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A Choice for Peace?
The Story of Forty-One Days of Mediation in Kenya
Post-election violence in Kenya in December 2007 resulted in the deaths of more than a thousand people, and left 300,000 people displaced. In January 2008, a panel chaired by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan led the 41 day peace process, culminating in the Agreement on the
Principles of Partnership of the Coalition Government.
A paper by Elisabeth Lindenmayer, director of SIPA's UN Studies Program, and Josie Lianna Kaye, assistant director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution, gives
a detailed account of the events which led up to this agreement. The paper was published by the International Peace Institute. |
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Social Norms and Agency in World Politics
The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies presents a seminar with Dr. Robert O. Keohane, Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University. November 12. More
Cast and Contemporary India
The South Asia Institute presents a two-day conference in honor of Columbia alumnus Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. The conference features a
conversation on "Affirmative Action, Law and Inequality in
India and the U.S.," with Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger, Pratap Mehta and Marc Galanter;
moderated by Nicholas B. Dirks.
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The "Great Recession" in Historical Perspective
A Committee on Global Thought discussion with Marcello De Cecco, Harold James, Lord Robert Skidelsky, and Joseph Stiglitz, considering the recession's historical impact and relation to past economic crises. October 14. More
Globalization After the Great Crisis of
2008-2009: Continuity or Fundamental Change?
Kemal Dervis, who has previously served as head of the UN Development Programme,
minister of economic affairs of Turkey and vice president of The World Bank,
will deliver the George Ball Lecture. November 19, 6:30 p.m., Room 1501, International Affairs Building.
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Faculty
Douglas Almond co-authored the article "Lingering prenatal effects of the 1918 influenza pandemic on cardiovascular disease" in the Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. Professor Almond, and co-authors Caleb Finch, Eileen Crimmins, Bhashkar Mazumder and Kyung Park, found people exposed to the H1N1 strain of influenza while in utero were more likely to have cardiovascular disease later in life.
 Maria Victoria Murillo published the book Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities. Professor Murillo examines policy making in the Latin American electricity and telecommunication sectors.
Wolfram Schlenker co-authored a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, examining crops' sensitivities to temperatures. Professor Schlenker and co-author Michael Roberts demonstrate that yields of corn, soybeans and cotton would increase gradually between 50 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit, then fall after reaching a certain temperature. Read a summary of the study from Environmental Protection Online.
Robert Lieberman co-edited the book Democratization in America: A Comparative-Historical Analysis. Professor Lieberman, and co-editors Desmond King, Gretchen Ritter and Laurence Whitehead, examine democracy's development in the United States, demonstrating how
that process has shaped - and continues to shape - the American
political system.
 Stephen Sestanovich has joined the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Professor Sestanovich was elected to a three-year term in June 2009, and joins Martin Frost, Princeton Lyman and Will Marshall as new members of the NED board. Sestanovich is the George F. Kennan senior fellow at the
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Professor of International Diplomacy at SIPA. More
Jeffrey Sachs
was honored with the Prix Galien USA Pro Bono Humanum Award. Professor
Sachs was recognized for the Millennium Villages, a project which has
helped rural African communities and close to half a million people
lift themselves out of extreme poverty by providing basic interventions
that address needs in business development, food, health,
infrastructure and education. Barry Bloom of the Harvard School of
Public Health was also recognized. More
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 SIPA Challenge: Columbia University's greatest benefactor, John Kluge (CC '37), has agreed to allow the University to designate $30 million of his $400 million bequest intention to build the financial aid endowment at SIPA. The school will use $25 million of Mr. Kluge's gift to establish the "SIPA Challenge" program. All future gifts of $100,000 or more for financial aid endowment at SIPA will be matched 1:1. The remaining $5 million of Mr. Kluge's gift will be used to create Kluge fellowships. More
The Road to Copenhagen: In December 2009, representatives from nearly 200 nations will convene in Copenhagen, Denmark to consider measures to address climate change. In advance of this UN summit, SIPA has co-hosted several distinguished guests for lectures and panel discussions. Watch the videos here.
Top Five Faculty:
SIPA recognizes excellence in teaching through two annual awards, the Distinguished Teaching Award and, in a new award established this fall by Dean John H. Coatsworth, the Top Five teachers from each semester the previous year. The awards are based on rankings on two questions in the quantitative portion of the SIPA course evaluation, students' overall evaluation of the course and their overall evaluation of the instructor. More
THINKING BIG New York and London: Heading Back to the Top:
In SIPA's first Global Mayors Forum, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and London Mayor Boris Johnson addressed a variety of issues facing their respective cities, including the future of the cities' financial sectors, economic diversification, affordable housing and more. Read more about the forum here.
Watch the video here.
 Capstone Workshop: Women and Property Rights in Uganda: People and communities who understand their property rights are usually more empowered to defend them. In a SIPA Capstone Workshop, a student team traveled to Uganda to develop a system intended to track the progress of the Women's Land, Housing and Property Rights Project. The project is attempting to empower and educate women about their rights with respect to land, housing and property ownership. Read the team's final report. |
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Alumni
Ashley Cotton (EMPA '09) was named to City Hall magazine's "Rising Stars: 40 Under 40" list. Cotton is Vice-President for Government and Community Relations with the New York City Economic Development Corporation.
She says she took the job on the
advice of a Columbia professor "who told her it was the perfect place to
work in the midst of an economic crisis." More
 Joshua Levine (MIA '00, IF '99) was named one of
Institutional Investor News' 2009 Rising Stars of Hedge Funds. Levine is a Senior Vice President with Permal Group Inc. The awards
program "recognizes up-and-coming professionals from across the hedge fund
community who have achieved a demonstrable level of success in their careers
to-date, have shown a commitment to continued growth and contributions to the
industry, and are poised to evolve into leaders in their fields." More |
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In the News
Joseph Stiglitz on the financial crisis and capitalism, A webcast from The New Yorker
Gary Sick on Iran and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, New York Times, NPR
Jeffrey Sachs writes "America has passed on the
baton", Financial Times
Lincoln Mitchell on Georgia and the breakaway territories, BBC
Jeffrey Sachs writes about the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Scott Barrett on climate change legislation, The Economist
Elisabeth Lindenmayer on the United Nations and the global financial crisis, Jerusalem Post
Kenneth Prewitt on "One Person, One Vote?", New York Times
Joseph Stiglitz on the GDP as a measure of economic health, New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg
Robert
Jervis writes on the U.S. war in Afghanistan, Foreign Policy
Steven Cohen on heckling the President, Associated Press
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