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)
More than a game: Finding belonging through soccer
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Navigating Canada's immigration and education nexus
← Big Thinking Podcast homepage Next episode → Description | About the guest | Transcript | Follow us Description In this episode, we’re exploring a topic that has grabbed headlines across Canada over this past year – the cap on international...
From the Jheri curl to TikTok: Canada and the global business of Black beauty
← Big Thinking Podcast homepage Next episode → Description | About the guest | Transcript | Follow us Description Every day we are bombarded by words and images telling us what we should find beautiful, and what we should aspire to look like. Black...