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Diana Rodriguez-Wong
(MPA-DP '11)
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Fighting Poverty and Feeding the Hungry
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study presented December 2 indicates Africa could feed itself in a generation. The study says Africa, a food importer, could become a food exporter through better technology, infrastructure and education.
Students in SIPA's MPA in Development Practice program spent last summer working on such issues in some of Africa's poorest communities. One team visited Sauri, an impoverished western Kenyan community and a Millennium Village. They found much progress — new crops in the fields, better roads and schools, and health facilities with sources of water and electricity for the first time.
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Racial and Religious Profiling at U.S. Airports
Airport security is in the spotlight with full-body scanners and patdowns making headlines. Some people advocate the use of racial and religious profiling. Others say profiling sends the wrong message to society and that it is more important to observe behavior.
Hassan Abbas, Quaid-i-Azam Professor at SIPA and the South Asia Institute, took part in a debate hosted by Intelligence Squared, arguing against racial and religious profiling.
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Rising Powers: Global Public Policy Network Convenes at SIPA
For the first time, students from leading international public policy schools gathered at SIPA to examine the way rising powers are changing the world.
The Global Public Policy Network organized the conference, “Navigating a Multipolar World: Challenges and Opportunities.” Speakers included SIPA faculty, United Nations officials, and the students themselves, who presented research on issues such as Chinese economic growth and African development aid. Seventy-six students from six schools, including SIPA, took part in the conference.
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Women, Peace, and Security
In November, the United Nations Development Programme launched an
initiative to promote gender-responsive policies across Africa, in areas such as health, education and labor. Earlier, SIPA’s UN Studies Program addressed the role of women in peace building.
The panel discussion occurred on the 10th anniversary of Resolution 1325, the first formal and legal document requiring parties in a conflict to respect women’s rights and support their participation in peace negotiations and in post-conflict reconstruction.
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Tops In Translation
Alumnus Alex Zucker (MIA ’90) received the 2010 National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. Zucker was recognized for his translation from Czech of the novel All This Belongs to Me by Petra Hůlová.
“It is truly an honor to receive this award. [The book] was a challenge to translate mainly because of its five different narrators — five women, each with her own voice and own style of storytelling.”
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Faculty In the News
Steven Cohen comments on New York City’s new deputy chancellor of education,
Wall Street Journal.
James P. Rubin discusses Wikileaks and North Korea,
MSNBC,
Charlie Rose.
Tanya Domi co-authored “‘Don't ask, don't tell’ policy is discrimination in a time warp,"
CNN.
Scott Barrett comments on a campaign to eliminate malaria,
USA Today.
Arvind Panagariya writes “Getting It Right On Microfinance,"
Economic Times.
Thanassis Cambanis discusses his book A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah's Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel,
Charlie Rose.
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