2025-05-26
A visit of the Project Manager Prof. Dr. Ralf Roßkopf (THWS) to Jordan gave an opportunity to meet and discuss the next steps in the project with representatives of the Jordanian project team, namely Asst. Prof. Ruba M. AlAkash and Assoc. Prof. Ibrahim M. Darwish (both Yarmouk University) and in a separate meeting with Ms. Zina Darwish and Ms. Mariam Abu Samra (both Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development).
2025-05-22
Today saw the first video shooting for the Online Course “Palestine & Palestinian Refugees”. The course will not only serve the preparation of the participating research teams but once completed is planned to be made available to the interested public and educational institutions as open educational resource.
Ten units will cover topics like the historical origins and developments of the conflict as well as of the peace process; the current escalation, namely the Simchat Torah Massacre, Gaza War and violence in the West Bank; the legal status and actual situation of Palestinians and Palestinian refugees; the conflict lines and specifically the question of return and/or compensation; and, last but not least, proposed conflict solutions.
2025-05-14
THWS International Week 2025 was an opportunity for Iraqi, Lebanese and German members of the research team to meet and coordinate. Ideas were developed how to embed the topic into broader universal human rights activities. Meetings were held between the Project Manager Prof. Dr. Ralf Roßkopf and the Project Coordinator Ms. Anca Aicha (both THWS), President Asst. Prof. Dr. Paiman Ahmad (University of Raparin, Autonomous Kurdish Region of Iraq), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abdullah Omar Yassen (Erbil Polytechnic University, Autonomous Kurdish Region of Iraq), Vice President Nael Alawali, HoD Amal Safwan Hawari and Aimee Ghanem (Modern University for Business and Administration).
2025-05-13
After a rigorous selection process, excellent Master students from every participating country were chosen to join and complete the research team. All structures have been set. Our focus will now be on the actual research.
2025-05-09
In a meeting at THWS, PhD candidate Aimee Ghanem and Project Manager Prof. Dr. Ralf Roßkopf outlined and launched the envisioned research and documentation on “Social Work & Palestinian Refugees. Interestingly, Social Work in Lebanon started 1948, the year of the Nakba. However, only scarce written sources exist.
The project aims to collect, analyze and translate them as far as needed. This will be complemented by interviews of professionals and institutions as eyewitnesses. The findings will be published on this website. Aimee Ghanem is founder of the research hub SWorld (https://sworld-edu.com/) and involved in similar documentation activities since years.
2025-05-05
A visit of PhD candidate Aimee Ghanem (lecturer at Modern University for Business and Science, Lebanon) to THWS allowed further coordination with the Project Manager Prof. Dr. Ralf Roßkopf and the Project Coordinator Anca Aicha and to work on the development on the online course “Scientific Research”. The course is meant to prepare the students for their research tasks within the project. The asynchronous course will be complemented by synchronous online units and a face-to-face training. A visit to THWS’ University Media Center introduced to possible digitization hardware and software.
2025-02-15
VOPE welcomes its newly hired Project Coordinator Anca Aicha. She is a graduate of Social Work on the Bachelor and Master level from THWS as well as of Management and Marketing from Lucian Blaga University Sibiu, Romania. She has been for years and will continue to be in the future a scientific assistant and part-time lecturer at THWS in the field of welcoming and integrating refugees and international students into the student body and campus towns. She will take the opportunity to focus her envisioned PhD research to questions related to Palestinian refugees.
2025-01-13
The Kick-off meeting brought together the team leaders for the project from all participating countries to coordinate the upcoming activities. It was conducted under the impression of the ongoing Gaza War, the destruction of the infrastructure in the Strip, increasing violence in the West Bank and fear of complete displacement from Palestine – which just underpinned the timeliness of the project.
