Camp Leaders Research Articles

Canada's Position on the Use of Force Internationally

CARE Canada is an international development and humanitarian relief agency. Increasingly we work in conflict zones-pre-, post-, or sometimes, active. Our experiences are field-based: we know what we know because of the type of work we do and where we do it. We continue to confront the issue of force, in its various guises, as we do our work, and these discussions, regrettably, occur more and more often.At the entrance to the CARE Canada headquarters building in Ottawa are two granite plaques inscribed with the names of the employees of CARE who have lost their lives in service. It is a sad commentary, but a telling one, that we will have to add another plaque to pay tribute to more CARE workers who have recently been killed in the line of duty.Humanitarian agencies undertake their work according to long-accepted protocols and principles: we are neutral, impartial deliverers of assistance to those in need. The best of this work takes place over decades of continual presence at the local level, with the employment of national staff-ratios of ioo nationals to one expatriate, for instance. We are dependent the acceptance of our presence and our work by local people; we live on the economy. Our best contribution to dampening down conflict and thus lessening the need for force is to continue our long-term, lowkey humanitarian work using as our guideline the principles that have been developed over years of experience-independence, neutrality, impartiality, humanity. This preventative work, if successful in the long term can lead to peaceful conflict resolution as opposed to the outbreak of violence and the need for forceful intervention.During the past 15 years, the demands for our services have grown at the same time as the context in which those services are provided has become more and more dangerous. Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Caucasus are places where our presence is needed at the same time as it is threatened. In the face of the violence in those states, the use offeree has become essential to protect our staff, our beneficiaries, and our assets.At the time of the Rwandan genocide in 1994, hundreds of thousands of Rwandans fled to neighbouring states-Zaire, Tanzania, Burundi. Included in those throngs of people who crossed borders were many of those who had caused and implemented the genocide. CARE Canada was running several large refugee camps, including one of 200,000 people, just outside Coma, in what was then Zaire. As is our usual practice, we recruited community leaders to provide some of the services required for the population-distribution of food, water, tents, blankets, etc. It soon became obvious to us that some of those same community leaders were implicated in the murders in Rwanda, and that they were undermining our principles of distribution-that is, that everyone in need, regardless of beliefs, is entitled to their fair share of the goods. Instead, the leaders in the camp, who were armed, were rewarding their friends and punishing those who did not support them. We then hired an impartial group-former Rwandan boy scouts-to patrol the camp and ensure that everyone was included in the distributions. One morning 20 or so of those boy scouts were found dead. The camp leadership were not about to accept the challenge to their authority that CARE was asserting.Security was an obvious problem. We asked the Canadian government for help through the UN. None was forthcoming. The government of Zaire provided some gendarmes, but they were paid sporadically, if at all, and were not terribly effective.In the end, CARE pulled out of that camp-a very difficult decision for a humanitarian agency-and UNHCR found another implementing agency. But this experience underlines the necessity to think through carefully issues offeree and intervention. The experience caused us to question some of our practices, and indeed to engage in some intellectual work that combined our field experience with literature reviews and academic analysis, and resulted in a paper entitled Mean times, published by the University of Toronto. …

Cultural Translation and the DoubleMovement of Difference in Learning 'English as a Second Identity'

This article pursues two main lines of inquiry: How might postcolonial theory, feminist and postcolonial translation studies sharpen our critical understandings of the micro- and geopolitics of English language learning? What kinds of pedagogical practice might such new developments ground in order to foster our learners' critical ways of knowing and being? From a survey of postcolonial perspectives on TESOL, I introduce several key concepts from postcolonial translation studies: the principles of time and progress in discourses of coloniality/modernity; resistant practices of cultural translation and double translation. These concepts allow me to trace the identity- and knowledge-based stakes and negotiations by high school immigrant English language learners within unique spaces created by the transformative pedagogy of a Freirean-style antiracism leadership camp in Toronto, Canada. I conclude by drawing out the implications of this analysis for a pedagogy of critical translational awareness.

ROTC Training Teaches Nursing Students Critical Thinking Skills

The rising cost of college has many students seeking financial assistance. One option for helping students pay for an education is the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC). Most educators are aware that ROTC students attend military classes and maintain physical fitness in addition to attending regular classes. However, nurse educators may not know that ROTC students receive intensive training in teamwork, leadership, and critical thinking, all extremely important skills required in professional nursing. The author describes the ROTC National Advanced Leadership Camp.

Urban Campers as a New Population for Community Impact Assessment

All states and cities and most towns have urban camper communities. “Urban camper” is a working term for homeless people who live in urban or suburban areas. The term helps differentiate campers with stable, minimally developed night locations from those homeless who have nowhere consistent to go. Camper populations vary from one to several hundred. They live in tents or shanties without services or utilities. Many residents work, access shopping and services, and send their children to school. Their camp communities are their homes. Public safety and social service agencies know these people, but they are invisible to the average citizen. Many urban campers are U.S. citizens, but the mainstream community has traditionally overlooked their legal and personal rights. Acknowledging their rights may cause legal problems for local governments. Land development and land use changes can force campers out of campsite locations. Sometimes they find out about changes the morning bulldozers arrive. A widening of U.S. Highway 301 in Sarasota, Florida, would have displaced hundreds of urban campers who lived in wooded patches along the roadway. The Florida Department of Transportation asked a community impact assessment (CIA) team to identify the problem's scope and to ensure that this displacement would proceed better than past displacements. The CIA team surveyed area social service agencies (SSAs) that are used regularly by many urban campers. Because traditional CIA meetings were not feasible or welcome, SSA staff became the conduit for communication with informal camp leadership. The CIA team kept SSAs updated. Before construction started the majority of urban campers had melted away.

Identifying, Defining, Applying, Analyzing & Synthesizing Leadership Opportunities with Adolescents

Executive Summary A leadership program was developed by the authors and utilized at the State 4-H Leadership Camp in Ohio during July, 1998 and 1999. The purpose of this workshop was to obtain qualitative data from two groups, Leadership Counselors and Leadership Campers, regarding their perceptions and definitions of leadership. Specifically, workshop participants were asked to identify current and former leaders, define "leadership," apply leadership principles to the camp situation, analyze their abilities and opportunities as youth leaders and synthesize leadership opportunities which could be performed when they returned to their families, clubs and communities. Comparisons between the two groups were made with camp counselors tending to believe that leadership was learned through teaching and observation, while campers tended to believe that leadership skills were learned through active participation.

Leadership Workshop State 4-h lEadership Camp Lesson Plan

Leadership Workshop State 4-h lEadership Camp Lesson Plan

Unfinished Rabbi: Selected Writings of Arnold Jacob Wolf (review)

148 SHOFAR Fall 1999 Vol. 18, No.1 before the end of World War II when only the bigots and the uninformed would have regarded Jews as "insiders" in the United States or elsewhere. Leonard Dinnerstein Judaic Studies University of Arizona Unfinished Rabbi: Selected Writings of Arnold Jacob Wolf, edited by Jonathan S. Wolf. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998. 266 pp. $27.50. It would not be flippancy to describe Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolfas an intellectual gadfly, an ofttimes lonely, prophetic voice calling out for social activism, or to characterize him as a goad to the individual and collective conscience of American Jewry. Unfinished Rabbi: Selected Writings ofJacob Arnold Wolf, edited by his son, Jonathan S. Wolf, is a chronicle of a man who for over 40 years has been a Hillel rabbi at Yale University, a congregational rabbi, a university professor, and always, in the highest sense, a teacher of Judaism and Jewish values. Ordained as a Reform rabbi, Rabbi Wolf never compartmentalized his Judaism within stringentideological boundaries. He was increasingly concerned with the erosion of Halacha, Jewish law, within modem Jewish life, and so, even though a member of the Reform Central Conference of American Rabbis, he also joined the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly. A daring pioneer and innovator, Rabbi Wolfhelped to develop the National Federation ofTemple Youth's Camp Leadership Institutes and was one of the founders of the UAHC's highly successful summer camp at Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. As rabbi ofCongregation SoleI in the greater Chicago area, he led the congregation into creative paths of liturgy, leadership, study, and social activism. Among his most controversial actions as a rabbi was his becoming the president of Breira, a short-lived Jewish organization which in the mid-1970s courageously called for the establishment ofa Palestinian state and early on took on the unpopular role ofsupporting "land for peace" as the only viable alternative to years of bloody Arab-Israeli conflict. Though the writings in Unfinished Rabbi go back to the 1960s, there is still much in the book that is relevant and worthy of our attention. Thus in a speech he gave in . 1994, Rabbi Wolfstated, "It is time to demythologize the black-Jewish dialogue, to stop pretending that we have exactly the same proximate goals or strategies. What we do have is a desperate need for one America instead ofa nation divided into rich and poor, black and white." In an article in the periodical Sh 'rna, which he wrote in 1973, he anticipated the current discussion over the future course of Zionism by raising such disturbing Book Reviews .. ~. 149 questions as "Did Zionism mean to create an American-style supermarket on the Mediterranean built by Arab masons and carpenters?" In that same essay he excoriated the Orthodox· establishment in Israel for "its veto over free religious expression by Israeli Jews," and he castigated Orthodoxy for adding to the militarism of many religious citizens of Israel. In a portrait of Yeshayahu Leibowitz written in 1981 in Sh 'rna, Rabbi Wolfcontinuedhis attack on Orthodoxy in Israel, stating, "Religious Jews have become a mere sect instead ofa model. Therefore the established synagogue must be disestablished." Again, he spoke out in favor oflsrael's disengaging itselffrom the occupied territories. It should also be mentioned that his portraits ofsuch distinguished thinkers as Jean Paul Sartre, Mordecai Kaplan, and Martin Buber, among others, are among the highlights of this challenging, provocative and very illuminating book. Rabbi Wolf, as a Reform rabbi, teacher, writer, and theologian, has always sought to engage Jewish minds and hearts in a dialogue based upon his unshaken conviction that only a radical politics firmly rooted in meaningful and substantive Jewish piety and practice deserves to be called "Judaism." There are those who refer to Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf as a "prophet become rabbi," and indeed, Unfinished Rabbi resonates with such a voice. The American Jewish community is fortunate to number a Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf in its ranks. Hopefully, others will continue to pursue the questions he has raised and so strengthen and sustain American Jewry and American Judaism. Rabbi Samuel Weingart Temple Israel West Lafayette, Indiana From Patriarch to Priest: The Levi-Priestly Tradition from Aramaic Levi...

Policy lessons from Lao and Hmong women in Thai refugee camps

This paper examines the role of Lao and Hmong women in two Thai refugee camps. It looks specifically at the participation of women within the administrative structure of the camps, in camp service and training programs, and in the relocation process. While no refugees wield real power in the camps, the paper demonstrates how the absence of women in camp leadership and their consistent representation by men effectively muffles whatever little input they might have into camp policies, programs, or their own futures within the relocation process. This is a result, not of callous administrators nor insensitive service agencies, but rather of the unexamined assumptions of development planning.

Coping With Juvenile Diabetes

Resentment, shame, guilt, helplessness, excessive dependency, perfectionism, rebellion—these are reactions commonly experienced by juvenile diabetics and their parents. While the last decade has seen dramatic advances in unraveling the etiology of type I or insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus as well as newer tools for monitoring and treating it, the authors point out that understanding and managing the psychosocial complications of juvenile diabetes have lagged behind these technical advances. This book, focusing on the psychosocial aspects of coping with juvenile diabetes, is aimed at all health care providers, including physicians, nurses, dieticians, psychologists, and social workers. The authors also emphasize that, while professional care givers are important, families provide 99% of care, and so the book is also written for older patients, parents, teachers, and camp and youth leaders. A portion of the book, primarily a section on the Epidemiology of Juvenile Diabetes, summarizes recent medical advances, including information on the incidence

Ecology Is Alive and Well in Hinton!

Ecology Is Alive and Well in Hinton!

Current Problems in Camp Leadership

Current Problems in Camp Leadership Ira V. Hiscock CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.26.9.944-b Published Online: August 29, 2011

Training Courses for Camp Leadership

Training Courses for Camp Leadership

Camp Leadership Courses in Universities

Camp Leadership Courses in Universities