Experiential Learning: The Consortium for Humanitarian Services and Education Experience

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Abstract

This paper is a review of the Consortium for Humanitarian Service and Education (CHSE) model for prisoner’s protection through readiness training for prospective humanitarian personnel. The Atlantic Hope simulation exercise on monitoring detainees and visits to a mock Black Swan prison represents an innovative teaching model to enhance protection of detainees and prisoners during incarceration. The simulation entails comprehensive monitoring, assessment, visits and provision of services to prisoners from the point of arrest, during the transition to places of custody, and imprisonment. These enhance protection of detainees to avoid deaths in custody, disappearance, torture and other crimes against humanity throughout the chain of imprisonment. Since 2005, the CHSE has implemented mock simulation exercise (Atlantic Hope) for undergraduate students with an added focus on visits to prisons and prisoners of war (POW) exchange. In 2012, the program expanded to include graduate students.

Author

• Ernest Nnamdi Ogbozor, George Mason University