Caroline Schiavo
2017
No Lost Generation: Establishing a Refugee Support Organization on a College Campus
NLGUR is a student group tasked by the State Department and is part of a student-run initiative that focuses on three pillars: fundraising to support aid organizations, advocacy and awareness of refugees and migrants, and in-kind support such as volunteering and curriculum uploading. The No Lost Generation Student Initiative is an independent consortium of student organizations that seeks to spread the mission of the initiative to college campuses, mobilizing students to enact lasting change. The college initiative was started at the George Washington University and has since grown to over fifty colleges and universities across the United States. There are currently over 80 chapters and growing nationwide. The No Lost Generation Initiative was launched in 2013 to focus attention on the plight of children affected by the the Syria and Iraq crises. By articulating real concerns about the possible ‘loss’ of a generation of children to the effects of violence and displacement, the initiative put education and child protection at the centre of the response inside Syria and across the 5 refugee hosting countries (Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt). The ultimate aim is to provide opportunities for children and youth affected by the crises in Syria and Iraq to heal learn and develop again.
Energy Policy and Security
Governments have long sought to achieve energy security. They have invested in different programs to increase domestic sources of energy, while pursuing a variety of other policy goals. This paper attempts to explain why energy security is such an important topic in national policy discussions. It answers the questions: How has the United States pursued energy security? Where has the US government failed and where has it made progress in pursuing energy security? What are the trade-offs in pursuing energy security?
Globalization: The Diplomatic Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Violence, hostilities, human rights violations, political persecution, physical harm, religious and cultural divides forced over 1.3 million families and children to flee their homes in the Middle East to emigrate to Europe in 2015. One popular conception of globalization is “the widening, deepening and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness in all aspects of contemporary social life.” Globalization advances countries - shared interests, shared ideologies, shared social media and shared political policies - to integrate in a fast-paced international arena where progress is inevitable that demand democratic values, mandating a humanitarian open stance for refugees emigrating to Europe.