Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Advisory Board
Members of the Advisory Board offer advice collectively on topics of interest, give informal advice to graduate students and visitors whose topics are relevant to their expertise, and suggest possible funding sources.
PACS Faculty, Magnus Fiskesjö, explains how the 'suck my tongue' controversy was a globally coordinated attack by the CCP on the Dalai Lama
PACS Faculty, Magnus Fiskesjö also explains how the Western gaze often wrongly analyses Eastern texts and traditions adding sexual connotations where no such thing exists.
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China Keeps Up Campaign to Pressure Critics Abroad Despite Western Backlash
Sarah Kreps, PACS
Sarah Kreps, professor of government, discusses why China continues to push its influence operations.
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Announcing 2023 Awards
Einaudi Seed Grants Finding Fertile Soil
Read about new awards and research funded in 2022, including Alex Flecker (Amazon aquaculture) and Victoria Beard (Global Survey of City Leaders).
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Sudan: Insight into Current Events
May 4, 2023
11:00 am
This webinar will offer insight into the currents events taking place in Sudan. Please register to attend.
Speakers
Dr. Nisrin Elamin, University of Toronto
Dr. Mai Hassan, MIT
Dr. Deen Sharp, London School of Economics
Moderator
Dr. Mostafa Minawi, Cornell University
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for African Development
Rhythms of the Earth: Ecological Calendars and Anticipating the Anthropogenic Climate Crisis
A special issue in the Journal GeoHealth edited by PACS faculty Prof. Karim-Aly Kassam.
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Drone-on-Drone Combat in Ukraine Marks a New Era of Aerial Warfare
Sarah Kreps, PACS
Sarah Kreps, professor of government at the Brooks school, discusses challenges in detecting drones in aerial warfare.
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Will Yoon’s Risky Wager on Japan Pay Off?
Eun A Jo, PACS
"There are signs of a thawing in the frosty ties between South Korea and Japan... But this is not the first time that the two countries shelved ‘history problems’ to prioritise cooperation," says Eun A Jo, PhD candidate in the government department.
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Applied Strategic Empathy: Improving Effectiveness from Humanitarian Relief to Great Power Competition
April 27, 2023
11:25 am
Uris Hall, G08
Strategic empathy is one of many capabilities the US Army War College seeks to enhance in its students, who are rising senior leaders in their respective armed forces and agencies. Government actors become more effective when they apply strategic empathy and thereby more fully understand the nuanced perspectives of their allies, partners, competitors, and adversaries.
Colonel Dena Goble will share her insights regarding the importance of strategic empathy as a US Army Reserve military police and civil affairs officer recently responsible for leading 800 soldiers during US resettlement operations for Afghan refugees. Brigadier General Bhat from the Indian Army will give the audience an opportunity to improve their own strategic empathy for India as he candidly explains the historical challenges, current dilemmas, and emerging opportunities for India as it navigates the great power competition between the United States and China.
Panelists
Brigadier General Atul Bhat is a senior officer in the Indian Army with 30 years of service. His various assignments, including command of an infantry company during counterinsurgency operations in Kashmir, command of an armored regiment and an armored brigade, and as deputy commander of an armored brigade at extreme high altitude in the Himalayas.
Colonel Dena Goble has over 35 years of Army Reserve service with expertise in military policing, detainee operations in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq, and civil affairs operations enhancing the integration of women into the Jordanian military, supporting intergovernmental coordination for the Syrian refugee crisis, and resettling Afghan evacuees in the United States.
Presented by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
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The Call for an AI Pause Points to a Major Concern
Sarah Kreps, PACS
Sarah Kreps, professor of government at the Brooks school, notes, “There's no way to collectively get all of the different entities that are working on these language models to collectively pause.”