*Highlights of Past Events*
Politics, Rights, & Development
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New York City is the headquarters of major political and economic organizations, advocacy groups, and non-governmental organizations. Students are invited to participate in a broad range of educational opportunities, e.g., to attend conferences on Trade and Development and Humanitarian issues at the United Nations; to hear lectures at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs; to visit NGO sites; and to listen to first-hand accounts from human rights advocates.
Please MEET SOME OF OUR STUDENTS.
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Guided Tour of the United Nations
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Guest Speakers
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CITTA
Students and Prof. Heidi White met Michael Daube, artist and founder of Citta, a non-profit that has built and sustained hospitals & schools in India & Nepal. Michael also spoke about his work with Mother Theresa.
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Global Justice Series
Guest speakers joined Prof. Heidi White and our PRD students.
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Tracing Memories, Bearing Witness and Reconciling Wounds: The 1968 My Lai Massacre
“Human beings are human insofar as they bear witness to the inhuman” (Agamben, 2012).Dr. ROY TAMASHIRO is a professor emeritus at Webster University. He has taught and published widely on museums and memory, peace pilgrimages, oral histories and witness testimonies of war trauma survivors, societal healing, and transformative learning. Hosted by Prof. Joyce Apsel and sponsored by Politics, Rights, & Development.
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WORKING TOWARD PEACE BUILDING:
STRATEGIES FOR CAREERS IN PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
A Talk with author DAVID J. SMITH–moderated by Dr. JOYCE APSEL
Sponsored by Politics, Rights, and Development
DAVID J. SMITH, JD, MS, discusses strategies for careers working toward peace and human rights from diplomacy and law to technology, NGOS and other opportunities. He is the author of Peace Jobs: A Student’s Guide to Starting a Career Working for Peace (2016), and a leading educator working for peace education and peace building (for over a decade at the US Institute for Peace in Washington, D.C. and now as President, Forage Center for Peace building and Humanitarian Education).
“It isn’t enough to talk about peace; one must believe in it. One must work with it.”
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Prof. Peter Diamond and PRD students attended a talk at the CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. Tarik Osman was interviewed by Lisa Anderson on “Islamism: What It Means for the Middle East and the World.” Osman is a political counsellor of the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development for the Arab world. His most recent book is entitled Islamism: What it Means for the Middle East and the World (Yale, 2016).
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The SYRIAN REFUGEE EXPERIENCE
Please join us for this special event! Sponsored by Politics, Rights, and Development and Dr. Heidi White -with Skype interview with one of the directors!
The young filmmakers Chris and Zach have raised over $490,000 directly for micro-finance loans, education scholarships, and refugee services around the world.
Salam Neighbor premiered at American Film Institute’s DOCS Film Festival in June 2015 on World Refugee Day. Chris and Zach are the first filmmakers allowed by the United Nations to be registered and to be given a tent inside a refugee camp anywhere in the world. Just 7 miles from the Syrian border, the two lived in the Za’atari refugee camp, a camp of 85,000 refugees.
“Salam Neighbor is a beautifully crafted story that delivers a powerful message. It will leave you touched and inspired to take action.
THIS FILM IS A MUST-SEE”
The UN Refugee Agency
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Dr. Joyce Apsel and Dr. Heidi White
FIFTEEN IN TOTAL, THE HIROSHIMA PANELS ARE MONUMENTAL, FOLDING WOOD PANELS COMPLETED BY JAPANESE COUPLE IRI AND TOSHI MARUKI OVER A SPAN OF THIRTY-TWO YEARS, from 1950-1982. In a classic byobu format, vacillating between photographic realness and abstraction, the panels complicate, challenge, and deepen common perceptions of the nuclear bombing and its aftermath. Sponsored by PRD.
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THE FRIDAY FORUM Special Guest – Hosted by Dr. Joyce Apsel
FEDERICO GAITAN HAIRABEDIAN, HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER
HUMAN RIGHTS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN ARGENTINA:
The Prosecution of Crimes Against Humanity
during 1976-1983 in Local Courts
SINCE 2003 MORE THAN PERPETRATORS WERE PROSECUTED AND CONVICTED IN FAIR TRIALS according to the Constitution and international human rights standards. These historic human right claims were turned into official state policies, contributing to positioning Argentina at the international human rights avant garde — delivering justice not only to victims of crimes committed in Argentina, but to other historic people´s claims of justice and fight against impunity like Armenian Genocide and Franquism crimes.
HAIRABEDIAN is a diplomat in International Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law at American University, Washington College of Law. He started his career working as a lawyer in the case “Truth Trial of Armenian Genocide,” which stated that “Turkey committed genocide against the Armenian people,” representing the Luisa Hairabedian Foundation.
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THE UNITED NATIONS
Guided Tour
of the United Nations
Approaches Course:
Global Justice & the Global Citizen
with Dr. Heidi White
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NYU’s
JOURNAL OF POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
FEATURED 4 ARTICLES BY GLS STUDENTS!
Submit your writing that addresses the current state of international affairs to jpia.club@nyu.edu. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.
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GLOBAL JUSTICE SERIES
Amnesty International, Rainforest Alliance, Idealist.org, and Equality Now.
*Learn how to get involved,
and learn how our guest speakers found the career of their dreams.
Hosted by PRD Chair, Dr. Heidi White
Learn More about local, national, and global activism and how to get involved from Ami Dar, founder and director of Idealist.org.
Built in 1996 with $3,500, Idealist.org has become one of the most popular nonprofit resources on the web, with information provided by 100,000 organizations around the world and millions of visitors every month.
Ami was born in Jerusalem, grew up in Peru and in Mexico, and lives in New York.
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Amnesty International is a global movement of people fighting injustice and promoting human rights. Learn more about our issues, campaigns, cases, victories and research in every country across the globe.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL GUEST VISIT
WITH AMITA TEAKAH, ESQ., VOLUNTEER LEADER
Co-organizer of the NYC-Young Professionals of Amnesty International and the Legislative Coordinator for NY State
www.amnestyusa.org
Did you know that Amnesty International has volunteers in more than 150 countries?
Learn more about their global activism and how to get involved from Amnesty International’s own Anita Teekah. Anita will also reflect on her own career path, her job as a lawyer, and her volunteer work with the organization. Hosted by Dr. Heidi White, Global Approaches “Global Justice & the Global Citizen” course
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Meriwether Hardie has diverse experience in project leadership, sustainability education, and remote wilderness exploration, and is the Senior Executive Associate at Rainforest Alliance, where she leads special projects.
The Rainforest Alliance works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.We envision a world where people and the environment prosper together. Hosted by Dr. Heidi White
Global Approaches “Global Justice & the Global Citizen” course
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Founded in 1992, Equality Now is an organization that advocates for the human rights of women and girls around the world by raising international visibility of individual cases of abuse, mobilizing public support through our global membership, and wielding strategic political pressure to ensure that governments enact or enforce laws and policies that uphold the rights of women and girls.
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FRIDAY FORUM – a discussion series
The Friday Forum is a GLS organization that meets to discuss a common author, book, work, or topic in the GLS curriculum. An invited faculty speaker will moderate the discussion. Our goal is to provide students of the GLS community with an opportunity to discuss ideas in an informal setting with their peers and with their professors. We hope to foster intellectual discussion, debate, and conviviality.
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CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
PRD Seniors visit the CARNEGIE COUNCIL
FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Series: Ethics Matter
“A Conversation with Will Kymlica on the Challenges of Multiculturalism” with Prof. Peter Diamond, GLS Senior Seminar: Nationalism and Democracy in an Age of Globalization, http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/calendar/data/0528.html
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GLS sophomores visit
THE TAMIMENT ARCHIVES AT BOBST LIBRARY
with curator Kate Donovan
Students examine GUM cards about the Spanish Civil War. Students in the photos are looking at a rare series of GUM cards with detailed paintings on one side and information on the other about the Spanish Civil War; these cards were part of a series of card produced in Philadelphia called Horrors of War. Hosted by Dr. Joyce Apsel Global Topics course: “Global Violence”
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PASOS: PEACE MUSEUM
“A Peace of Mind” photo essays by celebrated photographer John Noltner: “Through the diverse experiences of his subjects, Noltner sheds new light on the meaning of peace … and shares a very human story that both engages the mind and moves the heart.”
NYU Kimmel Center Stovall Gallery
60 Washington Square South, 8th floor
“A Peace of Mind” photo essays by celebrated photographer John Noltner: “Through the diverse experiences of his subjects, Noltner sheds new light on the meaning of peace … and shares a very human story that both engages the mind and moves the heart.”
Opening with music
and an introduction to the exhibit by John Noltner. The seniors will serve as docents for classes (from public schools to NYU classes).
Hosted by Dr. Joyce Apsel
PRD Senior Thesis course
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GUEST VISIT WITH AMI DAR
Founder and Director of idealist.org
http://www.idealist.org
“Our Mission: Idealist connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives. Idealist is independent of any government, political ideology, or religious creed. Our work is guided by the common desire of our members and supporters to find practical solutions to social and environmental problems, in a spirit of generosity and mutual respect.”
- Ami Dar with students & Dr. White
Hosted by Dr. Heidi White
Global Approaches “Global Justice & the Global Citizen” course
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HUMAN RIGHTS DISCUSSION with
DR. MOHAMED IBRAHIM ELGADI
Mohamed Ibrahim Elgadi of Sudan is a survivor of torture in Sudan and is living in the United States under political asylum. He earned his M.A. in Environmental Studies at the Univeristy of Khartoum and his Ph.D. in Education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. A committed activist on the American national stage and in international circles, Dr. Elgadi is the co-founder of the Philadelphia-based Darfur Alert Coalition, a Sudanese-American group of grassroots activists working on issues related to Darfur. He is the founder and chair of Group Against Torture in Sudan (GATS), an advocacy group working among Sudanese refugees, He also serves on the advisory committtee of Judgement on Genocide: International Citizens Tribunal for Sudan, a project that has created a forum for discussion of the genocide and crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Sudanese government led by President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
Dr. Elgadi and students
Dr. Mohamed Elgadi received the NYU Scholars at Risk/Vivian G. Prins Fellowship and is teaching a Human Rights capstone seminar in the NYU Global Liberal Studies Program.
Hosted by Dr. Emily Bauman and Dr. Heidi White
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GUIDED TOUR OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Hosted by Dr. Heidi White
Global Approaches
“Global Justice & the Global Citizen” course
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TOUR OF THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN FINANCE
Sponsored by DR. ASCENSION MEJORADO, the Economics Club, and Politics, Rights, and Development
The Museum of American Finance is the nation’s only independent museum dedicated to preserving, exhibiting and teaching about American finance and financial history. Housed in an historic bank building on Wall Street, the Museum’s magnificent grand mezzanine banking hall provides an ideal setting for permanent exhibits on the financial markets, money, banking, entrepreneurship and Alexander Hamilton.
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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO UNEMPLOYMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC POLICY
A Talk with Guest Speaker Dr. Pavlina Tcherneva, Associate Professor and director of the economics program at Bard College and Research Associate at the Levy Economics Institute. Sponsored by Politics, Rights, and Development and hosted by Dr. ASCENSION MEJORADO
“Unemployment doesn’t harm only the unemployed but also their children and families. The social and economic costs of unemployment spread throughout society in destructive ways, like an infectious disease. As such, the policy response should aim at “inoculation against unemployment, not at countering its effects.”
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The GLOBAL WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN ACTION series
Guest Speaker: APARNA MEHROTA,
Senior Advisor UNITED NATIONS FOCAL POINT FOR WOMEN, BASED AT THE UNWOMEN, THE UN FOCAL POINT FOR WOMEN
Aparna Mehrota serves as the chief advocate for monitoring and improving the status of women across the system. Chief functions include: supporting UN Women to report on the status of women to the General Assembly and Commission on the Status of Women.
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GLOBAL WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN ACTION
Women For Afghan Women. Two special guests from Women for Afghan Women will join us to discuss WORKING FOR AFGHAN WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND FREEDOM. Sponsored by Dr. Minu Tharoor & PRD
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:
Deconstructing Prevention:
THE THEORY, POLICY, AND PRACTICE OF MASS ATROCITY PREVENTION
Cardozo Law School
GLS students had the opportunity to hear and meet a range of practitioners from the UN, US State Department to Legal Counsel for the African Union Commission. The course’s instructor Joyce Apsel is President of the Institute for the Study of Genocide, one of the co-sponsors of the conference. Hosted by Dr. Joyce Apsel
PRD Senior Thesis Course
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