From 2 - 7 December, CELL Principal and Co-founder Ayla Bonfiglio took part in the Salzburg Global Seminar on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL): A Global Synthesis.
On January 15th, CELL, in partnership with UNESCO and the Georg Eckert Institute (GEI) for International Textbook Research, organized a high-level workshop to examine the state-of-the-art on narrating violent pasts in education. Approximately 35 delegates from research, policy, and practice attended the workshop as well as 14 youth participants, comprising undergraduate researchers and high school students studying the representation of violent pasts in history textbooks. The workshop received support from USAID's Education in Conflict and Crisis Network (ECCN).
CELL's Atif Rizvi and Ayla Bonfiglio attented the Celebration of World Cities Day at UNESCO on October 31, 2018. At the event, Atif Rizvi spoke on a panel on Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development, exploring how can we use innovative tools to overcome the marginalization and segregation that takes place in cities? Also, as part of his intervention, Atif argued that discussions on sustainable cities must include possibilities for rebuilding cities destroyed by conflict and violence. We must also realize the role that cities can play in marginalization, segregation, and exclusion.
The Conflict and Education Learning Laboratory’s 'Violent Pasts Workshop' has been chosen by USAID's Education in Conflict and Crisis Network (ECCN) as a featured Partner Initiative that it will support for 2018-2019. CELL's Violent Pasts Workshop meets ECCN's key aim to advance knowledge and understanding about a critical area in the field of education in crisis and conflict (EiCC) settings. Moreover, through this Partner Initiative, ECCN and CELL shall seek to collaborate and strengthen synergies across their respective networks.
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Between 2-4 May 2018, CELL's Executive Director, Atif Rizvi, and Principal, Ayla Bonfiglio, participated in a sub-regional capacity-building workshop on the prevention of violent extremism through education (PVE-E), entitled "Global Citizenship Education for Peaceful Socieities in South-East Europe" in Venice, Italy. The workshop was jointly organized by UNESCO's Section of Global Citizenship and Peace Education (GCPE) and UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, with the support of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
On 24 January 2018, CELL ran a workshop session entitled "Divisive Stereotypes and Discrimination Within and Beyond the Classroom: The Context of Refugee and Migrant Students." The session was part of the Helping Students in Acceptance (HESTIA) workshop in Maastricht, The Netherlands, which brought together 15 teachers from Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and the United Kingdom.
On 31 January 2018, CELL's Principal Ayla Bonfiglio gave a public seminar entitled, "Understanding Refugee Agency and Mobility through the Pursuit of Tertiary Education" at the United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology and Maastricht University Graduate School of Governance (UNU-MERIT/MGSoG) at Maastricht University.
On 11 November 2016, Ayla Bonfiglio gave a lecture on Europe’s Refugee ‘Crisis’ for the European Law Students’ Association’s annual ELSA Day.
The event was attended by approximately 100 law students, other Maastricht University students, refugee youth, and local NGO and community-based organization representatives. Event organized by European Law Studies Association (ELSA) and Refugee Project Maastricht and took place in Maastricht, the Netherlands.