Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Amelia C. Arsenault
Reppy Fellow 2023-24, IES Graduate Fellow 2024-25
Amelia C. Arsenault is a PhD student at Cornell University’s Department of Government. Her research considers the effects of artificial intelligence on international politics, with a particular interest in the global proliferation of contemporary surveillance and smart city technologies.
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- Student
- PACS Past Graduate Fellow
- Graduate Fellow
- Graduate Student
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Email: aa2758@cornell.edu
Amber Cheryl Mary Ingwell
Reppy Fellow 2023-24
Amber Ingwell is a second-year Master of Public Administration student at the Brooks School. Her concentration is Government, Politics, and Policy, with a certificate in Systems Thinking. Her interests include artificial intelligence and technology from the perspective of government policy and military decision-making and strategy. This includes the impacts on international cooperation, security, and political systems.
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Is America Ready for AI-powered Politics?
Sarah Kreps, PACS
Sarah Kreps, professor of government, says, “It’s more that I think there’s no alternative. It is nearly hopeless to think that there’s an alternate universe where we just try to put this genie back in the bottle.”
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Opinion: Dictators Are Learning from Each Other — and Holding on to Power
Magnus Fiskesjö, EAP/SEAP/PACS
Magnus Fiskesjö, associate professor of anthropology, discusses extrajudicial show trials in China in this opinion essay.
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PACS Faculty, Magnus Fiskesjö, cited in the Washington Post
The article cites Prof. Fiskesjö's research on how China in the past decade or so has brought back show trials, with staged, coerced confessions, borrowing both from the Mao era and reaching back to Joseph Stalin’s show trials of the 1930s.
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How AI Is Changing the 2024 Election
Sarah Kreps, PACS
Sarah Kreps, professor of government, discusses the impact of artificial intelligence on the 2024 election.
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PACS Faculty, Prof. Karim-Aly Kassam, awarded Professor Honoris Causa of the American University of Central Asia
Prof. Kassam has been awarded this honor in recognition of his contributions to the culturally grounded community-based research on climate adaptation in Central Asia, and sponsoring and supporting students at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA).
Prof. Kassam had been invited to deliver the Commencement Address to the Graduates of 2023 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Through his address, entitled “Once You Know, You Become Responsible”, he specifically spoke to students from diverse ethnicities and nationalities from countries at war with each other. It was an audience of future leaders from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Syria, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
This also concluded a major research on climate change and coincided with the first graduates of the Zeenab Kassam Scholarship.