Events

Please join us for a workshop on personal safety, self-care, ethics, and the practicalities of engaging with local populations in disaster- and conflict-affected environments. The workshop will be led by Fletcher and Friedman Professors Dyan Mazurana and Karen Jacobsen.

The Henry J. Leir Institute for Human Security and the World Peace Foundation are pleased to welcome Professor Edward Weisband for a discussion on his new book, The Macabresque: Human Violation and Hate in Genocide, Mass Atrocity and Enemy-Making.

Amb. Juan José Gómez-Camacho, Mexico’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, will discuss the latest draft of the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The Ambassador is co-facilitator of intergovernmental consultations and negotiations on issues related to the Global Compact.

One Billion Rising is the biggest mass action to end violence against women in human history.  On February 15, join us for

Applying the principles of conflict intervention in the Middle East to US politics with Adam G. Hinds (F03), Massachusetts State Senator.

Speaker Evan Osnos joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008, and covers politics and foreign affairs. His book, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, based on eight years of living in Beijing, won the 2014 the National Book Award in nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction.

Negotiating a Model International Mobility Convention: Politics, Economics, and Law

On November 1, 2017, join Kim Wilson and Roxanne Krystalli for a discussion on the practicalities of refugee research. How did they and their research team navigate dilemmas of power during fieldwork? How did they think about the ethical implications of working with refugee narratives? What are some of the dilemmas that they faced during the conduct of their fieldwork in Greece, Jordan, and Turkey? How can students, researchers, and practitioners think about the ethics and methods of refugee research moving forward?

The promotion of a ‘good’ rebellion in Syria represented the latest effort to shape governance in a failing state. The rising threat of Islamic extremism in Syria served as kindling for this project, counteracting the more withholding impulses that had arisen from the last fifteen years of regime change and state-building. And, yet, those encouraging progressive rebel politics were unprepared to leverage decisive support on behalf of the uprising.