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Nov 19, 2013 • By Michael Aryee It is was during a recent a discussion in finance class, of all places, that I finally thought through a phenomenon that has increasingly troubled me as of late. In our analysis of the World Bank’s decision to help finance a $3.7 billion oil pipeline project, with an estimated $1.8 billion total...
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Nov 5, 2013 • By Marina Gabriel The New School recently hosted a Center for Public Scholarship event entitled “Syrian Higher Education in Crisis; The Road Forward.” The panel presentation aimed to provide the international community with ways to support Syrian academics and students. Syrian University in Exile Scholars Amal Alachkar of the University of California, Irvine and Moaath...
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Oct 25, 2013 • By Meredith O’Connell As a feminist international affairs graduate student, female empowerment and education equality are the nearest and dearest issues to my heart, so it was fitting that my first visit to the United Nations was for the Day of the Girl Child celebration. In 2011, the UN declared October 11th the international day...
Years before the civil war in El Salvador officially began, government-funded death squads had been killing and disappearing those identified as anti-government dissenters—including clergy, community and union organizers, students and professors—in a conflict that pitted a few elite families allied with the military against the vast majority of the population who lived in crushing poverty. After...
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Apr 23, 2013 • Here’s a roundup of (most) of the papers being presented April 23rd at the GPIA Conference at the New School Hirshon suite, 55W.13th Street, 2nd floor 9:30am-6:30 pm Share this:
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Apr 22, 2013 • By Senay Imre If you ever visit a Turkish Alevi home, it is likely that you will find hanging on the wall pictures of Ali, fourth caliph of Islam, and Kemal Ataturk, the founder of Turkish Republic next to each other. The Syrian crisis taking place on the southern border once again brought up the...
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Apr 19, 2013 • By Jonathan Leonard Our new social initiative, La Selva Guardia, presents the problems caused by the illegal extraction of Peruvian big-leafed mahogany trees. Facts presented are the results of preliminary research conducted for the lauch of our first Amazonian endeavor. We chose to create an illegal-logging initiative, in part, because of its clear sense of wrong...
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Apr 18, 2013 • By Rebekah Frank The day after Hurricane Sandy left large swaths of New York and New Jersey decimated, burnt and under water, I took a walk down to the Red Hook neighborhood in Brooklyn to survey the damage. I was shocked by what I saw— Share this:
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Apr 12, 2013 • In 1993 my parents moved our family of five from Venezuela to the United States. I was only 5 years old. Somewhere along the way, I began the struggle to define my own identity. Share this:
Is access to clean water a basic human right? The customary response for most people is yes, of course, but still an estimated 1.4 billion people currently lack access to safe drinking water. And this is just one of the many water issues that plague the world today. Share this:
When private-run daily newspapers finally made it to the newsstands in Myanmar last Monday for the first time in 50 years, Myanmar nationals and press freedom advocates had reason to celebrate. Before April 1, state-controlled media in Myanmar had a monopoly over daily news publications, as privately owned newspapers were limited by law to weekly...
Ecuador doesn’t often grab international headlines, but questions about its current course have relevance for the Western Hemisphere and beyond. What kind of leader is Rafael Correa? Is he a popular anti-imperial economist who champions 21st century socialism and rejects the “Washington Consensus” while protecting ecosystems by limiting oil production in vital wetlands? Or...
