Einaudi Center for International Studies
Actors, Time and Space in Peace Implementation Process: A New Research Agenda
October 28, 2021
11:25 am
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.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
South Asia Program
Should we talk to the police? The relationship between dialogue and activism in police reform
October 21, 2021
11:25 am
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.
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Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Einaudi Center for International Studies
The Role of Officer Race and Gender in Police-Civilian Interactions in Chicago
October 7, 2021
11:25 am
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.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
At the Table: Sugarwork, Afro-Asian Art, and Foodways (Video)
Tao Leigh Goffe with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
In this virtual At the Table event, delve into the bittersweet history of sugar to unearth stories of Afro-Asian cultural exchange in the Caribbean. Through conversation and cooking, artist Andrea Chung and Tao Leigh Goffe (Global Public Voices) explore the crossroads of Black and Asian diaspora arts and cuisines, focusing on foodways that evolved out of colonial plantations.
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After Ida’s Fury, Infrastructure Key in Preventing Misery
Linda Shi Quoted by AP
Linda Shi, Global Public Voices, said there are limits to what infrastructure improvements such as larger storm pipes and road elevation can bring.
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Activists Renew Call: Work Needed to Fight Gender-Based Violence
Sherna Alexander Benjamin, Global Public Voices
Women, peace, and security advocate and interpersonal violence and development specialist Sherna Alexander Benjamin said she hoped that in 2021 “all citizens can live in a country where we can become better to restore human dignity and we all can feel safe enough to walk our streets."
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Activist: Don’t Blame COVID-19 for Increased Sex Crimes Against Minors
Sherna Alexander Benjamin, Global Public Voices
GPV international partner in the Trinidad Guardian: President of the Organisation for Abused and Battered Individuals (OABI), Sherna Alexander-Benjamin, said COVID-19 should not be made a “scapegoat” for the increase in sexual and other forms of abuse against the nation’s children.
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Salvaging U.S. Refugee Law in 2021
Ian Kysel, Global Public Voices
In Just Security: "Among many other things, the last four years has been one, long, sustained attack on the role of the United States in refugee protection – and on the rule of law in the immigration system more broadly."
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Will These Places Survive a Collapse? Don’t Bet on It, Skeptics Say.
Linda Shi Quoted in NYT
In the New York Times: Shi is concerned that the model’s underlying data set — the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative — is so strongly correlated with income per capita. She’s not convinced that just because a nation is wealthy it will be resilient. Neither is she convinced that physical isolation keeps dangers at bay. “Boats and nuclear warheads can make their way to New Zealand,” she said.
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America Needs a Climate Adaptation Strategy
Linda Shi, Global Public Voices
Op-ed in The Hill: "But adaptation planning is about more than readying the built environment. Tackling climate adaptation is compelling when it meaningfully builds communities’ ability to improve housing quality and affordability, food security, livelihoods, and health."