De nombreuses-x membres de l’\u00e9quipe de la MCSC ont v\u00e9cu des crises et ont \u00e9t\u00e9 des mobilisatrices et des mobilisateurs dans leur propre communaut\u00e9.\u00a0 Nos plus grandes contributions demeurent celles provenant du pr\u00e9cieux travail des jeunes chercheur\u2219es, mobilisatrices et mobilisateurs, dont le temps, les connaissances et l’\u00e9nergie sont le moteur de notre travail.<\/p>\n
La MCSC est membre du Connected Learning in Crisis Consortium<\/a>, cofond\u00e9 par le Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s afin de promouvoir et de soutenir l’offre d’un enseignement sup\u00e9rieur de qualit\u00e9 dans les contextes de crise.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\u00a0\u00bb1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n University of Ottawa<\/a> (Canada)<\/p>\n Universit\u00e9 Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth<\/a> (Liban)<\/p>\n Universit\u00e9 Saint-Paul<\/a> (Canada)<\/p>\n American University of Beirut<\/a> (Liban)<\/p>\n University College London<\/a> (Royaume-Uni)<\/p>\n Universidade de Brasilia<\/a> (Brazil)<\/p>\n Universit\u00e9 Unisinos<\/a> (Brazil)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\u00a0\u00bb1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Lebanese Association for Scientific Research<\/a> (Liban)<\/p>\n Dalia Association<\/a> (Palestine)<\/p>\n Youth Speak<\/a> (R\u00e9gion du Kurdistan d’Irak)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\u00a0\u00bb1\/2″] Nadia Abu-Zahra holds the Joint Chair in Women\u2019s Studies at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, and works with students, staff and faculty as well as local and transnational organizations toward transforming the structures and contexts of learning. Previously based at the University of Oxford\u2019s Refugee Studies Centre, Nadia is a member of the University of Ottawa\u2019s Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services, and Centre for International Policy Studies, and served on the Board and Reconciliation Committee of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.<\/p>\n Learn More<\/a><\/p><\/div> Emily Regan Wills est Professeure adjoint an associate professor of comparative politics at the University of Ottawa. \u00a0Her current research focuses on the effects of transnational linkages between Middle East and North America on everyday politics in the Arab world, with a particular focus on Palestinian transnationalisms. \u00a0She is a teacher of research methods, social movements, and social change, and integrates a decolonial approach to political science throughout her teaching. \u00a0Beyond CMIC, she is active in the Women’s Caucus of the Canadian Political Science Association, as a board member for the journal Studies in Political Economy: A Socialist Review<\/em>, and in LGBTQ refugee resettlement in Ottawa.<\/p>\n Learn More<\/a><\/p><\/div> [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\u00a0\u00bb1\/2″] Judy El-Mohtadi is a local organizer from Lebanon with an Honors Bachelors in Criminology and Feminist and Gender Studies. Judy started organizing through her role as the co-founder of the Feminist and Gender Studies Students’ Association and as the Coordinator of the Womxn\u2019s Resource Centre at the University of Ottawa where she spearheaded a number of initiatives, notably putting on Ottawa\u2019s first TEDxWomen event. Her activism on anti-racism began when she was elected as the Equity Commissioner with the University of Ottawa Students\u2019 Union and continued into her role as a Board member for the Ontario Public Interest Research Group and a Research Fellow with the Joint Chair in Women’s Studies. As a Project Manager with CMIC, Judy is interested in further reimagining structures of learning by working to normalize a more social justice-oriented, accessible and decolonial form of education and moving away from the hegemonic Western knowledge production cycle.<\/p><\/div> Diana El Richani is a Beiruti anthropologist based in Toronto. She holds a BA in Sociology and Anthropology, with a double major in Philosophy, from the American University of Beirut, and an MA in Anthropology from the University of Ottawa. Her MA thesis focused on the political imaginaries of the alternative and the ways through which they navigated the complex political terrain during the Beirut municipality elections in 2016. She is currently a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Toronto. \u00a0From 2017-2020, she was the Project Manager of CMIC. Her interests include social movements and community mobilizations in the Middle East, relationships to the state and its apparatuses, and extends to questions on postwar architectures, transitional justice, and ideas of decolonial cultural expressions.<\/p>\n Learn More<\/a><\/p><\/div> [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\u00a0\u00bb1\/3″] Student of the Master’s Degree in International Relations at the University of Montr\u00e9al (Udem) and of the MBA in Project Management at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), Isadora Branco has a degree in International Relations from the University of Bras\u00edlia (UnB). Since the beginning of her training, she works with the sociocultural integration of immigrants, mainly through community mobilization. She was the founder and coordinator of the Coral Solusyon, the founder and coordinator of the Tempo de Plantar Movement’s Structural Committee, and recently served as a Community Mobilization Assistant at a Shelter Center for Venezuelan Refugees in Bras\u00edlia, Brazil. Isadora was responsible for the evaluation plan of the first CMIC pilot in 2018 and also implemented a version of the Community Mobilization course at the University of Bras\u00edlia (UnB). As a Research Assistant at CMIC, she is responsible for collecting case studies, conducting interviews and contributing to CMIC’s materials.<\/p><\/div> Fajr Alsayed is a student of Communication and Political Science at the University of Ottawa. He first worked with Dr. Emily Regan Wills as a research assistant on the project \u201cOrganizing in Racialized, Indigenous and Refugee Communities in Canada.\u201d<\/i> Later, he helped translating, editing, and uploading content on the CMIC website. Fajr is currently working as a media analyst with Environment and Climate Change Canada as part of the Co-operative Education program at the University of Ottawa, and he is the co-head of campaigns with Amnesty International UOttawa. Beyond the University of Ottawa, Fajr worked as a translator and social worker with several NGOs in Syria and Germany that support people fleeing crisis zones, including Arabesque For Development in Syria and Refugees Welcome Ilmenau in Germany. He also volunteered at the Erasmus Student Network as a social work coordinator for international exchange students in Germany. He is a journalist, article writer, and advocate for global justice, social protection, and social development causes.<\/p><\/div> Ursula Johansson Rivero is a third year student at the University of Ottawa. She is studying International Development and Globalization with a minor in management. Born and raised in Belgium, Ursula has also a Spanish and Swedish nationality which has sparked her interest in international relations and international politics. Her interests also include social movements as well as immigration and refugees issues. She has recently written a critical essay about Europe\u2019s response to the migrant crisis and is looking to start a Master\u2019s Degree in International studies.<\/p><\/div> [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\u00a0\u00bb1\/3″] Dr. Sawsan Abdulrahim is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Health Promotion and Community Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, at the American University of Beirut. She obtained her doctoral degree from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Abdulrahim\u2019s research focuses on social inequalities and health, the social and cultural meanings of subjective health evaluations, and the structural conditions that influence the wellbeing of labor migrants and refugees. Her previous work has focused on the social determinants of health of Arab immigrants in the United States and migrant domestic workers in the Arab region. Currently, she is undertaking research on the health of Syrian refugee women in Lebanon, with an emphasis on reproductive health outcomes and early marriage. She teaches courses in health promotion theory, forced migration and health, and global public health.<\/p><\/div> Zahraa Beydoun is a Researcher and a Project Coordinator at the Health Promotion and Community Health Department at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut (AUB) in Lebanon and an instructor of Public Health at Phoenicia University in Lebanon. She is a graduate of the American University of Beirut where she obtained her BSc. in Nutrition and Dietetics and then her MPH in Health Promotion and Community Health. After her graduation Zahraa started working at UNRWA as part of her internship and then joined the American University of Beirut in 2013. In 2015 she joined Phoenicia University as an instructor of Public Health teaching courses in public health and population health for undergraduate students. Her areas of research interests are social inequalities in health and refugees\u2019 health and rights. Her previous work has focused on the social determinants of health of the Lebanese population and refugees in Lebanon. Currently she is performing research on the social determinants of cardiovascular diseases among the Lebanese Population.<\/p><\/div> El Hadji Yaya Kon\u00e9 est professeur adjoint en formation en ligne et p\u00e9dagogie universitaire (Facult\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9ducation \u00e0 uOttawa). Dr. Kon\u00e9 explore les enjeux de la p\u00e9dagogie num\u00e9rique disciplinaire, en lien avec l\u2019\u00e9valuation des apprentissages, la p\u00e9dagogie inclusive, l\u2019apprentissage collaboratif, la formation \u00e0 distance (FAD) transfrontali\u00e8re. Sa recherche est essentiellement qualitative, ax\u00e9e sur la th\u00e9orie ancr\u00e9e. Dr Kon\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 stagiaire en FAD \u00e0 la T\u00e9l\u00e9-universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec (T\u00e9luq), charg\u00e9 de cours \u00e0 la Facult\u00e9 des sciences de l\u2019\u00e9ducation \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, conseiller p\u00e9dagogique \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec en Abitibi-T\u00e9miscamingue (UQAT) et professeur \u00e0 l\u2019unit\u00e9 d\u2019enseignement et de recherche en \u00e9ducation de la m\u00eame universit\u00e9, o\u00f9 il a d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 et dirig\u00e9 le microprogramme de 2e<\/sup> cycle en p\u00e9dagogie de l\u2019enseignement postsecondaire.<\/p><\/div> Lavagnon Ika est professeur titulaire de gestion de projet, directeur fondateur de l\u2019Observatoire des grands projets, charg\u00e9 du dossier des partenariats avec les universit\u00e9s africaines et ex-directeur du programme MSc en gestion \u00e0 l\u2019\u00c9cole de gestion Telfer de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Ottawa.\u00a0<\/span>Ces 20 derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, il a enseign\u00e9 la gestion de projet en fran\u00e7ais et en anglais au bachelor<\/i>, \u00e0 la MSc, au MBA\/EMBA voire au doctorat (PhD), tant au Canada, en Australie, en Europe, en Afrique qu\u2019au Moyen-Orient.\u00a0<\/span>Dans le cadre de ses recherches, le professeur Ika examine diff\u00e9rents types de projets et s\u2019int\u00e9resse particuli\u00e8rement aux raisons pour lesquelles les projets tendent \u00e0 s\u2019\u00e9carter de leurs plans et connaissent ainsi des d\u00e9passements de co\u00fbts et des manques \u00e0 gagner en mati\u00e8re de retomb\u00e9es.\u00a0<\/span>Le professeur Ika est r\u00e9dacteur en chef adjoint de la prestigieuse revue International Journal of Project Management<\/i> et membre des conseils acad\u00e9miques des associations internationales de gestion de projet reconnues, le Project Management Institute (PMI) bas\u00e9 aux \u00c9tats-Unis et l\u2019International Project Management Association (IPMA) en Europe. Il a re\u00e7u de nombreuses distinctions tr\u00e8s convoit\u00e9es, dont le prix du chercheur de l\u2019ann\u00e9e 2017 de l\u2019IPMA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div> Peter Milley est professeur agr\u00e9g\u00e9 \u00e0 la Facult\u00e9 d’\u00e9ducation et directeur du Centre de recherche sur les services \u00e9ducatifs et communautaires (CRSEC) de l’Universit\u00e9 d’Ottawa. Peter enseigne et m\u00e8ne des recherches sur des sujets li\u00e9s au leadership, \u00e0 l’administration, aux politiques et \u00e0 l’\u00e9valuation en \u00e9ducation. Ses recherches r\u00e9centes, financ\u00e9es par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines, ont port\u00e9 sur le leadership de l’innovation sociale dans les universit\u00e9s canadiennes. Peter \u00e9tudie \u00e9galement les m\u00e9thodes inclusives et participatives pour mener des activit\u00e9s d’\u00e9valuation dans des contextes d’innovation sociale et de d\u00e9veloppement international. Avant de se joindre \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9, Peter a \u00e9t\u00e9 conseiller principal dans la fonction publique f\u00e9d\u00e9rale canadienne sur une vari\u00e9t\u00e9 de r\u00e9formes administratives \u00e0 l’\u00e9chelle de la fonction publique et de projets de d\u00e9veloppement international ciblant les r\u00e9formes de la gouvernance.<\/p><\/div> Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh is Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies at University College London (UCL) where she is Co-Director of UCL’s\u00a0Migration Research Unit<\/a>, and is the Founder and Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies\u00a0Refuge in a Moving World<\/a>\u00a0research network across UCL. Drawing on critical theoretical approaches, her research focuses on local and Southern-led\u00a0responses to conflict-induced displacement, with a particular focus on the Middle East and the Caribbean (see www.refugeehosts.org<\/a> and www.southernresponses.org<\/a>). As part of this research, she is particularly interested in better understanding refugee-led responses to displacement, and the roles that members of local faith communities across the global South play in promoting the rights of people who have been displaced. Elena\u2019s recent publications include\u00a0The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(Syracuse University Press, 2014),\u00a0South-South Educational Migration, Humanitarianism and Development: Views from the Caribbean, North Africa and the Middle East<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a><\/i>(Routledge, 2015),\u00a0Refuge in a Moving World: Refugee and migrant journeys across disciplines<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(editor, UCL Press, 2020, Open Access), and ‘Recentering the South in Studies of Migration<\/a>‘ (the introduction to the special issue of Migration and Society<\/i> of the same title, Open Access).<\/p><\/div> Andr\u00e9 Vellino est professeur associ\u00e9 \u00e0 l’\u00c9cole des sciences de l’information de l’Universit\u00e9 d’Ottawa. Il a plus de vingt-six ans d’exp\u00e9rience dans le domaine de la technologie informatique pour la repr\u00e9sentation et le raisonnement de l’information. Avant d’\u00eatre nomm\u00e9 \u00e0 son poste universitaire en 2012, il a pass\u00e9 six ans \u00e0 la Biblioth\u00e8que nationale des sciences du Canada du CNRC (anciennement l’Institut canadien de l’information scientifique et technique – ICIST) \u00e0 travailler \u00e0 l’avancement des technologies des syst\u00e8mes de recommandation dans le contexte d’une biblioth\u00e8que num\u00e9rique. Dans le secteur priv\u00e9, il a notamment con\u00e7u et d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 un logiciel de traitement du langage naturel pour l’analyse des courriels (pour Entrust) et d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 un logiciel de programmation de logique des contraintes (pour Nortel Networks). Andr\u00e9 est \u00e9galement nomm\u00e9 transversalement au d\u00e9partement d’informatique, affili\u00e9 \u00e0 la facult\u00e9 de l’Institute for Science, Society and Policy et membre fondateur de l\u2019Academie pour la pleine conscience et les \u00e9tudes contemplatives de l’Universit\u00e9 d’Ottawa.<\/p><\/div> Ruth Kane is Director of Graduate Studies (Anglophone) within the Faculty of Education. Her research focuses on the preparation of teachers for urban schools and equity in teaching and teacher education in Canada and internationally. She leads annual international practicums to Uganda through which Canadian teachers engage in teaching within a very different context. Ruth is co-Director of the R\u00e9seau de Savoir sur l\u2019\u00c9quit\u00e9<\/i><\/a>| <\/i>Equity Knowledge Network\u00a0<\/i><\/a>, an Ontario-wide bilingual Knowledge Network and principal investigator in a five-year SSHRC-funded study, of how school boards, teachers, and students take up citizenship within urban schools that serve youth from indigenous and first-generation refugee and immigrant communities. She is currently co-lead in a 3-year ArcticNet-funded study of sustainable inuit-centered teacher education for Inuit Nunangat, a collaborative project bringing together researchers from five universities (uOttawa, UPEI, Memorial, Winnipeg, Queens) and the four Inuit Nunangat jurisdictions. Ruth has also recently launched a collaborative study of graduate supervision and the well-being of graduate students with colleagues internationally.<\/p><\/div>Partenaires universitaires<\/h3>\n
Organizational Partners<\/h3>\n
Co-Directrices<\/h3>\n
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<\/span><\/div>Nadia Abu-Zahra<\/h3>
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<\/span><\/div>Emily Regan Wills<\/h3>
Current Team<\/h3>\n
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<\/span><\/div>Judy El Mohtadi<\/h3>
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<\/span><\/div>Diana El Richani<\/h3>
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<\/span><\/div>Isadora Branco<\/h3>
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<\/span><\/div>Fajr Alsayed<\/h3>
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<\/span><\/div>Ursula Johansson Rivero<\/h3>
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Colleagues and Collaborators<\/h3>\n
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<\/span><\/div>Sawsan Abdulrahim<\/h3>
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<\/span><\/div>Zahraa Beydoun<\/h3>
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<\/span><\/div>El Hadji Yaya Kon\u00e9<\/h3>
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<\/span><\/div>Lavagnon Ika<\/h3>
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<\/span><\/div>Peter Milley<\/h3>
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<\/span><\/div>Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh<\/h3>
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<\/span><\/div>Andr\u00e9 Vellino<\/h3>
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<\/span><\/div>Ruth G. Kane<\/h3>
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