The global refugee crisis threatens liberal world order.
From DAS SMACC, Vera Sistenich explains why it is critical that we care about the global refugee crisis. The global refugee crisis exemplifies some of the greatest challenges facing our global institutions and liberal world order today.
From human rights, to xenophobia, sexism and economic protectionism, terrorism and climate change. National and international responses to the refugee crisis are sculpting moral and political norms around the globe.
Evidently, it is critical that we care about the refugee crisis. After all, it exemplifies some of the greatest challenges to our social order.
As Hannah Arendt, the German-born Jewish political theorist wrote, “The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. …[T]hinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down”.
Ultimately, it is critical that we think deeply about our attitudes and policies towards refugees, wherever we come from.
Tune in to an engaging and informative talk by Vera Sistenich, as she challenges us to consider how the global refugee crisis threatens liberal world order.
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Vera Sistenich
Dr Vera Sistenich is an emergency medicine specialist in Australia, where her areas of interest include Aboriginal health, medical education and the development of physician training in the field of international emergency medicine. She gained her medical degree at the University of Oxford, and a masters of public health at Harvard University. Outside Australia, she has clinical experience in China, DRCongo, Nepal, Peru, South Africa, Vietnam and the UK. She has also worked with asylum seekers both at the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre in the Australian Indian Ocean territories, and on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. In 2013-2014, she was Health Policy Advisor to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland.
