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    <title>Forced Migration Online Documentaries</title>
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    <description>Films about the situation of forced migrants worldwide produced by partner organisations of Forced Migration Online (Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development).</description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:32:52 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Silk Road to Guantanamo: The Story of Adel Hakimjan</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/25459972-Silk-Road-to-Guantanamo-The-Story-of-Adel-Hakimjan</link>
      <description>This film shows the plight of ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate Adel Hakimjan, a Chinese Uighur, who was abused, persecuted, traded, and falsely imprisoned. This film shows the plight of ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate Adel Hakimjan, a Chinese Uighur, who was abused, persecuted, traded, and falsely imprisoned. Adel, fled his home and family in north-west China in 1999, having been harassed, tortured and imprisoned by the Chinese. He left Xinjiang province and in 2001 in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region he was sold to American forces by bounty hunters and ended up at a detention facility in Kandahar and then taken to Guantanamo.</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>This film shows the plight of ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate Adel Hakimjan, a Chinese Uighur, who was abused, persecuted, traded, and falsely imprisoned. This film shows the plight of ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate Adel Hakimjan, a Chinese Uighur, who was abused, persecuted, traded, and falsely imprisoned. Adel, fled his home and family in north-west China in 1999, having been harassed, tortured and imprisoned by the Chinese. He left Xinjiang province and in 2001 in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region he was sold to American forces by bounty hunters and ended up at a detention facility in Kandahar and then taken to Guantanamo.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This film shows the plight of ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate Adel Hakimjan, a Chinese Uighur, who was abused, persecuted, traded, and falsely imprisoned. This film shows the plight of ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate Adel Hakimjan, a Chinese Uighur, who was abused, persecuted, traded, and falsely imprisoned. Adel, fled his home and family in north-west China in 1999, having been harassed, tortured and imprisoned by the Chinese. He left Xinjiang province and in 2001 in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region he was sold to American forces by bounty hunters and ended up at a detention facility in Kandahar and then taken to Guantanamo.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:32:52 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Gender Against Men</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/25159978-Gender-Against-Men</link>
      <description>Gender Against Men exposes the hidden world of sexual and gender-based violence against men in the conflicts of the Great Lakes Region. Gender Against Men exposes the hidden world of sexual and gender-based violence against men in the conflicts of the Great Lakes Region. The film demonstrates how male identities are under attack and how rape when used as a weapon of war affects husbands, fathers, brothers and the community. The film is a production of Refugee Law Project, Faculty of Law, Makerere University.</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>Gender Against Men exposes the hidden world of sexual and gender-based violence against men in the conflicts of the Great Lakes Region. Gender Against Men exposes the hidden world of sexual and gender-based violence against men in the conflicts of the Great Lakes Region. The film demonstrates how male identities are under attack and how rape when used as a weapon of war affects husbands, fathers, brothers and the community. The film is a production of Refugee Law Project, Faculty of Law, Makerere University.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Gender Against Men exposes the hidden world of sexual and gender-based violence against men in the conflicts of the Great Lakes Region. Gender Against Men exposes the hidden world of sexual and gender-based violence against men in the conflicts of the Great Lakes Region. The film demonstrates how male identities are under attack and how rape when used as a weapon of war affects husbands, fathers, brothers and the community. The film is a production of Refugee Law Project, Faculty of Law, Makerere University.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:12:06 -0700</pubDate>
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      <itunes:keywords>protection, uganda, sexual violence, 110</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>Interview with Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/24764638-Interview-with-Uighur-leader-Rebiya-Kadeer</link>
      <description>Rebiya Kadeer (Rabiya Kadeer), president of the World Uyghur Congress, the most significant Uighur leader. Rebiya Kadeer (Rabiya Kadeer), Washington DC, USA. Left Xinjiang in 2005 for Washington DC and now is the president of the World Uyghur Congress, the most significant Uighur leader, either in China or abroad, and a hate figure for the Chinese government.</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>Rebiya Kadeer (Rabiya Kadeer), president of the World Uyghur Congress, the most significant Uighur leader. Rebiya Kadeer (Rabiya Kadeer), Washington DC, USA. Left Xinjiang in 2005 for Washington DC and now is the president of the World Uyghur Congress, the most significant Uighur leader, either in China or abroad, and a hate figure for the Chinese government.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Rebiya Kadeer (Rabiya Kadeer), president of the World Uyghur Congress, the most significant Uighur leader. Rebiya Kadeer (Rabiya Kadeer), Washington DC, USA. Left Xinjiang in 2005 for Washington DC and now is the president of the World Uyghur Congress, the most significant Uighur leader, either in China or abroad, and a hate figure for the Chinese government.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:03:53 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Yemen: Refugees crossing the Gulf of Aden</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/23556760-Yemen-Refugees-crossing-the-Gulf-of-Aden</link>
      <description>A film reporting how thousands of people risk their lives to cross the Gulf of Aden to escape from conflict, violence, drought and poverty. A film reporting how thousands of people risk their lives to cross the Gulf of Aden to escape from conflict, violence, drought and poverty. During 2007, almost 30,000 took the dangerous voyage to seek relative safety in Yemen. Due to the escalation of the conflict in Somalia and the food crisis in parts of the Horn of Africa, more and more people are joining the already large refugee and migrant population in Yemen. During the first five months of 2008 over 20,000 arrived, more than double the number of arrivals in the same period last year. Produced by M&#233;decins Sans Fronti&#232;res, Spain.</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>A film reporting how thousands of people risk their lives to cross the Gulf of Aden to escape from conflict, violence, drought and poverty. A film reporting how thousands of people risk their lives to cross the Gulf of Aden to escape from conflict, violence, drought and poverty. During 2007, almost 30,000 took the dangerous voyage to seek relative safety in Yemen. Due to the escalation of the conflict in Somalia and the food crisis in parts of the Horn of Africa, more and more people are joining the already large refugee and migrant population in Yemen. During the first five months of 2008 over 20,000 arrived, more than double the number of arrivals in the same period last year. Produced by M&#233;decins Sans Fronti&#232;res, Spain.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>A film reporting how thousands of people risk their lives to cross the Gulf of Aden to escape from conflict, violence, drought and poverty. A film reporting how thousands of people risk their lives to cross the Gulf of Aden to escape from conflict, violence, drought and poverty. During 2007, almost 30,000 took the dangerous voyage to seek relative safety in Yemen. Due to the escalation of the conflict in Somalia and the food crisis in parts of the Horn of Africa, more and more people are joining the already large refugee and migrant population in Yemen. During the first five months of 2008 over 20,000 arrived, more than double the number of arrivals in the same period last year. Produced by M&#233;decins Sans Fronti&#232;res, Spain.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:01:16 -0700</pubDate>
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      <itunes:keywords>Africa, middle east, somalia, Yemen, human smuggling, forced migration, smuggling of persons, m&#233;decins sans fronti&#232;res</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>Iraqis in Egypt: Time is Running Out</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/23556763-Iraqis-in-Egypt-Time-is-Running-Out</link>
      <description>This documentary film looks at the lives of six Iraqi families who have been forced to flee their homes and are now living in Cairo. This documentary film looks at the lives of six Iraqi families who have been forced to flee their homes and are now living as refugees in the massive urban sprawl of Cairo. As the years pass by, their situations are becoming increasingly desperate, with little or no rights in their country of first asylum.</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>This documentary film looks at the lives of six Iraqi families who have been forced to flee their homes and are now living in Cairo. This documentary film looks at the lives of six Iraqi families who have been forced to flee their homes and are now living as refugees in the massive urban sprawl of Cairo. As the years pass by, their situations are becoming increasingly desperate, with little or no rights in their country of first asylum.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This documentary film looks at the lives of six Iraqi families who have been forced to flee their homes and are now living in Cairo. This documentary film looks at the lives of six Iraqi families who have been forced to flee their homes and are now living as refugees in the massive urban sprawl of Cairo. As the years pass by, their situations are becoming increasingly desperate, with little or no rights in their country of first asylum.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:50:57 -0700</pubDate>
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      <itunes:keywords>Cairo, refugee, Egypt, middle east, UNHCR, Asylum, forced migration</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>3 Years On: Reconstruction and Resettlement in Aceh after the Tsunami</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/23556764-3-Years-On-Reconstruction-and-Resettlement-in-Aceh-after-the-Tsunami</link>
      <description>This film presents the views and experiences of representatives from NGO&#8217;s working in Aceh on tsunami reconstruction in 2007. This film presents the views and experiences of representatives from NGOs working in Aceh on tsunami reconstruction in 2007. By this stage the majority of reconstruction and resettlement of residents of Aceh has taken place or was close to completion. The interviews offer reflections on the completion of this process and problems that still need to be overcome.</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>This film presents the views and experiences of representatives from NGO&#8217;s working in Aceh on tsunami reconstruction in 2007. This film presents the views and experiences of representatives from NGOs working in Aceh on tsunami reconstruction in 2007. By this stage the majority of reconstruction and resettlement of residents of Aceh has taken place or was close to completion. The interviews offer reflections on the completion of this process and problems that still need to be overcome.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This film presents the views and experiences of representatives from NGO&#8217;s working in Aceh on tsunami reconstruction in 2007. This film presents the views and experiences of representatives from NGOs working in Aceh on tsunami reconstruction in 2007. By this stage the majority of reconstruction and resettlement of residents of Aceh has taken place or was close to completion. The interviews offer reflections on the completion of this process and problems that still need to be overcome.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 04:35:06 -0700</pubDate>
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      <itunes:keywords>Indonesia, asia, multimedia, reconstruction, Tsunami, forced migration, displacement, aceh, un-habitat</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>Forgotten in the Mountains: Displacement in the Highlands of Papua</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/23556766-Forgotten-in-the-Mountains-Displacement-in-the-Highlands-of-Papua</link>
      <description>This film looks at the issue of forced displacement of indigenous Papuans in (West) Papua, Indonesia. This 30 minute film looks at the issue of forced displacement of indigenous Papuans in (West) Papua, Indonesia. Papuan fears for their future have recently become focused on the issue of migration from the rest of Indonesia into their homeland. Following the failure of special autonomy since 2001 to deliver health, education and infrastructure benefits to Papuan villagers, or even a small measure of indigenous autonomy in key security and political matters, Papuans have come to feel that divide and rule sums up Jakarta&#8217;s approach across the board. Jakarta has been busily creating unwanted new regencies and provinces in Papua as well as pouring booming mineral revenues into the region. But this has merely succeeded in creating a few new elite Papuan beneficiaries of Indonesia&#8217;s endemic corruption and setting Papuans against Papuans for control of this corruption. More seriously it ha...</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>This film looks at the issue of forced displacement of indigenous Papuans in (West) Papua, Indonesia. This 30 minute film looks at the issue of forced displacement of indigenous Papuans in (West) Papua, Indonesia. Papuan fears for their future have recently become focused on the issue of migration from the rest of Indonesia into their homeland. Following the failure of special autonomy since 2001 to deliver health, education and infrastructure benefits to Papuan villagers, or even a small measure of indigenous autonomy in key security and political matters, Papuans have come to feel that divide and rule sums up Jakarta&#8217;s approach across the board. Jakarta has been busily creating unwanted new regencies and provinces in Papua as well as pouring booming mineral revenues into the region. But this has merely succeeded in creating a few new elite Papuan beneficiaries of Indonesia&#8217;s endemic corruption and setting Papuans against Papuans for control of this corruption. More seriously it has been the pretext and occasion for bringing even more potential settlers&#8212;both bureaucrats and soldiers&#8212;into Papua as new military commands as well as bureaucracies proliferate. The new demographic balance in Papua pits a large minority of settlers&#8212;both &#8220;old&#8221;, officially sponsored transmigrasi ones and ongoing &#8220;spontaneous&#8221; ones (mostly traders and small bisnis people from eastern Indonesia)&#8212;against an almost dwindling Papuan one, beset by discriminatory birth control policies, an unchecked HIV-AIDS pandemic and 45 years of repression and displacement.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This film looks at the issue of forced displacement of indigenous Papuans in (West) Papua, Indonesia. This 30 minute film looks at the issue of forced displacement of indigenous Papuans in (West) Papua, Indonesia. Papuan fears for their future have recently become focused on the issue of migration from the rest of Indonesia into their homeland. Following the failure of special autonomy since 2001 to deliver health, education and infrastructure benefits to Papuan villagers, or even a small measure of indigenous autonomy in key security and political matters, Papuans have come to feel that divide and rule sums up Jakarta&#8217;s approach across the board. Jakarta has been busily creating unwanted new regencies and provinces in Papua as well as pouring booming mineral revenues into the region. But this has merely succeeded in creating a few new elite Papuan beneficiaries of Indonesia&#8217;s endemic corruption and setting Papuans against Papuans for control of this corruption. More seriously it has been the pretext and occasion for bringing even more potential settlers&#8212;both bureaucrats and soldiers&#8212;into Papua as new military commands as well as bureaucracies proliferate. The new demographic balance in Papua pits a large minority of settlers&#8212;both &#8220;old&#8221;, officially sponsored transmigrasi ones and ongoing &#8220;spontaneous&#8221; ones (mostly traders and small bisnis people from eastern Indonesia)&#8212;against an almost dwindling Papuan one, beset by discriminatory birth control policies, an unchecked HIV-AIDS pandemic and 45 years of repression and displacement.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 04:33:44 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>West Bank Stories</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/25459975-West-Bank-Stories</link>
      <description>This 35 minute film presents the views of three Palestinians living in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. This 35 minute film presents the views of three Palestinians living in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. The Dheisheh camp was established in 1949 within the municipal boundaries of Bethlehem on 430 dunums. It has a registered population of 12,045 of which approximately 6,000 are children. The camp's residents were particularly active during the intifadah. The Israeli authorities built a fence around the camp and a metal turnstile for the main entrance, which were in place for almost eight years to prevent stone throwing at passing Israeli cars on the main Jerusalem-Hebron road. In 1995, the camp came under Palestinian Authority control, and the fence has since been removed.</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>This 35 minute film presents the views of three Palestinians living in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. This 35 minute film presents the views of three Palestinians living in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. The Dheisheh camp was established in 1949 within the municipal boundaries of Bethlehem on 430 dunums. It has a registered population of 12,045 of which approximately 6,000 are children. The camp's residents were particularly active during the intifadah. The Israeli authorities built a fence around the camp and a metal turnstile for the main entrance, which were in place for almost eight years to prevent stone throwing at passing Israeli cars on the main Jerusalem-Hebron road. In 1995, the camp came under Palestinian Authority control, and the fence has since been removed.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This 35 minute film presents the views of three Palestinians living in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. This 35 minute film presents the views of three Palestinians living in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. The Dheisheh camp was established in 1949 within the municipal boundaries of Bethlehem on 430 dunums. It has a registered population of 12,045 of which approximately 6,000 are children. The camp's residents were particularly active during the intifadah. The Israeli authorities built a fence around the camp and a metal turnstile for the main entrance, which were in place for almost eight years to prevent stone throwing at passing Israeli cars on the main Jerusalem-Hebron road. In 1995, the camp came under Palestinian Authority control, and the fence has since been removed.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:13:06 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>West Bank Stories</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/23556767-West-Bank-Stories</link>
      <description>This 35 minute film presents the views of three Palestinians living in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. This 35 minute film presents the views of three Palestinians living in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. The Dheisheh camp was established in 1949 within the municipal boundaries of Bethlehem on 430 dunums. It has a registered population of 12,045 of which approximately 6,000 are children. The camp's residents were particularly active during the intifadah. The Israeli authorities built a fence around the camp and a metal turnstile for the main entrance, which were in place for almost eight years to prevent stone throwing at passing Israeli cars on the main Jerusalem-Hebron road. In 1995, the camp came under Palestinian Authority control, and the fence has since been removed.</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>This 35 minute film presents the views of three Palestinians living in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. This 35 minute film presents the views of three Palestinians living in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. The Dheisheh camp was established in 1949 within the municipal boundaries of Bethlehem on 430 dunums. It has a registered population of 12,045 of which approximately 6,000 are children. The camp's residents were particularly active during the intifadah. The Israeli authorities built a fence around the camp and a metal turnstile for the main entrance, which were in place for almost eight years to prevent stone throwing at passing Israeli cars on the main Jerusalem-Hebron road. In 1995, the camp came under Palestinian Authority control, and the fence has since been removed.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This 35 minute film presents the views of three Palestinians living in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. This 35 minute film presents the views of three Palestinians living in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. The Dheisheh camp was established in 1949 within the municipal boundaries of Bethlehem on 430 dunums. It has a registered population of 12,045 of which approximately 6,000 are children. The camp's residents were particularly active during the intifadah. The Israeli authorities built a fence around the camp and a metal turnstile for the main entrance, which were in place for almost eight years to prevent stone throwing at passing Israeli cars on the main Jerusalem-Hebron road. In 1995, the camp came under Palestinian Authority control, and the fence has since been removed.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:13:06 -0700</pubDate>
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      <itunes:keywords>Israel, refugee, palestine, palestinians, middle east, displacement</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>Youth as Evaluators: Contested Spaces and Identity</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/25459976-Youth-as-Evaluators-Contested-Spaces-and-Identity</link>
      <description>In this documentary, young people talk about their countries and the issues that young people face there. In this documentary, young people talk about their countries and the issues that young people face there. The documentary was filmed during a gathering of young people involved in Public Achievement and similar programmes around the world (including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Finland, Netherlands, and Northern Ireland) at the Corrymeela Centre, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland 11 - 22 August 2005. The focus of the event was on training participants as evaluators of their youth programmes at home, and on creating an international network of young people interested in improving young people&#8217;s experience of being civic co-creators.</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>In this documentary, young people talk about their countries and the issues that young people face there. In this documentary, young people talk about their countries and the issues that young people face there. The documentary was filmed during a gathering of young people involved in Public Achievement and similar programmes around the world (including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Finland, Netherlands, and Northern Ireland) at the Corrymeela Centre, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland 11 - 22 August 2005. The focus of the event was on training participants as evaluators of their youth programmes at home, and on creating an international network of young people interested in improving young people&#8217;s experience of being civic co-creators.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this documentary, young people talk about their countries and the issues that young people face there. In this documentary, young people talk about their countries and the issues that young people face there. The documentary was filmed during a gathering of young people involved in Public Achievement and similar programmes around the world (including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Finland, Netherlands, and Northern Ireland) at the Corrymeela Centre, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland 11 - 22 August 2005. The focus of the event was on training participants as evaluators of their youth programmes at home, and on creating an international network of young people interested in improving young people&#8217;s experience of being civic co-creators.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:36:52 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Youth as Evaluators: Contested Spaces and Identity</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/23556768-Youth-as-Evaluators-Contested-Spaces-and-Identity</link>
      <description>In this documentary, young people talk about their countries and the issues that young people face there. In this documentary, young people talk about their countries and the issues that young people face there. The documentary was filmed during a gathering of young people involved in Public Achievement and similar programmes around the world (including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Finland, Netherlands, and Northern Ireland) at the Corrymeela Centre, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland 11 - 22 August 2005. The focus of the event was on training participants as evaluators of their youth programmes at home, and on creating an international network of young people interested in improving young people&#8217;s experience of being civic co-creators.</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>In this documentary, young people talk about their countries and the issues that young people face there. In this documentary, young people talk about their countries and the issues that young people face there. The documentary was filmed during a gathering of young people involved in Public Achievement and similar programmes around the world (including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Finland, Netherlands, and Northern Ireland) at the Corrymeela Centre, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland 11 - 22 August 2005. The focus of the event was on training participants as evaluators of their youth programmes at home, and on creating an international network of young people interested in improving young people&#8217;s experience of being civic co-creators.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this documentary, young people talk about their countries and the issues that young people face there. In this documentary, young people talk about their countries and the issues that young people face there. The documentary was filmed during a gathering of young people involved in Public Achievement and similar programmes around the world (including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Finland, Netherlands, and Northern Ireland) at the Corrymeela Centre, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland 11 - 22 August 2005. The focus of the event was on training participants as evaluators of their youth programmes at home, and on creating an international network of young people interested in improving young people&#8217;s experience of being civic co-creators.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:36:52 -0700</pubDate>
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      <itunes:keywords>video, Israel, South Africa, youth, palestine, middle east, reconciliation, jordan, identity, Northern Ireland</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>Playing Between Elephants (Trailer)</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/23556769-Playing-Between-Elephants-Trailer</link>
      <description>This is a trailer for Playing Between Elephants, a film about the people&#8217;s housing process in Geunteng Timur. This is a trailer for Playing Between Elephants, a film about the people&#8217;s housing process in Geunteng Timur. The full version can be found at: http://www.forcedmigration.org/video/playing-between-elephants/. There is an Indonesian saying that when the elephants are locked in a fight, the mousedeer would die in the middle. But in this documentary, the mousedeer does not die - instead, it manages to play between them and get what it wants. This film documents a post-tsunami and post-conflict Aceh, where an international body that is assigned to build houses, while an Acehnese village chief leads his people through the ups and downs of the ongoing reconstruction and rehabilitation process. The film very intimately shows how complicated it is to survive a traumatic event and then experience global intervention. Rebuilding a house in post-tsunami Aceh brings into play the whole ...</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>This is a trailer for Playing Between Elephants, a film about the people&#8217;s housing process in Geunteng Timur. This is a trailer for Playing Between Elephants, a film about the people&#8217;s housing process in Geunteng Timur. The full version can be found at: http://www.forcedmigration.org/video/playing-between-elephants/. There is an Indonesian saying that when the elephants are locked in a fight, the mousedeer would die in the middle. But in this documentary, the mousedeer does not die - instead, it manages to play between them and get what it wants. This film documents a post-tsunami and post-conflict Aceh, where an international body that is assigned to build houses, while an Acehnese village chief leads his people through the ups and downs of the ongoing reconstruction and rehabilitation process. The film very intimately shows how complicated it is to survive a traumatic event and then experience global intervention. Rebuilding a house in post-tsunami Aceh brings into play the whole world and forces the Acehnese people learn to deal with the friction between the global and local realms.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This is a trailer for Playing Between Elephants, a film about the people&#8217;s housing process in Geunteng Timur. This is a trailer for Playing Between Elephants, a film about the people&#8217;s housing process in Geunteng Timur. The full version can be found at: http://www.forcedmigration.org/video/playing-between-elephants/. There is an Indonesian saying that when the elephants are locked in a fight, the mousedeer would die in the middle. But in this documentary, the mousedeer does not die - instead, it manages to play between them and get what it wants. This film documents a post-tsunami and post-conflict Aceh, where an international body that is assigned to build houses, while an Acehnese village chief leads his people through the ups and downs of the ongoing reconstruction and rehabilitation process. The film very intimately shows how complicated it is to survive a traumatic event and then experience global intervention. Rebuilding a house in post-tsunami Aceh brings into play the whole world and forces the Acehnese people learn to deal with the friction between the global and local realms.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:22:31 -0800</pubDate>
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      <itunes:keywords>Indonesia, asia, Humanitarian, United Nations, reconstruction, Tsunami, rehabilitation, displacement, aceh, un-habitat, post-conflict</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>Lost Nation: Interview with Riza Bekin in Istanbul</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/23556770-Lost-Nation-Interview-with-Riza-Bekin-in-Istanbul</link>
      <description>Interview with Riza Bekin in Istanbul. Interview with Riza Bekin in Istanbul. Taken from Lost Nation, a documentary film in which five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan).</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>Interview with Riza Bekin in Istanbul. Interview with Riza Bekin in Istanbul. Taken from Lost Nation, a documentary film in which five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan).</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Interview with Riza Bekin in Istanbul. Interview with Riza Bekin in Istanbul. Taken from Lost Nation, a documentary film in which five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan).</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:39:35 -0700</pubDate>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <itunes:keywords>China, muslim, refugee, human rights, diaspora, migration, ethnicity, xinjiang, uyghur, uighur</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>Lost Nation: Interview with Anwar Rahman in Geneva</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/23556771-Lost-Nation-Interview-with-Anwar-Rahman-in-Geneva</link>
      <description>Interview with Anwar Rahman in Geneva. Interview with Anwar Rahman in Geneva. Taken from Lost Nation, a documentary film in which five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan).</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>Interview with Anwar Rahman in Geneva. Interview with Anwar Rahman in Geneva. Taken from Lost Nation, a documentary film in which five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan).</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Interview with Anwar Rahman in Geneva. Interview with Anwar Rahman in Geneva. Taken from Lost Nation, a documentary film in which five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan).</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:08:53 -0700</pubDate>
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      <itunes:keywords>China, muslim, refugee, human rights, diaspora, migration, ethnicity, xinjiang, uyghur, uighur</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>Lost Nation: Interview with Enver Tohti in London</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/23556773-Lost-Nation-Interview-with-Enver-Tohti-in-London</link>
      <description>Interview with Enver Tohti in London. Interview with Enver Tohti in London. Taken from Lost Nation, a documentary film in which five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan).</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>Interview with Enver Tohti in London. Interview with Enver Tohti in London. Taken from Lost Nation, a documentary film in which five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan).</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Interview with Enver Tohti in London. Interview with Enver Tohti in London. Taken from Lost Nation, a documentary film in which five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan).</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:09:06 -0700</pubDate>
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      <itunes:keywords>China, muslim, refugee, human rights, diaspora, migration, ethnicity, xinjiang, uyghur, uighur</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>Lost Nation: Interview with Gulamettin Emet in New York</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/23556774-Lost-Nation-Interview-with-Gulamettin-Emet-in-New-York</link>
      <description>Interview with Gulamettin Emet in New York. Interview with Gulamettin Emet in New York. Taken from Lost Nation, a documentary film in which five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan).</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>Interview with Gulamettin Emet in New York. Interview with Gulamettin Emet in New York. Taken from Lost Nation, a documentary film in which five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan).</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Interview with Gulamettin Emet in New York. Interview with Gulamettin Emet in New York. Taken from Lost Nation, a documentary film in which five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan).</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:09:20 -0700</pubDate>
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      <itunes:keywords>China, muslim, refugee, human rights, diaspora, migration, ethnicity, xinjiang, uyghur, uighur</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>Lost Nation: Interview with Enver Can in Munich</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/23556775-Lost-Nation-Interview-with-Enver-Can-in-Munich</link>
      <description>Interview with Enver Can in Munich. Interview with Enver Can in Munich. He left in Xinjiang in the 1960s for Afghanistan then Turkey before moving to Germany. He discusses personal migration and treatment of Uyghurs in Afghanistan and China. Taken from Lost Nation, a documentary film in which five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan).</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>Interview with Enver Can in Munich. Interview with Enver Can in Munich. He left in Xinjiang in the 1960s for Afghanistan then Turkey before moving to Germany. He discusses personal migration and treatment of Uyghurs in Afghanistan and China. Taken from Lost Nation, a documentary film in which five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan).</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Interview with Enver Can in Munich. Interview with Enver Can in Munich. He left in Xinjiang in the 1960s for Afghanistan then Turkey before moving to Germany. He discusses personal migration and treatment of Uyghurs in Afghanistan and China. Taken from Lost Nation, a documentary film in which five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan).</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:09:35 -0700</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>Forced Migration Online Documentaries</itunes:author>
      <itunes:keywords>China, muslim, refugee, human rights, diaspora, migration, ethnicity, xinjiang, uyghur, uighur</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>Lost Nation: Stories from the Uyghur diaspora</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/23556777-Lost-Nation-Stories-from-the-Uyghur-diaspora</link>
      <description>A documentary film in which Five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan). A documentary film in which Five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan). One of China's fifty-five nationalities, Uyghurs are a Turkic-Muslim ethnicity from East Turkestan. Reoccupied by the Qing Dynasty in the mid-18th century, this region had become a Chinese province named Xinjiang in 1884 and in 1955, after the communist takeover in late 1949, was reorganized as the Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region. Claiming Xinjiang as their historical homeland, Uyghurs have tried to gain independence and set up their own state but failed repeatedly. Considering them a separatist and splittist group, Beijing has used a variety of means to crush any sign of restiveness among Uyghurs.</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>A documentary film in which Five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan). A documentary film in which Five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan). One of China's fifty-five nationalities, Uyghurs are a Turkic-Muslim ethnicity from East Turkestan. Reoccupied by the Qing Dynasty in the mid-18th century, this region had become a Chinese province named Xinjiang in 1884 and in 1955, after the communist takeover in late 1949, was reorganized as the Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region. Claiming Xinjiang as their historical homeland, Uyghurs have tried to gain independence and set up their own state but failed repeatedly. Considering them a separatist and splittist group, Beijing has used a variety of means to crush any sign of restiveness among Uyghurs.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>A documentary film in which Five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan). A documentary film in which Five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan). One of China's fifty-five nationalities, Uyghurs are a Turkic-Muslim ethnicity from East Turkestan. Reoccupied by the Qing Dynasty in the mid-18th century, this region had become a Chinese province named Xinjiang in 1884 and in 1955, after the communist takeover in late 1949, was reorganized as the Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region. Claiming Xinjiang as their historical homeland, Uyghurs have tried to gain independence and set up their own state but failed repeatedly. Considering them a separatist and splittist group, Beijing has used a variety of means to crush any sign of restiveness among Uyghurs.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <itunes:author>Forced Migration Online Documentaries</itunes:author>
      <itunes:keywords>China, muslim, refugee, human rights, diaspora, migration, ethnicity, xinjiang, uyghur, uighur</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>Chishima: Frontiers of the San Francisco Treaty in Hokkaido</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/23556779-Chishima-Frontiers-of-the-San-Francisco-Treaty-in-Hokkaido</link>
      <description>A documentary film about The &#8216;Northern Territories&#8217; Dispute between Japan and Russia. A documentary film about The &#8216;Northern Territories&#8217; Dispute between Japan and Russia. Japan&#8217;s northern frontier with Russia has been unstable since Russians and Japanese first penetrated into those areas and encountered each other in the early nineteenth century. The two areas in dispute historically have been the large island of Sakhalin, off the eastern coast of Siberia and due north of Hokkaido, and the chain of Kurile islands (Chishima or &#8216;a thousand islands&#8217; in Japanese), stretching from the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula to the north-eastern coast of Hokkaido. Between 1855 and 1875 Sakhalin was disputed territory and the Russian-Japanese boundary lay between Urup and Etorofu islands in the Kurile chain. Between 1875 and 1905 Russia possessed all of Sakhalin and Japan all of the Kuriles. A result of the Japanese victory in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5 was that Japan took possession of the ...</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>A documentary film about The &#8216;Northern Territories&#8217; Dispute between Japan and Russia. A documentary film about The &#8216;Northern Territories&#8217; Dispute between Japan and Russia. Japan&#8217;s northern frontier with Russia has been unstable since Russians and Japanese first penetrated into those areas and encountered each other in the early nineteenth century. The two areas in dispute historically have been the large island of Sakhalin, off the eastern coast of Siberia and due north of Hokkaido, and the chain of Kurile islands (Chishima or &#8216;a thousand islands&#8217; in Japanese), stretching from the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula to the north-eastern coast of Hokkaido. Between 1855 and 1875 Sakhalin was disputed territory and the Russian-Japanese boundary lay between Urup and Etorofu islands in the Kurile chain. Between 1875 and 1905 Russia possessed all of Sakhalin and Japan all of the Kuriles. A result of the Japanese victory in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5 was that Japan took possession of the southern half of Sakhalin, while retaining the Kuriles. With the Japanese defeat in 1945 Japan lost southern Sakhalin to the Soviet Union, which also took control of the Kuriles, including both the southern Kurile islands of Etorofu and Kunashiri. Soviet troops also invaded the far smaller islands of Shikotan and the Habomai group, which had been administered as part of Hokkaido. After the war the Japanese Government first of all made a two-island claim (Shikotan and Habomai) and later a four-island claim (including Etorofu and Kunashiri). A settlement that would have returned Shikotan and Habomai to Japan was almost achieved in 1956, but was frustrated by a US intervention. As a result, no peace treaty has yet been signed between Japan and Russia (nor was it between Japan and the Soviet Union). Despite the ending of the Cold War, a settlement of the dispute continues to prove elusive. Successive Japanese governments have held out for a maximal four-island return solution, while successive Soviet and Russian governments have been too vulnerable to nationalist criticism to risk giving up territory beyond what would be involved in a two-island return solution. This territorial dispute is bound up with fisheries questions and with the question of Russian access to the Pacific through the straits between the Kurile islands. Population on the islands, however, is sparse, and the islands have little in the way of natural resources. The dispute should be regarded as an extreme example of a territorial issue where national pride on both sides has been allowed to prevail over economic and political rationality as well as common sense.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>A documentary film about The &#8216;Northern Territories&#8217; Dispute between Japan and Russia. A documentary film about The &#8216;Northern Territories&#8217; Dispute between Japan and Russia. Japan&#8217;s northern frontier with Russia has been unstable since Russians and Japanese first penetrated into those areas and encountered each other in the early nineteenth century. The two areas in dispute historically have been the large island of Sakhalin, off the eastern coast of Siberia and due north of Hokkaido, and the chain of Kurile islands (Chishima or &#8216;a thousand islands&#8217; in Japanese), stretching from the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula to the north-eastern coast of Hokkaido. Between 1855 and 1875 Sakhalin was disputed territory and the Russian-Japanese boundary lay between Urup and Etorofu islands in the Kurile chain. Between 1875 and 1905 Russia possessed all of Sakhalin and Japan all of the Kuriles. A result of the Japanese victory in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5 was that Japan took possession of the southern half of Sakhalin, while retaining the Kuriles. With the Japanese defeat in 1945 Japan lost southern Sakhalin to the Soviet Union, which also took control of the Kuriles, including both the southern Kurile islands of Etorofu and Kunashiri. Soviet troops also invaded the far smaller islands of Shikotan and the Habomai group, which had been administered as part of Hokkaido. After the war the Japanese Government first of all made a two-island claim (Shikotan and Habomai) and later a four-island claim (including Etorofu and Kunashiri). A settlement that would have returned Shikotan and Habomai to Japan was almost achieved in 1956, but was frustrated by a US intervention. As a result, no peace treaty has yet been signed between Japan and Russia (nor was it between Japan and the Soviet Union). Despite the ending of the Cold War, a settlement of the dispute continues to prove elusive. Successive Japanese governments have held out for a maximal four-island return solution, while successive Soviet and Russian governments have been too vulnerable to nationalist criticism to risk giving up territory beyond what would be involved in a two-island return solution. This territorial dispute is bound up with fisheries questions and with the question of Russian access to the Pacific through the straits between the Kurile islands. Population on the islands, however, is sparse, and the islands have little in the way of natural resources. The dispute should be regarded as an extreme example of a territorial issue where national pride on both sides has been allowed to prevail over economic and political rationality as well as common sense.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 08:37:01 -0700</pubDate>
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      <itunes:keywords>refugee, japanese, islands, migration, idp, forced, displacement, kuril, chishima, nemuro</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>Mitrovica: North and South of a Divided City</title>
      <link>http://odeo.com./episodes/23556782-Mitrovica-North-and-South-of-a-Divided-City</link>
      <description>A documentary film about reconcilliation and reconstruction in Mitrovica, a city in northern Kosovo, Serbia.</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>A documentary film about reconcilliation and reconstruction in Mitrovica, a city in northern Kosovo, Serbia.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>A documentary film about reconcilliation and reconstruction in Mitrovica, a city in northern Kosovo, Serbia.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 06:27:32 -0700</pubDate>
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      <itunes:keywords>albania, refugee, lead, kosovo, migrant, Serbia, migration, roma, poisoning, idp, forced, World Health Organization, mitrovica, internally displaced person, unmik, trepca, european stability initiative</itunes:keywords>
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