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Webinar: Giving a Voice to Refugee Community Leaders – Leadership Experiences in Ireland in the late 1990's and Lebanon in 2020

Dates
Friday, June 19, 2020 - 12:00 to 13:00
Location
Online
Contact
OUBS Events Team

Refugees are often portrayed as victims in the media, and their voices are seldom heard.

To mark the 2020 refugee week, CVSL are inviting people to join them and hear the leadership experiences of refugee community leaders in a free online webinar.

Kensika Monshengwo, Integration Officer, Immigrant Council of Ireland, will share insights from his leadership of the Association of Asylum seekers in Ireland in the late 1990s.

Jihad Saab, Student Support Officer, Kiron Open Higher Education gGmbH Lebanon, will interview refugee community leaders Khalil Dougaiman and Muhamad al Homsi.

This meeting will be hosted by Kiron via Zoom. Please note that by clicking the 'register now' button that you will be redirected to Zoom to register your place.

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Chair

Professor Siv Vangen

Professor Siv Vangen

Founding Director of the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership (CVSL) and Professor of Collaborative Leadership.

Presenters

Kensika Monshengwo

Kensika Monshengwo

Kensika Monshengwo was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and holds a postgraduate degree from the Sorbonne in Paris (1995); his research focused on “The Americanisation of young people of African descent in the Parisian suburbs”. Kensika has lived in Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland, USA and Ireland.

Kensika has worked with the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism, under the aegis of the Department of Justice, as Training and Resources Officer; he has extensive experience in Intercultural Training and has worked primarily with decision-makers from government departments, service providers, private sector employers, media organisations and non-governmental organisations in Ireland and abroad. He has also written and disseminated a wide range of advocacy and training materials.

Kensika also took on the role of Acting Director of the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism for a full year; during which time he provided support and advice to the Department of Justice in their effort to mainstream ethnic diversity policies and legislation into public bodies.

As Integration Officer with the Immigrant Council of Ireland, Kensika is involved in monitoring and supporting political participation of migrants, taking part in the implementation of local migrant integration strategies, building new relationships, both regionally and locally, as well as liaising on relevant integration projects.

 

Jihad Saab

Jihad Saab is the Student Support Officer at Kiron Lebanon.

Jihad worked as an Education and Higher Education Project Officer with Stitching Spark for the past four years after completing a Bachelor of Computer Science at the Global University.