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Japanese Disaster Impacts SIPA
When a tragedy occurs anywhere in the world, it hits home with SIPA’s global community. Our hearts and minds are with the people of Japan, our 53 current Japanese students, and more than 450 alumni residing there. Alumna Aiko Doden (MIA ’96), a journalist with Japan’s NHK television network, is tweeting about the disaster.
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SIPA students have leapt into action. The New Media Task Force is mapping the crisis by monitoring news/social media and other online sources. The team is seeking Japanese speakers, but anyone can volunteer.
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Tackling State Budget Crises
SIPA’s 14 th David N. Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum on April 11 will focus on the steep challenges confronting state and local governments, businesses, and organized labor. Former New York Mayor David Dinkins teaches in SIPA’s Urban and Social Policy program; the forum keynoter is Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York).
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From SIPA to Cairo: Lisa Anderson's View of the Uprisings
Lisa Anderson, President of the American University in Cairo and former Dean of SIPA, returned to New York for a lively discussion with students on March 21. Michelle Chahine (MIA '12) blogs about her visit: “Note that Ben Ali in Tunisia was exiled from the country. Mubarak was allowed to stay home. He is in internal exile at his palace in Sharm el Sheikh. Qaddafi is most likely going to die… And that tells you something about the different regimes, revolutions and reconstruction.”
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Samantha Power will deliver the Blinken Lecture on March 28 in a visit co-hosted by the European Institute and SIPA. Power, who serves as Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director of Multilateral Affairs at the National Security Council, played a key role in the White House's decision to support strikes against Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi.
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Alumnus’ Brush with Qaddafi Leads to Charity Venture
After rebuffing Muammar Qaddafi in his quest to rent a New York townhouse in 2009, SIPA alumnus and New York broker Jason Haber (MPA ’06) saw the chance to combine real estate with social consciousness. Haber’s new brokerage contributes dollars from each sale to “Charity: Water,” a nonprofit that provides clean drinking water for developing countries.
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Policing in Pakistan
An understaffed and underequipped police force in Pakistan is called on more frequently to manage militant violence and counterterrorism issues. Hassan Abbas, Quaid-i-Azam Professor at SIPA and the South Asia Institute, published a report for the United States Institute of Peace on the obstacles and benefits to upgrading the Pakistani police force.
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50 Years of the Peace Corps: The Shock of Coming Home
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps. SIPA student and volunteer Apryl Gibson (MIA '12) writes for The Morningside Post about reverse culture shock - the trauma of returning to the United States: “…27 months in the skin of another culture tends to change a person – especially when one lives and works at the community level. It has been said that no service organization is more ‘grassroots’ than Peace Corps, and volunteers are encouraged to ‘go native.’”
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Coming Up at SIPA…
March 25 - 26: The Pan-African Network co-hosts the "2011 African Economic Forum."
March 28: The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies co-hosts “United States Policy in the Middle East.”
April 6: The United Nations Studies Program presents "A Day at the UN."
April 14: SIPA’s Global Leadership Awards Dinner will honor Paul Volcker, WITNESS, and alumnus Mitchell Silber. NBC News' Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd will emcee.
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Professor Jeffrey Sachs (right) introduced a group of students to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Mwandama, Malawi. The students are in SIPA's Master of Public Administration in Development Practice program and spent last summer conducting field internships with the Millennium Villages Project. Left to right: Fumi Tosu, Megan Cassidy, Jessica Lustbader, and Eric Couper.
This newsletter is distributed by the Office of Communications and External Relations at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Contact Alex Burnett at 212-851-1818 or
alex.burnett@sipa.columbia.edu.
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