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SUMMARY:Alternatives to Incarceration in Latin America and the Caribbean
DESCRIPTION:Drug laws and the region’s untenable prison crisis are at the center of the drug policy debate in Latin America and the Caribbean. The incarceration of low-level drug offenders for exceptionally long sentences has left the region’s prisons bursting at the seams; the impact is not only felt by those incarcerated\, but also by their families and communities. Cutting edge research by the Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho (Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law\, CEDD) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) sheds new light on the problem and efforts to address it through alternatives to incarceration. \nThe latest investigation carried out by CEDD\, which brings together researchers from 9 Latin American countries\, shows that despite the lively debate taking place across the region\, the number of people incarcerated for drug offenses continues to grow. The SSRC’s Drugs\, Security and Democracy (DSD) Program is carrying out an investigation on drug courts in Latin America and the Caribbean. The research to date offers an analysis and critique of drug courts as a public policy option that is increasingly under consideration by Latin American and Caribbean countries\, and the lessons to be learned from the U.S. experience. The session will conclude with a discussion of other alternatives to incarceration\, including measures taken prior to the initiation of a criminal proceeding.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/alternatives-to-incarceration-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-2/
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SUMMARY:Bi-Annual Fellows Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Nairobi\, Kenya – Fellows from the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC) Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) program gathered in Nairobi\, Kenya\, during the second week of January for the 14th bi-annual fellows workshop.  The event was held in partnership with United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa)\, and in collaboration with the SSRC’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) program\, which held its grantees workshop from January 9-11\, 2019. \n28 doctoral dissertation proposal development and research fellows from eight African countries were joined by five dynamic workshop facilitators and convened in Nairobi for the three-day event.  The workshop was designed to help early-career faculty engage in scholarly reflections\, research and writing.  Activities included a series of plenary lectures along with working and one-on-one sessions with facilitators on interdisciplinary perspectives relating to peace\, security and development. \nDuring the workshop\, dissertation proposal development fellows worked on creating networks while refining\, developing and strengthening research questions.  They also learned to align research questions to methods\, engage key literature in their fields\, and finalize their dissertation proposals.  Dissertation research fellows focused on further developing and strengthening their research while engaging with key literature in their fields\, preparing to embark on fieldwork-based research\, and developing their capacity for scholarly writing\, including academic publications. \nProfessor Paul Zeleza\, vice-chancellor of USIU-Africa\, opened the workshop on the first day with a brilliant keynote titled “Reckoning with the Pasts and Reimagining the Futures of African Studies for the 21st Century.”  He presented an engaging history of the development of African Studies and the struggle to decolonize the humanities and social sciences in Africa and ended with a call to action urging the discipline to confront its “racialized and racially fraught” history and abandon Euro/America-centric African Studies. \nThe following day\, a panel chaired by Ron Kassimir\, vice president of programs at the SSRC\, was convened to discuss “The State of Social Science Research in Africa: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives.”  Panelists included Dr. Mutuma Ruteere\, director of the Center for Human Rights and Policy Studies (CHRIPS)\, Steve Ouma Akoth\, director of The Pamoja Trust\, Anthony Diala\, a senior lecturer at the University of the Western Cape\, Joyce Omwoha\, a lecturer at the Technical University of Kenya\, and Charles Ukeje\, a professor at Obafemi Awolowo University. The panel included a conversation between the panelists and fellows in which questions were raised interrogating the practical limits of social science research and how knowledge could be disseminated more broadly. \nOn January 9\, workshop attendees participated in the first-ever joint session between APN and Next Gen\, designed to build synergies between the two programs and foster new connections between fellows and grantees.  This inaugural and historical event was headlined by a distinguished keynote from Ambassador Macharia Kamau\, the Kenyan Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  In his keynote\, Ambassador Kamau stressed the importance of peace\, security and stability and how fundamental they are in the transformation of peoples’ lives for the development of society.  He notably stated that\, “We live in an over-securitized and over-militarized world that has led to an underappreciation for peacebuilding initiatives that help sustain new democracies that create more inclusive societies.” \nAfter the morning’s joint session\, fellows and grantees from both programs visited the national Commission for Science\, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI) where they were given a brief but illuminating presentation on how the organization was working to integrate science and technology into the daily lives of Kenyans.  Representatives from NACOSTI also discussed the process of being granted clearance in Kenya to conduct research\, which many bourgeoning research fellows found profoundly helpful. \nRon Kassimir\, who represented the SSRC at both workshops\, remarked that\, “With the quality of the discussions\, and the warm collegiality with which the participants engaged each other\, the workshop exceeded our (already) high hopes.”
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/bi-annual-fellows-workshop/
LOCATION:United States International University-Africa\, Nairobi\, Kenya
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SUMMARY:The Other Uncertainty: Social\, Political\, and Cultural Forms of Uncertainty in Weather Contexts.
DESCRIPTION:Earlier this month\, program staff from SSRC’s Scholarly Borderlands initiative attended the Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Phoenix\, where they hosted a series of panels entitled “The Other Uncertainty: Social\, Political\, and Cultural Forms of Uncertainty in Weather Contexts.” These multidisciplinary panels aimed to bring deeper understanding of the complex social aspects of uncertainty into conversation with a field that is primarily focused on eliminating uncertainty from probabilistic forecasting models. Invited speakers from across the social sciences spoke to the myriad sources of individual\, social\, and cultural ambiguity that emerge\, interact\, operate\, and propagate throughout the life cycle of hazardous weather events which are far less understood. \nOver the course of the presentations\, several themes emerged. The first concerned how individuals and groups interpret and process uncertainty and risk after it is communicated. Susan Joslyn (University of Washington) explained that this requires an understanding of the different mental models and schemata that people have to process information\, and therefore an understanding of the educational\, cultural\, and social diversity of what are in fact many “publics”. To understand how this information is then processed and shared\, Melissa Bica (University of Colorado\, Boulder) discussed the uses of qualitative methods to analyze social media engagement with images that depict probabilities and uncertainty over the course of extreme weather events.   Panelists also stressed that uncertainty is not merely a condition or context- it can be conceptualized as a produced commodity or a political tool\, especially concerning marginalized groups. Amber Wutich (Arizona State University)\, emphasized the importance of examining uncertainty both up and down the power continuum\, as it plays a drastically different role in each context. Likewise\, who decides what an “acceptable” level of uncertainty is and where that threshold lies for various populations is an incredibly political situation. Robert Soden\, (University of Colorado- Boulder)\, drew on his experience working on federal flood insurance maps to depict just how political the process of determining risk can be\, as government agencies and property owners attempt to resist and influence where supposedly objective lines of flood risk and probability are drawn. \nWhen examining the uncertainty that arises from extreme weather events\, social science methods and perspectives can help give a more nuanced view of how people process risk and make decisions in uncertain contexts. Jenniffer Santos-Hernández (University of Puerto Rico- Rio Piedras)\, observed that while much effort goes into giving people in uncertain situations the illusion of control\, this should not be the goal of weather scholars or practitioners. A more productive engagement with uncertainty acknowledges that is not a thing that can in fact be eradicated – while forecasters strive to provide the most accurate information in a clear way\, the goal is for people to make informed decisions based on a better understanding of their own circumstantial level of risk. Rather than prescribing what the “right” decision is for an individual\, family\, or group in an extreme weather situation\, social science research designed with inclusion in mind from the start (Tamara Marcus\, University of New Hampshire) offer a means to understand decision-making and behavioral processes to empower people in times of uncertainty. \nMore information about the panelists who participated in these sessions can be found here. A full recording of the day’s sessions will available through the American Meteorological Society.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/the-other-uncertainty-social-political-and-cultural-forms-of-uncertainty-in-weather-contexts/
LOCATION:American Meterological Society Annual Meeting
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