Education is the orphan of any war. This is particularly true in - TopicsExpress



          

Education is the orphan of any war. This is particularly true in Syria, where brutal violence has spilled over onto university campuses, with tragic bombings this year at the University of Aleppo and the University of Damascus. Students and professors have been targeted in retribution for participation in protests, forced to abandon their homes and universities in order to escape shelling, and displaced from classrooms and laboratories because continuing their work would involve too much danger. As higher education in Syria dies, along with many students and professors, we call upon the international community to take action because we now have a singular chance to affect the future of the Syrian national academy and a moral imperative to do so. By working together to help Syrian students and scholars, we can create an immediate and measurable impact on the peace and prosperity of post-conflict Syria, and avoid a lost generation. This was the topic of a panel convened by the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund, or IIE-SRF, and the Center for Public Scholarship at the New School for Social Research in New York City, called “Syrian Higher Education in Crisis: The road forward”. Two Syrian scholars rescued by the IIE-SRF, Dr Amal Alachkar and Dr Moaath Al-Rajab, told chilling stories of the interrogation, detention, beatings and torture that occurred before they fled from Syria and, thanks to the IIE-SRF, found safe haven at universities in the United States. Many of their less fortunate colleagues have been killed or have simply disappeared. Loss
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:51:28 +0000

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