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Center for the Study of Human
Rights
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Advocacy
Program:
Building Leaders in
Human
Rights
Every
fall semester, respected human rights leaders from
around the world make New York City and Columbia
University their home, immersing themselves in
policy debates, networking, and advanced training.
Their goal is to build on their skills, knowledge
and contacts, and return home ready to resume the
fight for human rights.
The Human Rights
Advocacy Program is a four-month capacity building
program, developed and run by Columbia's Center
for the Study of Human Rights. The advocates
represent areas such as labor rights, public
health, the environment, corporate abuse, and
examine Issues with special regard to how they
intersect with gender, race, ethnicity, sexual
identity or other sources of marginalization. More
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Spring Semester
2010
- Online registration for
continuing students begins Tuesday, Jan 12.
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First day of classes is Tuesday, Jan 19. More
Peacebuilding and
Sustainable Development in the
Balkans
The Center for International
Conflict Resolution (CICR) in partnership with the
Italian Ministry for Environment Land and Sea
co-host a two-day symposium, exploring issues
related to sustainable development, environmental
policy-making and peace building in the Balkans.
Jan 28 - 29. More
Former
NYC Mayor David
Dinkins' Leadership and Public Policy
Forum
With keynote address by U.S.
Senator Charles E. Schumer. Feb 1, 1 - 5 p.m., at
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Faculty
 José Antonio
Ocampo published Growth
and Policy in Developing Countries: A
Structuralist Approach, with
co-authors Codrina Rada and Lance Taylor. The
book assumes a structuralist perspective in its
investigation of why some developing countries
have failed to grow at 2 percent or more since
1960. It identifies problems that have long
frustrated growth in many parts of the
developing world while suggesting new strategies
and policies to help improve standards of
living.
Anne Nelson
presented a report on who should pay for the
news, entitled Experimentation and Evolution in
Private U.S. Funding of Media
Development. In the report for the
Center for International Media Assistance,
Professor Nelson examines private funding for
international media development, as digital
technology changes how consumers receive
information and economic conditions hammer
traditional advertising models.
Robert
Lieberman co-authored a chapter in The
Unsustainable American State, entitled
"American State Building: The Theoretical
Challenge." With co-author Desmond King,
Professor Lieberman "aims to draw a suppler,
multidimensional picture of the American state's
origins, structure and
consequences."
Barbara Nunberg
joins SIPA as Professor of Professional
Practice, teaching public management and
governance issues in development. Professor
Nunberg previously served as head of the World
Bank's program on public sector reform and
governance for the East Asia and Pacific Region.
During her career at the World Bank, she was
engaged in research, policy development, and
operational projects and programs on governance
and public management in developing countries.
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Faculty
Research Online: SIPA now offers online a
comprehensive list of recent books, papers,
articles, and other publications by its faculty
members. SIPA comprises more than 60 full-time
faculty and more than 200 adjunct faculty,
scholars, and practitioners, all producing
scholarship in a wide variety of subjects:
international relations, democratization, elections, demography, and social
policy. More Complacency Kills:
SIPA's Alumni Relations Office presented
a policy forum in Washington, D.C. with
Professor Austin Long, entitled "Complacency
Kills: Observations from the Field on
Counterinsurgency and the Future of Iraq."
Professor Long teaches security
policy at SIPA, focusing on national security,
counterinsurgency, and political science. More
Eye on
Copenhagen: The world is watching
Copenhagen, Denmark, where representatives from
nearly 200 nations have convened to consider
measures to address climate change. SIPA offers
a variety of resources, including lectures and
discussions available on video, and faculty and
student research and publications. More
 Rob Garris to Join the
Rockefeller Foundation: SIPA's
Senior Associate Dean Robert Garris has accepted
a position with the Rockefeller Foundation, as
Managing Director of the Bellagio Program. The
Rockefeller Bellagio Center in Italy hosts
conferences and residencies for scholars,
artists, and policy practitioners. Garris will
align programming at the Bellagio Center with
the Rockefeller Foundation's central
initiatives, including environment and climate
change, urbanization, basic survival needs
(health, water, nutrition, and economic growth),
social and economic security for the American
worker, and philanthropic work. Garris served
SIPA for eight years in a variety of
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Alumni
 Thomas Hull (MIA '73)
has received a Presidential
Meritorious Service Award, approved by President
Barack Obama, for his accomplishments as U.S.
ambassador to Sierra Leone from 2004 to 2007.
Hull is the Warburg Professor of Political
Science and International Relations
at Simmons College in Boston. More
David Mathison (MIA
'95) published Be the Media: How to
Create and Accelerate Your Message... Your
Way, a media handbook for journalists,
authors, entertainers, educators, students and
policymakers. More |
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In
the News
Iran:
After the Election: A conference hosted
by SIPA and the Middle East Institute, PBS
Scott Barrett
on the Copenhagen climate summit, World
Focus, Christian Science
Monitor
Elisabeth
Lindenmayer and Josie Lianna
Kaye on "Forty-One Days of Mediation in
Kenya," Kenya
Daily Nation
Dan Rosen
comments on specializing in Asian business
development, Nightly Business
Report on PBS. Watch the video. | Read the transcript.
Guillermo Calvo
on Dubai's debt crisis, New
York Times
James Rubin
writes on democracy and the Obama
administration, Newsweek
Gary Sick on
Iran's plans for new nuclear sites, Christian Science
Monitor
Jeffrey Sachs
on "What Makes a Nation Rich?" Esquire
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