Syrian Crisis
The Global Response explainer. (10%) A brief but thorough PP or Prezi that lays out how the world has reacted (or not) to your crisis. What type of news media coverage or social media was there or not there? What are UN agencies doing? The EU? The US? Major humanitarian aid or human right organizations? Who is responding to the crisis and how? Use words and images and/or can do a voice over in Voice Thread. Make sure everything is attributed in both in-text and listed at the end. http://library.concordia.ca/help/citing/apa.php Include: A. Title page. (Your name, class, date, assignment (Global Reponses to XXXX, something simple and direct) B. A very brief summary description of the crises using the terminology we have read and discussed in class. C. Who and how is the international community responding to this crisis? What has been done to assist people directly impacted by the crisis? Humanitarian aid? Asylum? Refugee camps? Negotiations? Condemnation? AND who is doing this? UN? US? Relief or humanitarian organization? D. Your List of Works Cited. Not everything you have seen but what you relied on for this response explainer. https://new.library.arizona.edu/research/citing/guide or http://library.concordia.ca/help/citing/apa.php?guid=refover E. Post your Global Response Explainer in the week No. 7a Discussion forum when it is up. Then you will be asked to comment on two other colleagues findings. Week 8: Wednesday, Dec. 9, at 11:30 p.m. Field work! (5%) (Report of up to 1,000 words) You are going to cover or conduct research around your crisis! You will be going for 10 days. You have backgrounded yourself on the crisis and you know it well. Now you have to prepare to do the actual reporting or research and do it safely. Write a report and address these questions (depending on where you are going you do not have to answer all of these): 1.) Preparations. Where are you going? Where do you fly into? Where will you stay? Do you need a fixer or a translator who might that be? Where do you need to travel to within the area (for example, a border city or a refugee camp?) What do you need to do to prepare? What are your health and safety concerns and how will you address them? What do you have to take and what do you have to leave behind? What do you have to have ready on the ground for when you arrive (Translator? Fixer? Car – regular or 4-wheel? Driver or can you drive? Hotel room or guest house or friend? Booked?) Permits, visas and permissions needed? What equipment (cameras, tripods, etc.) do you need? Take or rent there? 2.) Sources for research or reporting. Who will be your sources? Remember sources are documents, representatives from organizations and your own observation. List them from all three groups. What in-depth and high-quality articles or reports from earlier assignments will you rely on for factual background information and upon which to base your questions. List as you would in an annotated List of References and include a URL if there is one. Who do you need to interview on the ground there? Officials? People effected by the crisis? Aid workers or officials? Other journalists? Other researchers? U.N. officials? Emergency agencies with the government? Who do you need for background? Who to explain? Who to serve as examples of the problem? Compile a list of questions you want answered and specifically who you think can answer them. What you think you need to observe there? Where do you need to go? How will you get there? Permissions? Officials?
