Children in Crisis: Post WW2 and Relevance for Today

Children in Crisis: Post WW2 and Relevance for Today

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Alice Salom Universitx of Applied Sciences, Western Galilee College, Akko, Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London
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Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London
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London
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United Kingdom
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17.10.2017 - 19.10.2017
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Dr. Verena Buser, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin

The workshop has one major theme: sharing relevant historical knowledge about post WW2 and Holocaust child rehabilitation with people caring for children affected by war and genocide in today's world.
In 1944/45 in Europe alone, about 25,000.000 Europeans were Displaced Persons or refugees on the move. Many of them were children some with their families and some unaccompanied. Today, the current refugee movement has more than 21.3 million people worldwide registered as refugees by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). At least 51 percent of them are under the age of 18 years. In Europe alone, live today approximately 90,000 unaccompanied minors. As children they are regarded as a group with specific needs. The expert knowledge gained in the post WWII years on rehabilitating children on the macro and micro level has been forgotten today. For the UN, present day policy makers and aid workers handling the current refugee crisis and working with children affected by war and genocide, the knowledge could be of immense value.
The workshop participants will discuss how rehabilitation processes and social services for children evolved after the Second World War. Then it was the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), and its successor the International Refugee Organization (IRO) assisted and searched for hundreds of thousands of children and teenagers affected by the unprecedented human catastrophe. Together with NGOs and with private and national indicatives they developed new approaches and methodologies in child care which are still relevant today.
Questions and problems from then are not only or still vibrant today but are universal and arise repeatedly in (refugee) history. By studying topics related to it, it becomes clear that humanitarian aid work is not automatically sustained, but needs to be further developed, and protected and modified according to a current situation. However, a look into past relief efforts may help to trigger a historical awareness in dealing with the current number of war affected and refugee children. In any case, within a reflected analysis one could ask which strategies from then could be helpful for today. Other considerations may include: which instruments could serve as a best practice model in work done today with such children? And which questions regarding education, rehabilitation, family reunification, resettlement practices, or adoptions from the post-war periodn are “modern” questions and still relevant today?
The workshop will bring together for the first time UN experts, NGOs, and leading scholars and practitioners from the field with historians researching work with children in the post war world. The workshop will be starting a point for further research to develop a policy paper for today´s stakeholders and policy makers on child refugee issues, and will initiate further research on that topic to stimulate a broader discussion of how historical knowledge can serve for today´s needs.

Programm

Children in Crisis: Post WW2 and Relevance for Today
October 17-19 2017, Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London; Sponsored by the Foundation Memory, Responsibility and Future and the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences, with support of the UNHCR, Genève.

Conveners:
Dr Verena Buser, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin and Dr Boaz Cohen, Western Galilee College, Akko
Conference Host:
Prof Mary Fulbrook, University College London

Tuesday 17th
Venue: Institute of Advanced Studies UCL, Room 11, 1st floor, South Wing, Wilkins Building

11:00–11:30
Registration: Room 17

11:30–12:30
Greetings:
Prof Mary Fulbrook, UCL Dean, Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences

Opening remarks:
Dr Verena Buser and Dr Boaz Cohen

12:30–13:30
Keynote Lectures:

Prof Michael Berkowitz Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL: Children in government film: Trauma, Transition, and Responsibility in post-war Europe

Dr Joanna Michlic UCL Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Trajectories of Rehabilitation of Jewish Child Survivors in Poland, 1945-1949: Approaches and Challenges

13:30-14.15
Lunch

14:15–16:15
Session I. Listening to Children after War and Genocide

Chair: Dr Jessica Reinisch, Birbeck, University of London

Ms Gloria Atiba-Davies International Criminal Court, The Hague:
Crimes Against and Affecting Children in the Rome Statute
Ms Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych University of Warsaw: Attempts of Rehabilitation during the Wartime - The Case of the Orphanage of Janusz Korczak (1939-1942)
Prof William Yule Children and War Foundation/Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London: Training skills for Recovery in Children affected by War, Disaster and Displacement

16:15–16.45
Break

16:45–18:45
Session II: Children on the Move after WW2 and Today

Chair: Dr Christine Schmidt, Wiener Library, London
Dr Verena Buser Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin The DP Experience of Children
Ms Sofia Kouvelaki The Home Project, Athens: Invisible Children: Support, Protection, Education and Social Integration Services to Unaccompanied Children in Greece
Dr Karen Wells Birbeck, University of London: Bringing Children’s Bodies back in: Understanding the specific Vulnerabilites of Children in contemporary Wars

19:00
Dinner: Institute of Advanced Studies UCL, Roberts Building, Room 105a


Wednesday 18th Venue: German Historical Institute London, 17 Bloomsbury Square

9:30
Registration

9:45–10:00
Opening Remarks:
PD Dr Michael Schaich, German Historical Institute London

10:00–11:20
Session III. The Search for Children

Chair: Dr Simone Gigliotti, Royal Holloway, University of London

Ms Rocío Comas University of Erlangen-Nuremberg: Unaccompanied Migrant Children in EU
Ms Tehila Darmon Malka Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: The Search for Jewish children in the aftermath of the Holocaust

11:20–11:40
Break

11:40–13:00
Session IV. Homes and Shelters

Chair: Dr Boaz Cohen

Dr Maggie Fraser Kirsh College of William and Mary, Williamsburg: Housing as Healing: The Placement and Rehabilitation of young Holocaust Survivors
Dr Christian Hoeschler International Tracing Service Bad Arolsen: The Care of Unaccompanied Minors in the IRO Children’s Village Bad Aibling, 1948-1951

13:00–13:45
Lunch

13:45-15:00
Session V. Challenges of Rehabilitation 1

Chair: Prof Johannes-Dieter Steinert, University of Wolverhampton

Dr Boaz Cohen Western Galilee College, Akko/Shaanan College, Haifa: Rehabilitation of Children and Staff, Survivors of the Holocaust 1945
Ms Tricia Young Child to Child, UK: Responding to Children impacted by Ebola using the Child to Child Participatory Approach

15:00-15:15
Break

15:20–16:45
Session VI. Challenges of rehabilitation 2

Chair: Dr. Verena Buser

Ms Anke Kalkbrenner Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg/ Bergische Universität Wuppertal: Historical perspectives on the grey zones of intercountry adoption and the case of Jewish children in the aftermath of World War II
Dr Bina D´Costa Office of Research – Innocenti, UNICEF, Florence: UNICEF, Forced Displacement and Humanitarian Action (Skype presentation)

Thursday 19th
Venue: Institute of Advanced Studies UCL – Common Ground, G11, South Wing, Wilkins Building

8:30–8:45
Opening Remarks

08:45–10:30
Session VII. Children in the Archives

Chair: Dr Daniel Wildmann, Leo Baeck Institute London/Queen Mary, University of London

Ms Montserrat Canela Garayoa Archives of the UNHCR, Genève: Protection Needs and Historical Research: The Protection Role of UNHCR Records and Archives. Refugee Children Protection as a Case Study
Ms Carina Huestegge Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences The Archives of the ASH Berlin

10:30–11:00
Break

11:00–13:00
Session VIII. Changes of Rehabilitation 3

Chair: Prof Dan Stone, Royal Holloway, University of London

Ms Fareeda Miah Children in Crisis: Education in Emergencies for Returnee and Displaced Children in Afghanistan
Dr Rebecca Clifford Swansea University: Family Reunification after the Holocaust: Lessons for the Present

13:00–13:45
Lunch

13:45–15:00
Concluding discussion

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