Escaping violence : New approach to forced migration

Mohammed Badran a refugee and has his own NGO to support other refugees. Listening to his inspiring yet harrowing tales and also how he now wants to support other refugees. His talk was about how Refugee voices matters in Policy makings and how does a nation come together to figure out a solution to prevent unwanted massacre and violence.

His talk is available on Facebook at Zelberg Institute on migration and mobility. As a youth from a changing society I feel like these issues are very important to be addressed. There has been large scale migration from Bhutan to other countries for various reasons but what are the reasons for those movement? ”if people are moving then something is wrong in that country which needs to be address.”

There are many factors as to why people leave their country some forced and some willingly. So that’s where Professor Miriam Ticktins talk on innocence comes, people are innocent because they are being motivated to do certain things that they believe is the truth which comes from a certain place of innocence and uninformed. There is a question of morality, is being complacent also a crime?

I learned from her talk that there is a thin line between dishonesty and innocence. One doesn’t know which lines are crossed for potential life which seems like an end of a problem. There are many lines drawn by ones principles and morality but in the process of accommodating more in life the lines are crossed without Being aware.

In this session the in-between kept popping up, you have to reach a destination in this case getting a citizenship or legal document is place B. A is the place where you came from or left once and for all. But what goes in between the decision making and destination is everything.

The in-between forces people to do things that they are not aware or have planned to do so from before.