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Advocacy Event: Speaking Out Against Genocide
Mar 12 2009, 10:38 AM EDT
Throughout the course of this program, I have come to appreciate, even more, the class, race, and socioeconomic divides that keep many persecuted populations isolated and neglected to the point of peril. The reality that politics often trades wealth and comfort of a few for death and suffering of many, as was depicted very vividly in Gourevitch’s account of the genocide in Rwanda, is something that we cannot afford to accept. For this reason I chose to focus on genocide in my advocacy project. As future physicians, and health care professionals, we have been taught that there is nothing more worthy of preservation than human life. I believe we have a responsibility to accomplish this through our professional skills, as well as through our compassion. My event, entitled “Speaking Out Against Genocide”, consisted of a series of presentations on past and current cases of genocide around the world, and I asked the students in attendance to reflect on the presentations and write a letter to President Obama and his administration to use their influence in world politics to put a stop to genocide. There were a total of 5 presenters, including myself, who were volunteers from nursing, graduate, the medical school. Each presenter was responsible for covering important aspects of one of five cases of past and present genocide including: Bosnia, Darfur, Rwanda, Northern Uganda, and Sri Lanka. The format of the presentations varied from short video clips to posters and photographs with text. The event was held in a large atrium on campus so people were able to visit each of the presentations and explore them at their own pace over the course of 2 and a half hours. Do you find this valuable?
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1. RE: Advocacy Event: Speaking Out Against Genocide
Mar 12 2009, 10:39 AM EDT
Each student in attendance was then asked to reflect upon what they had seen and write a letter to persuade our government to take a no tolerance stance against genocide. Several templates were available for students to review before they wrote their own. For those students who wished to do further reading and research before writing, I gave them the option of submitting their letter to me a week later. A total of 42 letters were collected from the 53 students who attended the event. Overall I received positive feedback from the students in attendance, many of whom found the event to be a motivation to become more informed about and involved in advocacy against genocide.Do you find this valuable? |
