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The CEO of the African Union’s development agency NEPAD – the New Partnership for Africa's Development – visited SIPA last week. Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki addressed the founding and progress of NEPAD over the past decade, noting improvements they have made, criticism they have faced, and the challenges ahead.
“We must recognize Africa has made progress, with some limitations.”
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Dan Viederman (MIA ‘92) was named 2011 Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Viederman is CEO of Verité, a global NGO which works with companies, suppliers, and governments worldwide to create and maintain fair labor conditions.
“Our role is to push globalization toward helping the most vulnerable people. Companies come to us because of some sort of crisis or because they decide there is a better way to do business.”
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The late Professor Manning Marable's book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, is a 2011 National Book Award finalist.
The culmination of his life’s work, the book is considered by many the definitive biography of the legendary black activist. Professor Marable died just days before its publication.
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The Arab Spring revealed the difficulties for the European Union to move as a single actor on the global stage. What is the role of Europe during these tumultuous events?
In a presentation on October 21, Zaki Laidi from the Center for European Studies at Sciences Po in Paris will discuss his research.
MPA in Environmental Science and Policy: Information Session, October 18
Do Local Elections in Germany Sway the Balkans' European Future? October 20
Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer: A Film Screening and Conversation, October 20
Karla Rivas, Honduran Radio Reporter, October 21
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José Antonio Ocampo on Latin America’s increased independence,
Bloomberg News
Steven Cohen discussed sustainability in the Big Apple,
Forbes
Gary Sick wrote “I find this alleged Iranian plot very hard to believe,”
CNN
Dorian Warren on Occupy Wall Street and the 1%,
MSNBC
Stuart Gottlieb: Will Occupy Wall Street awaken Nixon's latter-day “silent majority?”
Politico
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Mahmood Mamdani on the film “Prosecutor,” which follows the ICC's Luis Moreno-Ocampo,
PBS Newshour
John H. Coatsworth addressed Columbia’s pursuit of a high-tech campus,
Crain’s
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Ester Fuchs says NYC's workforce development strategy must focus on placement instead of careers,
Gotham Gazette
Angela Bao Beibei (MIA/JOUR '13) writes about her visit to Inner Mongolia in "Sheep, Wash Basin and Wind Turbine,"
Communiqué
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A group of students from SIPA’s
International Fellows Program and program director David Smith meet with Robert F. Kennedy during the program's formative years.
The International Fellows Program was founded in 1960, as a forum for students in diverse fields of study to examine a complex agenda of international problems. Today, the International Fellows Program is a two-semester seminar open to students of all graduate degree programs at Columbia University.
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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