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Scholars at Risk's 'Courage to Think' campaign courageous individuals who advance ideas against resistance. Institutions are invited to join in the campaign by hosting a "Courage to Think' dialogue on their campus. Other opportunities include celebrations of International Academic Freedom Day, SAR's Regional Speaker Series, and "Share Your Stories", a chance to share with SAR video, photos, audio or other stories about how a campus has been involved in protecting scholars and promoting academic freedom. Read, watch or listen to the stories below:
As part of the 'Courage to Think' campaign, Scholars at Risk invites stories from scholars who have been helped and campus leaders, administrators, faculty, students and friends who have opened their hearts and homes to them. Share with us your emails, mails, letters, pictures, audio, video or whatever you have about how you or your campus has been involved in protecting scholars and promoting academic freedom.
Courage to ThinkAn introduction to the Scholars at Risk Network
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- Scholar Stories
Stories of scholars assisted by SAR members and partners or participating in SAR activities.
- Host Stories
Stories of SAR network members and partners who host scholars or participate in other activities.
- Events
Stories from events featuring SAR scholars, network members and partners or other SAR activities.
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Literature (Democratic Republic of Congo)
" The Director of Prisons told me that I was no longer a professor. He told me to forget my name. He said that when I die, they would just throw me away."
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Journalism/Literature (Iraq)
"I pray for peace to prevail. I want to go back to my university students and my library."
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Centennial College (Canada)
"This is our way of honoring the incredible diversity of our student body. We teach solidarity regardless of background, language, or ethnicity."
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Massey College/ University of Toronto (Canada)
"The scholars who I have seen come through the program... realize that they actually can get back into what they left that they loved so much..."
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VU University Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
"If you are part of larger network, then responsibility is shared... there will be somewhere for them to go."
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UNC Greenboro (U.S.)
"To have these individuals with us has been transformational"
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Tufts University (U.S.)
"... the scholars seeking help can seem remote, but these are real colleagues who might be only one or two steps removed from the people and places we know."
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University of Oslo (Norway)
"There is a responsibility to speak the truth and to defend the truth, and this is an important part of the role of universities and academics."
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Stanford University (U.S.)
"I just got very upset that a guy like him, who I respected so much, should be in prison for views so similar to mine."
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UC Davis, School of Law (U.S.)
"At a very young age, I was watching people whose ideas were different and seeing how they were hurt; how it impacted their lives."
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Courage to Think: Intellectual Freedom in Tunisia and the Arab Spring (April 9, 2012)
"Violence towards intellectuals and artists in public spaces is unacceptable."
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Celebration of SAR's 10th Anniversary (October 3, 2011)
"The solution depends on the ability of people to create, explore, discover, develop, test, question and share ideas with each other, without fear.
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The Forbidden Science Monologues
"Showing the hard moments in my life or [in the lives of] other scholars is very important for the people to see."
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Scholars at Risk- Canada Section
"It is not only the life of the person that is at risk, the scholarship is at risk."
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Scholars at Risk- Norway Section
"When we join forces, we can achieve more."
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