The Center is developing an array of projects and program-related funding aimed at building bridges between the Columbia community (students, faculty, staff, alumni/ae, and lay leaders) and the realm of national and international policy-making. Those bridges are being built through personal interactions, electronic networking, publications, and the development of a Center website. At this point, four types of programs are envisioned, in addition to teaching, as follows:
Policy Roundtables that bring together selected representatives of states, international agencies, civil society, the private sector, and academia to work through specific policy problems;
- Policy Events of a more public nature that seek to involve the larger Columbia and New York communities in an informed discussion of how international organizations might address a major issue of the day;
- Sustained Policy Dialogues among students, scholars, and practitioners from different parts of the world or representing distinct political perspectives; and
- A Global Leadership Series that would bring distinguished practitioners from governments, inter-governmental organizations, NGOs, foundations, and the private sector to SIPA for short programs of speaking engagements, lectures, and interactions with students and faculty.