scholarly journals Emergency Architecture in Lebanon: the Gateway to what is required from us for the Future of Emergency Architecture

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 663-672
Author(s):  
Arch. Nader Jaber
Keyword(s):  
Phase Ii ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fact Question

Abstract: Throughout the years, tents have dominated the scene when it comes to emergency architecture, what is the reason behind it? Many architects and engineers have tried to put forward alternatives, and even though many ideas were brilliant they have failed to overcome the dominance of tents. This fact question whether we should really try to give alternatives or whether all our efforts should be focused elsewhere? The following entangles this argument through a series of researches and site visits performed in Lebanon. Keywords: Emergency architecture, Phase II, refugee camps, refugee settlements, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine.

On South Sudan, in English. Review of the Books by Peter Martell “First Raise A Flag: How South Sudan Won the Longest War but Lost the Peace” and John Young “South Sudan’s Civil War: Violence, Insurgency and Failed Peacemaking”

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-115
Author(s):  
Anna Sharova
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Civil War ◽  
English Language ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
International Governance ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Graham Greene ◽  
The Future ◽  
Independent Country ◽  
Spot Analysis

Anna Sharova reviews two recent books separately published by two English language authors – P. Martell and J. Young. The books are very different in style and mood. While P. Martell presents an excellent example of British journalist prose in the style of his elder compatriots Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene, who did their reporting and writing from exotic countries during fateful periods of history, J. Young offers a more academic, though no less ‘on the spot’ analysis of the situation in the youngest independent country of Africa. J. Young’s considers two possible approaches to conflict resolution as possible outcomes: non-intervention cum continuation of the war, or the introduction of international governance. P. Martell comes up with a disappointing prediction about the future of South Sudan. The war will go on, the famine will return, and the threat of genocide will not disappear. People will continue to flee the country, and refugee camps will grow. New warring groups will appear, new murders will be committed. Neighbouring states will not stop competing for influence and resources. New peacekeepers will arrive. Warlords will be accused of crimes, but, as before, they will escape punishment, while some will be promoted.

scholarly journals The Temporary Safe Haven- An Australian Perspective

Refuge ◽  
2001 ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
Jackie King
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Safe Haven ◽  
Temporary Protection ◽  
Australian Context ◽  
The Future ◽  
International Obligations ◽  
Democratic Rights ◽  
The Government

Australia's decision to provide temporary safe haven protection to 4000 Kosovars in response to the UNHCR request for assistance in their humanitarian evacuation from refugee camps in surrounding countries, required quick action by the government to provide for an unprecedented legislative and service delivery framework. This paper looks at the notion of temporary protection, both in international and specifically Australian context, before describing and assessing the legislative and service delivery mechanisms that facilitated Australia's response. This paper concludes that the risk of selective intepretation of the legislation and the denial of democratic rights to the subjects of legislation, and the less than adequate service delivery to the Kosovars, and the arguable breach of its international obligations, suggests that Australia will have to think twice before engaging in such a mechanism in the future.

The future of phase II trials

2006 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-22
Author(s):  
John Farley ◽  
Michael J. Birrer ◽  
Michaele C. Christian
Keyword(s):  
Phase Ii ◽  
Phase Ii Trials ◽  
The Future

Child marriages in Rwandan refugee camps

Africa ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan de Smedt
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Young Adolescents ◽  
Deviant Behaviour ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

The Rwandan refugee camps in Tanzania witnessed the marriages of very young adolescents: girls as young as 13–14 married boys of 14–15 years, boys they often did not even know. These marriages usually did not last very long; after a few months many girls were forced to leave—sent away by their husband. People of both sexes and all ages, when asked about the problems in the camp, would always mention these child marriages as one of the biggest problems. They were worried not only about the loss of respect for Rwandan culture and traditional values but also about the future of the marriages and what would become of the children. This article is not based on extensive research into child marriages, but the author was able to interview a number of young people who had got married in the camps, and to collect information and the opinions of other people on these and other cases. Rather than describing marriage customs and wedding ceremonies in Rwanda, and comparing them with what took place in the refugee camps, the article aims to show the impact of (civil) war, the consequent poverty and the destruction of social structures on a community, in order to show how in these circumstances behaviour can change radically. Refugees have to build up a new life in a camp, and the new ‘society’ is likely to be different from the one they came from, with different rules and changed values. Among various examples of deviant behaviour child marriages were the most remarkable.

Mai Masri: Mothering Film-makers in Palestinian Revolutionary Cinema

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Van de Peer
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Women Filmmakers ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Occupied Territories

In Palestine, it is hard to find resident women filmmakers as the Palestinian people are so dispersed in exile throughout the world, and finding the means to make films inside the Occupied Territories is extremely difficult. Mai Masri, a Palestinian resident in Lebanon, was the first woman to start to make films about Palestinians in refugee camps throughout the Middle East. She is one of the pioneers of Palestinian documentary and especially of the trend that has become dominant in Palestinian filmmaking: a focus on children’s experience of Palestine. Her films illustrate how the struggle for a national identity in Palestine is often mixed with the struggle for personal, physical freedom. Motherhood, wifehood and womanhood are politicised identities in Palestine. In her earliest films such as Children of Shatila (1998) and Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (2001), she offers up children’s perspectives to illustrate the politicisation of even the most unlikely participants in the struggle against oppression. A child’s perspective is portrayed as a struggle with the past and the future that is on-going, as the child represents the hope as well as the hopelessness of the Palestinian cause.

Conceptual Design and Neutronics/Thermal-Hydraulic Coupling Optimization Analyses of Two Typical Helium Cooled Solid Breeder Blanket Modules for CFETR Phase II

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shijie Cui ◽  
Dalin Zhang ◽  
Wenxi Tian ◽  
G. H. Su ◽  
Suizheng Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Phase Ii ◽  
Fusion Energy ◽  
Operation Condition ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Hydraulic Coupling ◽  
The Future ◽  
Test Reactor ◽  
Solid Breeder Blanket

Chinese Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) is a new test Tokamak device which is now being designed in China to make the transition from the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) to the future Fusion Power Plant (FPP). Breeding blanket is the key component of fusion reactor which is mainly responsible for the tritium self-sufficiency and fusion energy conversion. In the past few years, three kinds of blanket conceptual design schemes have been proposed and tested in parallel for CFETR Phase I, in which the helium cooled solid breeder (HCSB) blanket concept is acknowledged as the most promising one. However, nowadays, the design phase of CFETR has gradually changed from I to II aiming for the future DEMO operation condition, the main parameters of which are quite different from the previous one. Therefore, it’s necessary to perform conceptual design and various analyses for the HCSB blanket under the new working condition. In this work, firstly, a new conceptual design scheme of HCSB blanket for Phase II is put forward. Then, the radial build arrangements, of the two typical blanket modules are optimized by using the NTCOC. This work can provide valuable references for further conceptual design and neutronics/thermal-hydraulic coupling analyses of the HCSB blanket for CFETR Phase II.

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