Thursday, 27/10/2016
We were invited by Student Action, a student group at Manchester University, to deliver a talk on the Syrian refugee crisis on 26 October. We first talked about how Syria was before the uprising to highlight the conditions that pushed people to protest in 2011. We then talked about the current situation in Syria to identify the reasons why Syrians have had to flee their country. We ended by emphasising that as a compassionate response to the Syrian refugee crisis, our responses have to be two-fold: firstly, to respond to the immediate humanitarian need of taking in and supporting refugees, but also secondly to work to resolve the root causes of the conflict in Syria so that people are protected in their own homes.
