Crisis & Conflicts – Page 2 – Global Student Square

College-bound high schoolers gain new perspective after natural disasters

November 19, 2017
Kellen Browning
Crisis & Conflicts, Environment, News, Top Stories, USA

For high school seniors, the impending college or gap year experience can consume one’s mind, and becomes the theme of every conversation. But for students affected by recent natural disasters, the focus of senior year has shifted.

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VIDEO: High school students help Houston recover from Hurricane Harvey

November 10, 2017
Kellen Browning
Crisis & Conflicts, Environment, News, Top Stories, USA, Videos

Ronald Parker, 65, lost his home for the third time during Hurricane Harvey. So did Rabbi Barry Gelman of United Orthodox Synagogue. Parker and Gelman were two of many Houston residents who received five days of assistance and support from students at Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles, who traveled to Houston to help rebuild.

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‘You just gotta get on’ — how foreigners in South Korea balance daily life, fears over military tensions

October 19, 2017
Beatrice
Asia, Crisis & Conflicts, Immigration, Interview, News, Politics, South Korea, Top Stories

A series of nuclear tests by North Korea over the past year — including its sixth and largest test of a hydrogen bomb on Sept. 3, which prompted UN sanctions — have spiked worry among South Korean citizens. We spoke to three teachers at Chadwick International School in Songdo about how they are dealing with their fears, their jobs and the concerns of loved ones back home.

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OPINION: Resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict, one salad at a time

October 11, 2017
Phillicity Uriarte-Jones
Crisis & Conflicts, Culture, Justice & Equality, Opinion, Top Stories

Yes, this may have just been an order at a food court in California, more than 7,500 miles away from Tel Aviv. But suddenly I felt as if I had to decide on my own two-state solution.

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From Honduras to Yolo County to freedom: G.E.’s journey

March 28, 2017
Meghan Bobrowsky
Crisis & Conflicts, Immigration, Justice & Equality, News, Top Stories, USA

Fourteen-year-old G.E. — referred to only by his initials because he is a minor — fled Honduras to escape an abusive family situation, traveling over 1,400 miles from his native country to reach Texas. Upon entering the United States, however, he was jailed as an undocumented immigrant.

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London terror attack touches high school students at home, abroad

Sano, who previously wrote for GSS about a March 2016 terror attack in Brussels, said that she was "immediately reminded ... about fear, resilience, and compassion. "Now that the attack has happened in my own city, I’ve realized it’s really a mixture of all these three emotions that consumes the community."

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Here Today project quotes Trump on #RefugeeBan: ‘It’s not going to be pretty’

January 29, 2017
Beatrice
Cities, Crisis & Conflicts, Culture, Europe, Here Today, Immigration, Investigative Reports, Opinion, Past Projects, Photography, Politics, Top Stories, Videos

"Here Today," our just-finished digital storytelling project in Paris, gives a human backstory and predicts the chaos that erupted after an executive order on immigration signed by President Donald Trump last Friday.

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STORYMAP: The journey of Rahman Amiri

November 29, 2016
Beatrice
Crisis & Conflicts, Europe, Here Today, Immigration, Interview, New Media, Top Stories

When we read an article about a refugee’s journey, we don’t get the same impression as when we actually talk to the person who took the steps to flee his country for another place.

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Lost at sea: Latest count of refugees missing or feared dead crossing the Mediterranean

April 1, 2016
Aileen Min
Africa, Crisis & Conflicts, Europe, Immigration, Justice & Equality, Middle East, News, Top Stories

By Léa Moukanas GSS Correspondent PARIS — Bodies on a beach, frantic faces in a crowd, tired eyes of travelers who hope for an end to their journeys but may get none. Children and their families who are migrating from…

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OPINION: Brussels, Paris not the only victims of ISIS violence — #PrayForTheWorld

March 22, 2016
Beatrice
Crisis & Conflicts, Europe, Opinion, Top Stories

By Ana Madero GSS Correspondent PARIS — As the sun sets here, the Eiffel Tower, instead of shining its usual yellow, reflects the black, yellow and red of the Belgian flag. No stranger to tragedy, Paris will no doubt serve as…

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