{"id":2897,"date":"2013-03-12T09:40:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T09:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bothness.uber.space\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2013-03-20T23:28:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T23:28:25","slug":"a-talk-about-curent-trends-in-forced-displacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/?p=2897","title":{"rendered":"A talk about curent trends in forced displacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Dear Friends,<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1362592059091_17113\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I would like to tell you about our latest UNA talk  on Friday 15 March at 1pm in the Friends Meeting House. Roland Schilling from  the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) will talk about curent trends in forced  displacement which are challenges for the UNHCR &#8211; with hundreds of thousands of  people around the world becoming internally and externally displaced because of  war and chaos. How does the UN Agency cope with this?\u00a0 Do come along to the  talk on Friday 15 March to find out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1362592059091_17134\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Best wishes,<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1362592059091_17138\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1362592059091_17137\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Marguerite\u00a0 Finn <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Vice-Chair UNA Norwich &amp; District  Branch <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">T<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">el: 01603-722880<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Below is a short biographical note about  Roland<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><!--more--><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1362592059091_17118\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1362592059091_17123\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1362592059091_17122\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Roland Schilling took up his post as UNHCR  Representative in London in July 2009.\u00a0  He arrived in the UK after four years in Ankara as the refugee agency\u2019s  Deputy Representative, where he oversaw refugee protection activities and  supported the Turkish Government in establishing a national asylum system.\u00a0 From 2002 &#8211; 2005 he served as Deputy  Representative for UNHCR in Sri Lanka, where he managed field activities and  re-integration support to internally displaced persons.\u00a0 Following the tsunami disaster he  coordinated the UN humanitarian work in the vital shelter sector. <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1362592059091_17124\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1362592059091_17126\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Roland Schilling began his work with UNHCR in  Hong Kong monitoring and advising the government on the status determination of  Vietnamese boat people (1990 &#8211; 1991).\u00a0  He also worked as a Protection Officer in Sana\u2019a, Republic of Yemen (1995  &#8211; 1997) and opened UNHCR\u2019s office in Chisinau, Moldova where he was posted from 1997 &#8211; 1998. <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1362592059091_17129\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1362592059091_17131\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">A Dutch national, Roland Schilling was born  1961 in M\u00fclheim an der Ruhr, Germany and educated at the Freie University in  Berlin.\u00a0 He holds an advanced degree  in Political Science.\u00a0 He is married  and has two children.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, I would like to tell you about our latest UNA talk on Friday 15 March at 1pm in the Friends Meeting House. 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