Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in African development. In addition, prepares students for higher level courses on African economic, social and political development. The presentations are designed for students who are interested in development, Africa’s place in global studies, want to know about the peoples, cultures and societies that call Africa home, and explore development theories and alternate viewpoints on development. -

A discussion with CATO's Doug Bandow and Prof. Sarah Kreps.

Afghan refugees have long comprised the largest or second-largest group of refugees in the world, and the number of Afghans seeking safety outside Afghanistan increased dramatically even before the U.S. government's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Betsy Fisher, Director of Strategy at International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), will discuss why U.S. immigration programs and international refugee protection systems failed to achieve their goals, and policy solutions to improve them.

The event will be hosted by Professor Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer.

The event will occur virtually via Zoom. You can register for the event at this link: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dxaGG1BvS3eEQUGAjUBD9Q

Betsy Fisher is the Director of Strategy at the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP). She coordinates IRAP’s efforts to screen potential clients, represent refugees in UNHCR proceedings, and provide self-help materials to refugees and displaced people. She previously served as IRAP’s policy director, Jordan staff attorney and intake coordinator based in Amman, Jordan. Betsy has published op-eds and academic articles about statelessness and refugee resettlement in publications like the New York Times and the Michigan Law Review.

Betsy is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School, and Denison University.

Cornell's Migrations initiative is hosting the Migration as Practice: Pedagogy Workshop. Designed for faculty and instructors, the workshop will focus on specific strategies for designing inclusive and reflective pedagogy with transformative outcomes. It will also provide training on how to codevelop curriculum in partnership with community organizations, with sustainable and mutually beneficial outcomes for all participants involved.

Reflective pedagogy engages in an exercise of dedicating time to evaluate teaching practice, examine curricular choices and underlying beliefs/biases, consider student feedback, and revise in order to improve student learning and belonging. The panelists will lead us to consider how we as faculty make connections between and teach about racism, dispossession, and migration in interdisciplinary, innovative, and impactful ways.

Panelists include:

Melina Ivanchikova, Associate Director, Center for Teaching InnovationAmy K. Somchanhmavong, Associate Director, Service-Learning and Partnership, Public Service CenterModerated by:

Rachel Beatty Riedl, Director, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies; John S. Knight Professor of International Studies

How do peace processes really work and how can progress be measured? Madhav Joshi explains this emerging research agenda at an upcoming seminar with the Reppy Institute.

Madhav Joshi is research professor and associate director of the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He oversees the data coding on the implementation of peace agreements worldwide for the PAM project and leads the research initiatives on peace agreement design, implementation, and post-implementation political and economic developments. His research and teaching focus on civil wars, mediation, post-civil war democratization and democratic survival, peace duration and peacebuilding, quality peace, and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal.

This seminar is part of a series organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and the Gender and Security Sector (GSS) Lab. Download the Fall 2021 Seminar Series schedule here.

Participants will be given a link to the article at registration or they may access it here. To enrich the conversation, please read in advance of the seminar.

Rachel Wahl discusses the relationship between dialogue and activism in police reform, based on research published in Polity, vol 49, no 4 (2017): 489–517. Wahl is an Associate Professor at the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia.

This seminar is part of a series organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and the Gender and Security Sector (GSS) Lab. Download the Fall 2021 Seminar Series schedule here.

Participants will be given a link to the article at registration or they may access it here. To enrich the conversation, please read in advance of the seminar.

Jonathan Mummolo is Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He presents this co-authored article “The role of officer race and gender in police-civilian interactions in Chicago,” Science 371, 6530 (2021): 696–702.

This seminar is part of a series organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and the Gender and Security Sector (GSS) Lab. Download the Fall 2021 Seminar Series schedule here.

Participants will be provided a link to the article upon registration. To enrich the conversation, please read in advance of the seminar.