Get ready for the first introduction day full of fun activities! We’ll start with some exciting games to get to know each other. Afterwards, we will have a delicious poke bowl dinner. Enjoy the dinner together with your new friends and fellow SIBlings. After the dinner, relax and upgrade your knowledge with an engaging lecture, Andrew Stroehlein with: “How to promote a crisis?“. Finally, enjoy a few drinks with your fellow Siblings and new friends during the social drinks. We will be playing some exiting (drinking) games. Play a game of beerpong or show your luck during a game of bussen or cards. We hope to see you there!

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Andrew Stroehlein: How to promote a crisis?

A war has broken out in Ruritania, and both government forces and the rebels are committing mass atrocities – war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and, some say, genocide. Famine is looming. The situation demands international attention from international media, from the UN and international agencies, and from governments with the resources to stop – or at least slow – the killing. But Ruritania is far away, few people know much about it, and fewer care. There are a lot of problems in the world, how do you make people pay attention to this one? And how does attention lead to action to help the victims?

Andrew Stroehlein is a journalist and communications expert with American, Belgian, and British backgrounds, currently serving as the European Media Director at Human Rights Watch. Based in Brussels, he oversees the organization’s media operations across Europe, Central Asia, and West Africa. Prior to this role, he spent nine years as the Director of Communications at the International Crisis Group.

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