Religious Moral
Philosophical Studies
Who is responsible?
Watch the video above.
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Think about what you have just watched.
1) How does it make you feel?
2) What question would you want to ask?
3) Why do you think the graveyard has been put on the water and not on the ground as usual?
4) Do you think this is a good idea? Do you think the family would agree? Give reasons for your answer.
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Watch the video opposite.
Imagine you are a refugee in this situation and this is your phone:
1) What are your biggest concerns?
2) What would you do next?
3) Write a paragraph describing what you did next.
How did you feel?
What was your goal?
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Stop and Stare
Twenty years ago, psychologist Arthur Aron discovered that four minutes of looking into each other's eyes can bring people closer. Using this discovery, Amnesty International decided to carry out a simple experiment where refugees and Europeans sat opposite each other and looked into each other's eyes.
The experiment participants were ordinary people. The situations were not staged
The people sitting opposite each other had not known each other before and saw each other for the first time during the experiment. What is important, the refugees mostly came from Syria and had not been living in Europe for longer than a year.
Task - Questions
1) Do you think that society doesn't care about refugees because they have no personal connection or link to them? (Explain your answer)
2) Do you think if more people carried out the stop and stare experiment they would care about the refugee crisis? (Why do you think this? )
Two Billion Miles
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They fled their homes and made journeys through Europe to escape civil war, poverty and the misery of refugee camps.
Migrants who applied for asylum in Europe have collectively travelled more than two billion miles; a conservative estimate based on the shortest over-land routes to European countries from their countries of origin. These 727,085 people travelled an average of 2,750 miles each.
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TASK - Click the image opposite >>>>>>>>>>
​Follow in the footsteps of migrants and refugees as they face the hardships of months on the road.
Choose your route and make tough decisions in this interactive video story, featuring real footage from extraordinary journeys made this year.​
