There's a crisis at the border. How did we get here? From conflicts in the Northern Triangle to US detention and asylum procedures, Professor Cordova will explore the geopolitical history and US foreign policy that continues to drive migrants north. With a focused look at El Salvador, Professor Cordova will examine the physical and psychological sequelae of migration through first hand accounts of her interviewees. For more information or Zoom details, email Reine Ibala: rwi4001@med.cornell.edu and Rinu Alakiu: gra4002@med.cornell.edu.

This talk examines how the financial realities of outmigration from Central America to the United States reinforce return attempts after deportation. Because of the nature of mortgage payments, liens, and debt terms, deported out-migrants often find themselves with little recourse except to try to emigrate North again to find employment. This talk, therefore, examines how prevailing narratives of migration ignore or work around a fundamental economic reality—not one principally of poverty and underemployment but one rather of indebtedness stemming from the significant costs of transnational migration itself.

John Kennedy, is a PhD student, Romance Studies, LASP Graduate Fellow, and a Public Humanities Fellow, Cornell University. John studies migration and its narratives, broadly conceived. He is a recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship and is currently at work on a project on the financial ecology of migration in Mexico and Central America; he is a first-generation Guatemalan American.

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This event is sponsored by Monroe Community College and the Cornell University Latin American Studies Program with funding provided by a grant from the US Department of Education. Co-sponsored by: MCC’s Department of Anthropology/History/Political Science/Sociology and Global Education & International Services.

Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser is Professor at Diego Portales University (UDP) in Santiago de Chile and an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES). His main area of research is comparative politics and he has a special interest in the ambivalent relationship between populism and democracy. He will be discussing the Chilean Right Party.
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In this CUSLAR and LASP Public Issues Forum, speakers from Asociacion Sembrando Semillas de Paz, or Sembrandopaz, will speak to the challenges of grassroots peace-building with a human rights framework in post-civil war Colombia. A large part of their work includes a focus on sustainability and agroecological farming practices.

This event will be in Spanish with interpretation into English.

Lillian Hall '84 is an agronomist by profession and currently serves as the international relations coordinator and manager for Sembrandopaz at the Villa Barbara farm in Sincelejo, Colombia. She is an alumna of Cornell University and lived for nearly 30 years in Nicaragua, where she developed her expertise in international public relations as director of a small NGO in Nicaragua and served as a leader of delegations for understanding and solidarity

Andres Ruiz is a community leader in Sucre, Colombia. He has worked with Sembrandopaz for more than 20 years. He has served as the leader of the victims division for more than 9 years, and has worked on the forefront of the group’s various reconciliation projects. He has also worked on the part of the Municipal government of Coloso, Colom-bia in the Familias en Accion (Families in action) as well as the Colombia Mejor (A Better Colombia) initiatives.

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The Committee on U.S. Latin American Relations (CUSLAR), in partnership with the Cornell Latin American Studies Program and the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, is sponsoring this event highlighting the role of community initiatives in constructing peace in Colombia. The event is sponsored in part by the Student Activities Finance Commission and funded in part by the LASP Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) grant from the US Department of Education.

Protests against racism and police violence crescendoed in the United States and around the world in 2020. In the United States and internationally, how can we balance social justice, accountability, and personal freedom with demands for order and security?

This Lund Critical Debate brings together the United Nations’ police commissioner and a noted expert on political conflict resolution to discuss strategies—both inside and outside the policing framework—for public safety and law enforcement. The conversation will address current questions around security and policing, including political violence, racial injustice and Black Lives Matter, and global responses to unlawful use of force.

The panel welcomes questions in advance and during the event. Registration is required.

Panelists
Luís Carrilho, United Nations Police Adviser. He has served since November 2017 as police commissioner and director of the UN’s Police Division. He previously served as the police commissioner in multidimensional United Nations peacekeeping operations in Timor Leste, Haiti, and the Central African Republic.

Christian Davenport, Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Michigan. His research focuses on racism, social movements, and political conflict, including human rights violations, genocide, torture, political surveillance, and civil war. His most recent book is The Peace Continuum: What It Is and How To Study It (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Moderator
Sabrina Karim, Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies; Hardis Family Assistant Professor for Teaching Excellence, Department of Government, A&S. Her research focuses on conflict and peace processes, international involvement in post-conflict security, and state building in the aftermath of civil war.

About the Debate
This year’s Lund Critical Debate is hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, part of the Einaudi Center. Established in 2008, the Einaudi Center's Lund Critical Debate Series is made possible by the generosity of Judith Lund Biggs ’57.

Celebrate International Education Week #IEW2020 with Global Cornell!

Join DJ Daniel Bass of WRFI's Monsoon Radio for world music of 2020—from coronavirus and mass incarceration, to migration, love, dancing, and beyond. Jonathan Miller of Homelands Productions cohosts.

For semi-finals: It's a semi-study break. See you there.

Registration is required.

Daniel Bass (South Asia Program) has been a radio DJ for nearly 30 years. As an undergraduate at Carleton College, he was music director of KRLX, the student-run radio station, and hosted a weekly show. In graduate school at the University of Michigan, he cohosted a weekly show of South Asian music on WCBN, the college/community radio station in Ann Arbor. In 2013, he started Monsoon Radio on WPKN in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He brought the show to Ithaca's WRFI in 2017. Monsoon Radio features music of South Asia, its influences and diasporas, branching out to music of the Indian Ocean and the Muslim world and fusions from all over the globe. Until the pandemic forced the show into hiatus, Monsoon Radio aired every other Tuesday night on WRFI, 88.1 FM, and wrfi.org.

Jonathan Miller's work as a journalist, writer, and editor has taken him to more than 20 countries in Asia, the Americas, Africa, Europe, and the Pacific. His radio and television reports have been broadcast on NPR, Marketplace, BBC, PBS NewsHour, and other outlets. As executive director of the journalism collective Homelands Productions, he has designed and produced multi-platform projects on cultural change, globalization and work, and the future of food. He serves as board chair of Ithaca City of Asylum. From 2016 to 2018 he was associate director of communication at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

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