Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Rebecca Slayton
Director, Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
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Role
- Faculty
- PACS Core Faculty
- PACS Director
- PACS Steering Committee
- PACS Minor Field Instructor
- Einaudi Faculty Leadership
Contact
Email: rs849@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-8914
March 13: Venezuelan Perspectives on U.S. Interventionism
This virtual panel brings together five prominent experts on Venezuelan history and politics, with the aim of deepening understanding of Venezuelan perspectives on recent events and their broader implications.
World in Focus: Immigration Enforcement as Political Punishment
February 10, 2026
4:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Join Einaudi Center experts for World in Focus Talks on global events in the news and on your mind. Our faculty's research and policy insights put the world in focus.
This year we’re hosting informal campus discussions on many Tuesday afternoons. This week’s topic:
In the United States and around the world, strict immigration enforcement and violence are being wielded as political tools. Recent U.S. actions include surveillance of communities, indiscriminate detainment, and violence against protestors. Despite being framed as necessary for the safety of citizens, these tactics are rooted in histories of slavery, the prison industrial complex, and xenophobia.
Does this type of enforcement infringe on rights? How can we understand current events through the lens of global and historical contexts? Do present-day immigration policies make communities safer?
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Featured Faculty
Shannon Gleeson (Migrations) | Industrial and Labor RelationsTristan Ivory (EAP, IAD) | International and Comparative LaborJaclyn Kelley-Widmer | LawNatasha Raheja (SAP) | Anthropology
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Conversations Matter at Einaudi
This conversation is hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and its regional and thematic programs. Find out what's in store for students at Einaudi!
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
AI Chip Exports Bill an 'Attempt to Reclaim Congressional Agency'
Sarah Kreps, PACS
Sarah Kreps, director of the Tech Policy Institute and the John L. Wetherill Professor in the Department of Government, comments on proposed legislation giving Congress power over artificial intelligence chip exports.
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Feb. 5: When Rivers Are Killed and Made to Kill
This talk examines how rivers in Bosnia and Herzegovina become sites where the afterlives of war, the NATO‑brokered peace de/industrial complex, and global border regimes converge to produce fluvial necropolitics and new kinds of solidarities.
Information Session: Fulbright U.S. Student Program
February 23, 2026
4:45 pm
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. The program is open to graduate students, recent graduates, and young professionals. Undergraduate students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year. Recent graduates are welcome to apply through Cornell.
The Fulbright program at Cornell is administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International studies. Applicants are supported through all stages of the application and are encouraged to start early by contacting fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu.
Register for the virtual session.
Can’t attend? Contact fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu.
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Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Will TikTok Deal Satisfy Security Concerns in US?
Sarah Kreps, PACS
Sarah Kreps, founder and director of the Technology Policy Institute at Cornell University, discusses the implications of the TikTok deal.
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Trump's Leaked Texts Show Private Diplomacy Isn't Private Anymore
Rebecca Slayton, PACS
Rebecca Slayton, associate professor at Cornell University's Department of Science and Technology Studies, comments on the limitations of technology in securing communications.
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Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland
By Our Faculty
Bukovina, when it has existed on official maps, has always fit uneasily among its neighbors. The region is now divided between Romania and Ukraine but has long been a testing ground for successive regimes, including the Habsburg Empire, independent and later Nazi-allied Romania, and the Soviet Union, as each sought to reshape the region in its own image.
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- Book
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Publication Year: 2025
Nonviolent Discipline Is Helping Turn the Tide on ICE
David Cortright, PACS
Despite brutal provocation, the people of Minneapolis have been courageous and remarkably nonviolent, embodying the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.