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Professor Dorian Warren is providing analysis of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement in lower Manhattan for a variety of national news outlets, including ABC News.
“Think Facebook or twitter," he said. "These protesters have adopted that same decentralized structure. There’s no one leader. It’s not top-down. It's much more democratic, much more ‘open-source.’”
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Even before the 2010 earthquake that devastated much of Haiti, the nation was dealing with another catastrophe in the making. After decades of harvesting, less than three percent of Haiti’s original forests are intact.
A SIPA Capstone workshop team joined the Earth Institute in research that will drive eventual recommendations to the United Nations.
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“Like those of us in the United States whose entire political conscience was formed in the decade since 9/11, there is a generation of Israelis and Palestinians who have known in each other only conflict—and accept this as the norm.”
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Pakistan Today: Domestic Challenges and External Pressures, October 6
Muslim American Citizenship: A Decade Since 9/11, October 7
Natural Disasters and Sustainable Development, October 11
Leaders in Global Energy: Electricity Grid and System Operation, October 17
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Professor John Micgiel, director of Columbia’s East Central European Center, was awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
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Franziska Brantner (MIA ’04), a member of European Parliament, was named by Diplomatic Courier as one of its Top 9 Most Influential International Professionals Under 33.
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Jagdish Bhagwati talks about the trade and economic relationship between emerging markets and the U.S.,
Bloomberg
Steven Cohen discusses public/private funding of infrastructure,
The Capitol
Jeffrey Sachs says Congressman Paul Ryan’s proposal would “kill our government,”
CNN
Stuart Gottlieb on the need for “green” jobs vs. the need for “more” jobs,
Dorian Warren on Herman Cain and “brainwashed” African-Americans,
MSNBC
Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador, took on the media in a lecture co-sponsored by SIPA,
Reuters
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Michelle Moghtader (MIA '12): Death at the State's Hands ... and the Approving Crowd,
PBS Frontline
Gary Sick: Ahmadinejad and Columbia University: The Inside Story,
Gary's Choices
Howard Friedman features the photography of Maria Wang (MPA DP '12) during her work last summer in Timor-Leste,
The Huffington Post
Stuart Gottlieb calls the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen "excellent counterterrorism,"
Politico
Anne Nelson: Social Good Summit: Digital Philanthropy Grows Up,
PBS MediaShift
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Nadia Hasham (MIA ’12), far right, spent last summer in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India working on a pilot study for an SMS-based vaccination reminder project for mothers with newborns. She is at a government hospital with the first mother to enroll in the program and receive an SMS message.
The program was a joint project between the India-based NGO Developmental Medical Foundation and the U.S.-based company Medic Mobile.
Read more about Nadia's experience.
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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