Several of our ORGL/COML had an opportunity to work with the UNHCR at a refugee transit/camp center during the Spring of 2011, accompanying many refugees displaced from Libya during the "Arab Spring" - "Arab Awakening" - "Arab Uprisings". Their displacement, oppression, and persecution could not have been more vivid for our graduate students working with the UN staff, delivering services, developing programs, and accompanying refugees in daily camp life. Most impressively, students were able to identify explicit hardiness principles in the lives of refugees and an implicit servant leadership framework in the operations of the UNHCR Office. What started in Tunisia in December 2010 has mushroomed to a sense of efficacy in multiple Northern African Countries. The following call for papers will interest graduate students passionately engaged in studying the crossroads between these global movements and leadership.
I am attaching a Call for Papers that specifically seeks work of graduate students in this area.
How to begin a revolution is a question that has received much attention from many great thinkers. The goal of the 2012 Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the Mahindra Humanities Center is to reverse that perspective and ask:
How to end a revolution?
(click on revolution to learn more about the conference hosted at Harvard University. Some partial funding may be available from Gonzaga University - GSBA)
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