refugees and prepare local children for the arrival of their refugee peers.
Moderator:
Dr. Yael Danieli, Founder and Executive Director, International Center for the study, prevention and treatment of MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma; Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children; Past-President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
