The activities of the second day of the International Conference on Protracted Displacement in its first part, organized by Yarmouk University via remote visual communication technology, through the Center for Studies of Refugees, Displaced Persons and Forced Migration, entitled “Protracted displacement - hopes, aspirations and solutions,” concluded yesterday, Tuesday, in cooperation with the German Jordanian University and the program Syrian Jordanian Education (EDU-Syria), Academics in Solidarity Program at Free University of Berlin (AiS), German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), German Academic Exchange Agency (DAAD), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), with support from the German University Project Office The Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and the European Union.

The conference, in its six sessions, which was held throughout the day yesterday, dealt with many themes and issues related to asylum and displacement issues and their repercussions.

In the first session, which was moderated by Dr. Anas Al-Subh, and titled the role of government institutions, civil society institutions and international non-governmental organizations towards displaced people and refugees, in which each of the Director of the Directorate of Events and Community Security / Ministry of Social Development Mahmoud Abdullah Al-Harout spoke about the role of social development in Refugee and family protection service.

Dr. Saleh Al-Kilani, as a representative of the Ministry of Interior, spoke about the Jordanian methodology and the response plan to the Syrian crisis, and dealt with the most important services provided to Syrian refugees on Jordanian lands, presenting the most important challenges to this crisis and the extension of the refugee period to about 10 years.

Hamdan Yaqoub Hamdan, Director of the Syrian Crisis Response Department / the Jordanian Ministry of Labor, talked about the document of the Jordanian Covenant and the Jordanian labor market within the response plan to create job opportunities for Jordanians and refugees and the basics of entrepreneurial work.

The Director of Operations at the Noor Al-Hussein Foundation, Issam Al-Brahmeh, presented the most important services provided by the Family Care Department at the Noor Al-Hussein Foundation for Refugees and the Local Community, and Eng. Maher Al-Qabaj from the Jordan River Foundation presented the Foundation’s role towards refugees in Jordan and the most important services provided to refugees in various development sectors

Lawyer Rami Kwaider presented a paper on legal services for vulnerable groups and ways to protect them, while May Nasrallah, a youth advisor to the Norwegian Refugee Council in Jordan, presented a working paper on the role of the Norwegian Foundation towards refugees from underdeveloped countries of the world and the services provided to them.

Haidar Al-Harahsheh from the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation presented a paper on the ministry’s role in the response plan, 2022, pointing to Jordan’s need for 2.2 billion annually to provide the basic needs of refugees and the host community, indicating that a number of the 12 international protocols concluded by the ministry, also pointing out. Noting that the Ministry, in light of the Corona crisis, is working to update its plan to confront the virus in the fields of health, education and social protection.

In the second session, which was titled the current situation of displacement in the Middle East, and moderated by Dr. Florian Costal, Center for International Cooperation for Professional and Institutional Support, in which Dr. Ralph Wilde College of London presented a research paper entitled Violent Reactions Against Human Rights. Asylum and Immigration Research, Turkey, who presented a research paper entitled: The demise of the international refugee system.

Joud Al-Sajidi, from the Information and Research Center at the King Hussein Bin Talal Foundation, presented a paper entitled Dreaming to Return to the Homeland: Gender Experiences of Syrian Adolescents Refugees in Azraq Camp - Jordan, while Lana Setad from the Durable Solutions Platform Foundation, Jordan - spoke about enhancing the future prospects of refugees. Syrians in the region.

Dr. Canefei Nergis from Yuke University in Canada presented a paper entitled Displacement and Robbing of Non-Traditional Minorities in the Middle East, and Dr. Farah Taji from Al-Balqa Applied University presented a paper entitled Foucault's Concept of Power and Helping International NGOs for Refugees in Jordan.

And in the third session, entitled Social Cohesion and Security, which was led by Dr. Badr Al-Madhi, from the Social Service Department at the German Jordanian University, in which each of Anwar Khuwailih from the Jordan University of Science and Technology presented a paper entitled Community Affiliation: The Experience of Syrian Refugees in the Ramtha Districts Dr. Gulin Samari of Columbia University, Millman School of Public Health, presented a paper entitled: Empowerment of Women in Protracted Conflicts: The Importance of the Agency for Syrian Refugees, and Minwit Zard of Columbia University, and presented a research paper entitled Social Cohesion: One Part of the Integration Equation.

During the fourth session, entitled Labor Market Integration and Entrepreneurship, which was moderated by Dr. Alaa Khalifa, and in which Saba Al-Qantar, from Erasmus University Rotterdam, spoke, where she presented a paper titled Survival Ways, Crossing Barriers: Refugee Entrepreneurship and Communication.

Dalia Othman from Princess Sumaya University for Technology presented a study on the entrepreneurial motivations of refugees: a comparative study between Jordanian citizens and Syrian refugees.

Dr. Sigrid James, Franziska and Julian Trostmann from the University of Kassel presented a paper entitled Integration of Immigrant Women into the Labor Market and the Role of Social Workers - Key findings from a pilot project in Germany.

Professor Haya Dajani from the Mohammed bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship (MBSC), and Dr. Aida Al-Saeed, King Hussein Information and Research Center (IRCKHF), presented a paper entitled: Resilience Performance: Syrian Refugee Artisans in Jordan.

Samar Abdel-Majeed, from the British University in Egypt, presented a paper entitled: Determinants of Integration of the Labor Market for Refugees: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon and Jordan

And in the fifth session, which carried out capacity development in non-formal higher education institutions: Models from Northern Syria, and moderated by Dr. Florian Costal, from the International Cooperation Center for Professional and Institutional Support, and in which Dr. Julian Millikan from the Council of Academics at Risk from the Free University of Berlin spoke On supporting and developing professional and institutional capacities in non-formal higher education institutions: Examples from northern Syria.

Dr. Maher Jaisry from the Council of Academics at Risk also spoke about institutional quality support and assurance, while Dr. Fateh Shaban from the Council of Academics at Risk presented a paper entitled The Provider of Academic Development Support.

Dr. Adnan Snow, from the Academics Council, was also presented at risk. Research entitled: Supporting student success, while Dr. Israa Mashkour from the Council of Academics at Risk presented a paper entitled: Presentation of Support for Gender Equality.

And in the sixth and final session, entitled Displaced Students and Higher Education: Best Practices and Lessons Learned, which was moderated by Dr. Vera Aksionova, from the Academics Foundation in Solidarity - Free University of Berlin, in which Dr. Anna Corte Real, Dr. Clara Cruz Santos and Dr. Thiago Nunes, from the University of Coimbra Medical School - Portugal, presented a paper entitled: Migrants face challenges in accessing targeted school education systems - a Portuguese approach

Daad Nazzal, from the German Jordanian University, also spoke about the integration of Syrian refugees into higher education systems in the host countries: a comparative study between Germany and Jordan. Dr. Moza Al-Rabban, from the Arab Scientific Society Organization, presented a paper entitled: The Mutual Essential Role of Social Peace and Education in the Post-Conflict Period: The Case of Syria. And Dr. Asli Tilly, from Siegen University, spoke of a paper titled Universities of Peace: Overcoming the civil clause against armaments.

It is noteworthy that the conference will complete its second part, on the third and seventeenth of next month, and through the technology of remote visual communication, through a series of research and studies related to issues of asylum and displacement.