Association des �tudes et D�veloppement International
International Studies and Development Association
How many are we?
DIMEIL
SFUO
PSSA
SAC
Last events to block our movement:
Complaint to ban the March 7,8 & 9 Referendum
SAC Manifest of Defence
SAC's Decision
~No Taxation Without Proper Representation~
Yes. In 2003, when IDG and ISL programmes were just created, PSSA (the then Political Sciences Students Association) acquired us incorporating our programmes to their mandate along with the Public Administration programme. A referendum was held but no IDG nor ISL student was considered in it; only Political Science students were consulted.
We therefore question the legitimacy of PSSA's representative role. Furthermore, since PSSA became the "Political Studies Students Association", a Federated Body representing four (4) programmes, their activities remained focused on political issues, despite the facts that ISML is half an Arts programme, that IDG is half Sociology, and that both programmes are multidisciplinary. The interests of our new student population remained neglected by PSSA. Given this situation, DIMEIL was created, as an ad-hoc student committee, to voice the interests of IDG & ISML students and thereby promote activities to fill the gap. However, since then every effort by DIMEIL to get PSSA's support resulted unsatisfactory.
Becoming an association, apart from Political Sciences and Public Administration, will not impede ISDA to welcome PoliSCi or APA students, and any university student in general, from participating in activities, socials, conferences, workshops as well as their emailing list. As a matter of fact, DIMEIL yahoogroups members are students from a wide spectrum of programmes and ISDA aims to continue this openess. This is also the case of the Ottawa Latin-American Association (OLA), Engineers Without Borders (EWB), and the Centre for Women in Politics and Public Policy (CWPPP). By the way, EWB is very active promoting ID.
Therefore, what the creation of ISDA will bring is, at a first glance, a legitimate democratic representation and, foremost, the opportunity to provide quality ID & IR focused activities, bursaries and internships; all this is possible through a transparent management of student membership funds.
CONSULTATIVE REFERENDUM
RESULT:
Official Document
Ottawa, 29 & 30 March, 2006
Referendum Statistics:
IDG students: 90% "YES"
ISML students: 65% "YES"
Overall "YES": 81% (111/137)
Overall "NO": 19% (26/137)
Poster
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