Annex 3
Sample Schedules
Schedule 1:
Full course on statelessness, 14 weeks
Includes all units and two additional sessions – one case study session and one practical
session; schedule based on one 90-minute class per week
• Week 1
————————————— Unit 1
An introduction to nationality and
statelessness around the world
May include exercise 1 – Where
does my nationality come from and
what does it mean to be stateless?
• Week 2
————————————— Unit 2
State sovereignty, nationality and
statelessness
May include exercise 2 – Inclusion
and exclusion, nationality and
statelessness
• Week 3
Unit 3
Statelessness as an international
legal concept and the challenge of
identification
May include exercise 3 –
Identification of statelessness
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• Week 4
— ——————————————— Unit 4
Preventing statelessness (1):
Conflicts of laws and statelessness
among children
• Week 5
Unit 5
Preventing statelessness (2):
Nationality, discrimination and
statelessness
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• Week 6
————————————— Unit 6
Preventing statelessness (3):
Statelessness in the context of State
succession
• Week 7
———————————————— Unit 7
Reducing statelessness (1):
International law and the reduction of
statelessness
• Week 8— Case study session
The prevention and reduction of
statelessness – national practice and
international norms
Exercises 4 – 7 (legal analysis case
studies A, B, C and D)
• Week 9
Unit 8
Reducing statelessness (2): Largescale statelessness reduction
campaigns
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• Week 10
—————————————— Unit 9
Protecting stateless persons (1):
Human rights law and the protection
of stateless persons
May include exercise 9 – Nationality
and rights under contemporary
human rights law
• Week 11
—————————————— Unit 10
Protecting stateless persons (2):
The 1954 Convention relating to the
Status of Stateless Persons
May include exercise 10 – Strengths
and weaknesses of the 1954
Statelessness Convention
• Week 12
————————————— Unit 11
Statelessness, migration and forced
displacement
May include exercise 11 –
Statelessness, migration and forced
displacement
• Week 13
————————————— Unit 12
Tackling statelessness: Whose job
is it and what prospects are there for
the future?
• Week 14
Practical session
Exercises 8 & 12 - Reducing
statelessness: Partners, strategies
and activities & Addressing
statelessness: Who cares?
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