Forced Migration Online: Blog

Talk Together 2009, an ambitious conflict resolution project taking place in Oxford August 5-19, will examine the situation facing an estimated 170,000 people living in refugee camps in Algeria and separated from their families in the disputed territory of Western Sahara. Participants include young people from across the conflict zone, some of whom have grown up in refugee camps, as well as students from ‘neutral’ countries. The project is supported by partners including the European Commission, British Council and United World College. The project course will be filmed and there are also plans to develop a school’s version of the film to aid the learning of conflict resolution skills in schools. Talk Together invite you to demonstrate your support by joining their Facebook group or following them on Twitter.

• Amnesty International Public Statement
• TalkTogether website
• Talk Together Blog
• Talk Together on Twitter
• Talk Together on Facebook
• Donate to Talk Together
• United World Colleges website
• Western Sahara Research Guide
• Western Sahara Research Summary

The film Youth as Evaluators: Contested Spaces and Identity is now available to view online. In this documentary, young people talk about their countries and the issues that young people face there. The documentary was filmed during a gathering of young people involved in Public Achievement and similar programmes around the world (including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Finland, Netherlands, and Northern Ireland) at the Corrymeela Centre, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland 11 – 22 August 2005. The focus of the event was on training participants as evaluators of their youth programmes at home, and on creating an international network of young people interested in improving young people’s experience of being civic co-creators.

• Youth as Evaluators: Contested Spaces and Identity