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SUMMARY:2022 SSRC Katznelson Fellow Lecture: Mario Small
DESCRIPTION:Live Stream  ▼ \nMario Small \nQuetelet Professor of Social Science at Columbia University \nwho will speak on \nWhy Big Data Science Will Need Qualitative Research:\nA Case on Racial Inequality in Financial Access \nfollowed by a response from \nSandra Susan Smith \nDaniel & Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice\, Harvard Kennedy School\nDirector\, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy \n––––––––––––– \nFriday\, September 23\, 2022\n1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Eastern \n\nAbout the Lecture The data revolution in social science has inspired researchers to use massive\, newly available datasets from private and public sources to understand social phenomena. The trend may suggest to some that small-scale qualitative networks will eventually become obsolete. Dr. Mario Small\, Quetelet Professor of Social Science at Columbia University\, argues\, however\, that the data revolution has made qualitative research more essential\, in order to ensure that “big data” result in real science. In this lecture\, Professor Small will illustrate this point\, based on a study using Google Maps data and running more than 6 million queries\, in order to understand racial inequality in access to financial services across US cities. The study makes clear\, as noted in this article\, that fully unlocking the potential of large-scale data will require qualitative methods. The SSRC Katznelson Fellowship is part of the SSRC Fellow Initiative\, which invites distinguished scholars to the Council to share their work. About Mario Small \nMario L. Small\, PhD.\, is Quetelet Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. A University of Bremen Excellence Chair\, and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences\, and the Sociological Research Association\, Small has published award-winning articles and books on urban inequality\, personal networks\, and the relationship between qualitative and quantitative methods. His books include Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio\, Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life — both of which received the C. Wright Mills Award for Best Book — and Someone To Talk To: How Networks Matter in Practice\, which received the James Coleman Best Book Award among other honors. His most recent edited book\, Personal Networks: Classic Readings and New Directions in Egocentric Analysis\, with 50 contributors\, is a comprehensive guide to person-centered social network analysis. Small is currently studying the relationship between networks and decision-making\, the ability of large-scale data to answer critical questions about urban inequality\, and the relation between qualitative and quantitative methods. \n 
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/2022-ssrc-fellow-lecture-mario-small/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Casablanca:20220926T080000
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SUMMARY:APN-Next Gen Joint Research Methods Workshop in Partnership with AIPECT
DESCRIPTION:The Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC’s) African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) programs held their joint Research Methods Workshop in Casablanca\, Morocco in partnership with the African Institute for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation (AIPECT) on Sept 26-29\, 2022. \nThe event commenced with opening remarks by Dr. Fred Palm\, the vice president of the SSRC\, and Dr. Cyril Obi\, the program director of APN and Next Gen. This was followed by the introduction of SSRC fellows and workshop facilitators by Dr. Duncan Omanga\, the senior program officer of APN and Next Gen. Dr. Mohammed Gain\, the president of the African Institute for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation (AIPECT)\, introduced the guest of honor and president of the Moroccan Economic\, Social and Environmental Council (ESEC) Ahmed Reda Chami\, who made his welcome remarks. \nThe workshop marked the program’s resumption of in-person convenings after the pandemic. It brought together the 2022 cohort of 18 APN fellows and 42 Next Gen fellows from over 15 African countries. Participants benefited from keynote lectures\, small working groups\, one-on-one sessions\, and a joint panel discussion\, as well as a day trip to research and policy institutions in Rabat. The three-day workshop provided fellows with the opportunity to present their proposals\, chapters\, and projects in small workshop groups facilitated by experienced facilitators who were senior and experienced scholars. They also received feedback from and provided feedback to other fellows’ work. The facilitators also held one-on-one sessions during which they provided each fellow with detailed comments and further guidance on refining their research questions\, strengthening their research methods\, and fleshing out the theoretical frameworks of their proposals before heading out to the field to collect data for their projects. \nProf. Mwenda Ntarangwi\, provost in charge of academics\, students\, and research at NIRUC\, a constituent college of the NDU-Kenya\, delivered the first keynote lecture on “Social Science Research in Africa in an Age of Disruptions.” The lecture was guided by the key question\, “who are you writing for?” while urging participants to “tell the African story.”  He outlined disruptions\, related to history\, economics\, politics\, culture\, digital technologies\, and biology\, which have shaped social science research in Africa. Recounting his personal experience\, Prof. Ntarangwi advised fellows to work hard on their research\, scholarly writing\, and dissemination of their findings to “change the overwhelming reality of Africans as objects to be studied and represented by others to subjects who study and represent themselves.” He concluded by inviting fellows to consider two approaches to research; the first one being an “Afrocentric framing of research questions and practices” which begins with the “assertion that Africans are subjects and agents of their own lived realities as opposed to being objects within a Western frame of reference.” The second approach pertains to in-depth qualitative research “that allows for a more nuanced un­derstanding of social realities that are lived out and expressed by the people [fellows] study.” \nOn Day 2\, Dr. Thomas Molony\, senior lecturer in African Studies at the Centre of African Studies\, University of Edinburgh\, gave the second keynote lecture titled: “Observations on Observation.” He explored what it means to observe in the context of positionality\, that is\, the effect of who the researcher is\, in terms of identity and background\, in relation to the group being studied. He used the example of his participation as an international election observer in the recent Kenyan elections to guide the discussions and research questions\, methods of data collection\, and the impact of one’s research on knowledge production. \nThis was followed by a trip to places of interest and two institutions in Rabat: the Economic\, Social and Environmental Council (ESEC) and the Rabita Mohammadia of Oulamas (Mohammadia League of Scholars). It was a great opportunity to learn more about Morocco\, particularly the work and activities of some institutions in the areas of African development\, solidarity\, integration\, and peacebuilding. At the ESEC\, we listened to informative presentations by Younes Benakki\, secretary-general of ESEC\, and Hashim El Ayoubi\, a senior expert in charge of international cooperation\, on the institution’s advisory missions for the adoption of a development charter for Africa\, including a road map for sustainability\, economic cooperation\, and regional integration\, and the ESEC’s role in exploring the opportunities and challenges facing climate action on the continent. The group also visited the Rabita Mohammadia of Oulamas (Mohammadia League of Scholars) where Yassin Ben Larab\, a member of the secretariat general of the Rabita Mohammadia\, gave an address on the role of the institution in promoting a tolerant and open form of Islam\, organizing conferences and outreach activities\, and supporting the research and publications of Islamic scholars. Other aspects of his presentation focused on the promotion of Islamic education and sensitization programs for advancing moderate Islamic values such as tolerance\, peaceful co-existence\, and reconciliation among young people. He also spoke to the work of the Rabita on the design and implementation of a program directed at the deradicalization\, rehabilitation\, and reintegration of extremists and returning ex-fighters in Moroccan prisons. Workshop participants also took time off to visit other local attractions and markets in Rabat before having dinner at a traditional Moroccan restaurant. \nOn the third and final day\, the workshop rounded off the one-on-one sessions and held an engaging panel discussion on “Navigating Academic Research and Scholarly Traditions in a Changing World\,” moderated by Dr. Duncan Omanga. The panelists were Prof. Ismail Rashid\, Kafui Tsekpo\, Prof. Nana Akua Anyidoho\, Prof. Eunice Kamara\, Haydee Bangerezako\, and Prof. Gilbert Khadiagala. The panelists critically interrogated what “good research methods” mean in a knowledge economy that is transnational\, collaborative\, and competitive from an African perspective. They emphasized the importance of history\, the politics of knowledge production\, and the positionality of African researchers in shaping methodologies that are relevant\, valid\, and locally rooted in African epistemologies and how to make such Africa-focused research globally competitive and visible.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/apn-joint-research-methods-workshop-in-partnership-with-the-aipect/
LOCATION:Casablanca\, Morocco
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SUMMARY:APN-Next Gen Outreach to Kenya: Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST)
DESCRIPTION:The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program\, which are part of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)\, have been engaged in outreach to African universities with the goal of reaching graduate schools in African countries whose students have not received fellowship awards from either program. Specifically\, the university outreach program amplifies the reach of ongoing competitions by providing information and advice on navigating the fellowship application process\, including testimonials from former APN and Next Gen fellows on their experiences with the fellowships and the opportunities provided. Ultimately\, the overall objective is to diversify the application pool of the APN and Next Gen fellowships and awards. \nThe program held its first in-person outreach event in Kenya on October 21\, 2022. The outreach program was co-organized with and held at the Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) main campus in Kakamega County. \nThe SSRC was represented by APN/Next Gen Senior Program Officer\, Dr. Duncan Omanga\, who also presented the opening remarks of Dr. Cyril Obi\, the APN/Next Gen Program Director. He led a delegation that included Dr. John Mwangi (Next Gen alumnus & 2021 IRF APN fellow)\, Dr. Linnet Hamasi (2019 APN IRF fellow)\, Moses Osiro (2019 Next Gen Proposal fellow)\, Graham Amakanji (2021 Next Gen research & 2022 Next Gen completion fellow)\, and Dr. Steve Akoth (chair of the Next Gen selections and advisory board). \nAt the university\, the team was received by acting Vice Chancellor\, Dr. Rose Auma\, who formally opened the event\, and Prof. Stephen Odebero\, the director of graduate studies\, who also led the local organizing committee. Other senior faculty who graced the event were Prof. Judah Mwaluko\, the acting deputy Vice Chancellor of Academics and Student Affairs\, as well as Prof. Pontian Godfrey Okoth\, the chair of the MMUST board of graduate studies. The meeting was attended by over 200 graduate students\, most of whom were early career faculty members\, drawn from the main campus and the three other MMUST campuses (Kaimosi University College\, Kibabii University College\, and Turkana University College). The students came from a diversity of disciplines such as history\, peace and conflict studies\, communication studies\, economics\, education\, linguistics\, agriculture\, public health\, and nursing. \nDr. John Mwangi explained to the audience how\, despite being a Next Gen alumnus\, he eventually won an APN fellowship after trying three times. Dr. Hamasi\, a former graduate student at MMUST\, urged the graduate students to read widely and prepare well-thought-out proposals as the APN and NextGen fellowships are highly competitive. Mr. Osiro gave insights into how the two workshops he attended in Ghana (Research Methods Workshop) and Tanzania (Writing Workshop) helped him complete and produce a robust PhD proposal in 2019/2020. For his part\, Mr. Amakanji shared his experience of how he came to know about the fellowship and how attending the various workshops expanded his academic networks\, as well as how these networks shaped how he thinks about his ongoing PhD project. Dr. Akoth gave insights into the goals of the program\, and further explained the role of the advisory and selections committee in facilitating the process of nominating fellows for each cohort. Dr. Omanga shared program data explaining trends in applications\, as well as funded proposals across disciplines\, universities\, and individual African countries. He also drew from summarized reviewer reports to give insights into what makes a proposal competitive. \nThanks to the outstanding team at MMUST led by Prof. Odebero. The meeting was extraordinarily successful and enthusiastically attended.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/african-peacebuilding-network-and-next-generation-social-sciences-in-africa-outreach-to-kenya-masinde-muliro-university-of-science-and-technology-mmust/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T093000
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SUMMARY:CPPF Meeting on Ethiopia
DESCRIPTION:On 27 October CPPF convened a meeting on Ethiopia at the request of the UN Eastern Africa Division of DPPA\, the meeting aimed to discuss the current conflict in northern Ethiopia and its implications\, as well as the likely scenarios to unfold.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/cppf-meeting-on-ethiopia/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221105
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SUMMARY:China and the Global South Workshop
DESCRIPTION:On 3-4 November 2022\, the China and the Global South workshop was held at the Penn Club\, the workshop brought together scholars from different parts of the world to discuss the preliminary findings of the China and the Global South Project and strategies for building sustainable research capacity on China’s engagement with the Global South
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/china-and-the-global-workshop/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221112
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SUMMARY:Great Lakes Stakeholders and Experts Retreat
DESCRIPTION:On 10-11 November 2022\, CPPF held the 5th Great Lakes Stakeholders and Experts Retreat in Nairobi\, Kenya. This retreat brought together Special Envoys and international decision makers representing regional institutions\, member states\, and peace operations\, together with scholars and expert practitioners on and from the Great Lakes.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/great-lakes-stakeholders-and-experts-retreat/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221119T170000
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SUMMARY:African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC’s) African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) programs hosted two panels at the 2022 African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia on November 17-19. The panels were an opportunity for current and former fellows of the program to showcase their research findings\, connect with peers from across the world\, and receive feedback from conference participants. \nThe first panel\, titled “Digital Cultures\, Voice and (New) Forms of Civic Participation in Africa\,” was chaired by Dr. Duncan Omanga and featured Dr. Charles Prempeh (Next Gen fellow\, 2016)\, Dr. Toyin Ajao (Next Gen fellow\, 2015 and 2017)\, and Dr. Mohamed Bakhit (APN fellow\, 2019). The panel’s thematic focus addressed emerging forms of political participation in Africa and the ways in which the interplay between the “offline” and “online” aspects of social movements are impacting and transforming political landscapes. \nDr. Prempeh’s presentation\, titled “Digital Spaces\, Democracy and Local/Diaspora Voices in Ghana\,” began with a historical overview of youth participation in Ghanaian politics. He then identified the Vigilantism and Related Offences Act of 2019 as a watershed moment that led to youth political participation migrating to online spaces. Dr. Prempeh then highlighted the #FixTheCountry movement as evidence of how online civic activism has “broadened the frontiers” of political spaces and demanded accountability from Ghanaian political elites. He also emphasized the need for online youth movements to learn more about and develop effective strategies for incorporating “offline” modes of activism in order to increase their reach and efficacy. \nFollowing Dr. Prempeh was Dr. Toyin Ajao\, who discussed her paper titled “Citizen’s Collective Post-#ENDSARS Organizing: Lessons and Opportunities for Future Governance in Nigeria” and spoke to the criticality of the online aspect of the #EndSARS protests given the violent repression of protesters by state security forces. Dr. Ajao also discussed how the EndSARs movement’s decentralized nature and use of digital currency (Bitcoin) enabled protestors\, particularly the feminist\, youth-led coalition\, to evade some of the state’s repressive tactics. She argued that digital platforms provided a forum for engaging in post-violence healing\, trauma recovery\, and collective well-being and mental health. Dr. Ajao concluded by underscoring the creativity of youth online organization and the opportunities such organization provides for organizing social activist campaigns. \nDr. Mohamed Bakhit presented his paper titled “A Revolution from the Centre: The Role of Digital Culture in Promoting Resistance During Uprising in Sudan 2018-22\,” on the 2018-19 protests in Sudan\, which led to the overthrow of longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir\, and revealed distinct differences in political participation by different socioeconomic groups. He engaged with the idea of “center versus periphery” in order to explain variations in how wealthier citizens in central Khartoum and “peripheral” groups in poorer\, outer regions of the city engaged in the pro-democratic revolution. Dr. Bakhit pointed to how social media use among wealthier Sudanese and university students in Khartoum during the protests gave them a disproportionately loud voice\, while those on the “periphery” relied more on “resistance committees” and family networks to sustain protests. He noted that the use of social media by wealthier groups risks privileging elite voices and prolonging the unaddressed grievances of marginalized populations. The panel concluded with a vibrant question and answer session that fostered spirited discussions on the prospects for social media as a tool for sustained and successful movement for political change in Africa. \nThe second panel\, titled “Youth\, Urban Mobilities and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Emerging Trajectories for Peace and Development in Africa\,” was chaired by Dr. Cyril Obi and featured Dr. Irene Mngutyo (Next Gen fellow\, 2015)\, Dr. Ibrahim Bangura (APN fellow\, 2016)\, Dr. Simbarashe Gukurume (Next Gen fellow\, 2015 and APN fellow\, 2021)\, and Dr. Robert Ojambo (Next Gen fellow\, 2012 and 2014). The panel focused attention on the challenges facing youth in urban spaces and the dynamism of youth participation in informal economies\, particularly in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. \nDr. Mngutyo’s presentation on “Invisible Urbanites: Displaced Youth Mobility and Imperatives for Development\, Peace\, and Security in Nigeria” began by discussing conceptualizations of “youth” in Nigeria as an “under-utilized resource\,” simultaneously seen as a strain on resources and the future of economic growth. Her paper focused on youth in the area surrounding Makurdi in central Nigeria\, particularly those who have relocated to the city due to displacement by perennial flooding. Dr. Mngutyo emphasized how the camps where displaced youth live are devoid of economic opportunities and hostility from host communities\, causing them to look towards Makurdi city in search of work\, usually low-paying menial labor. Dr. Mngutyo concluded with several policy recommendations touching on education as a first-line approach for displaced youth facing social alienation and economic instability. \nIn his paper titled “Navigating a Complex Space: Youth\, Urban Mobility and Marginality in COVID-19 Affected Sierra Leone\,” Dr. Ibrahim Bangura began by highlighting how Sierra Leone’s prior experience with civil war and the Ebola epidemic had made the government and citizenry wary of Covid-19\, which ultimately culminated in a harsh government response. His paper focused on how state response impacted urban youth largely employed in the transport industry\, particularly based on the use of commercial motorbikes. It explored how young Sierra Leoneans struggled to maintain their livelihoods under repressive governance and arbitrary mobility restrictions. His presentation also traced the pre-existing and growing rifts between the youth and the central government\, a dynamic which has only heightened tensions in economically unstable pandemic and post-pandemic conditions. Dr. Bangura wrapped up his presentation with a set of preliminary conclusions surrounding the willingness of youth to engage with the state and the lack of reciprocity on the part of the state. \nFollowing Dr. Bangura was Dr. Gukurume\, who presented his paper on “Negotiating Livelihoods in Pandemic Times: Experiences of Urban Youth in the Informal Economy in Zimbabwe.” Dr. Gukurume’s presentation focused on Mbare\, one of the suburban areas of Harare\, and how youth operating in informal economies survived during the pandemic. He began with a thorough historical description of Mbare as a town originally created to house male laborers during the colonial period and later a center for political resistance during the 1990s. The presentation also identified the impact of the state’s restrictive policies imposed on the country in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic in exacerbating unemployment and poverty among urban youth. After detailing how the closure of businesses deemed “non-essential” and travel restrictions harshly impacted youth in Mbare’s informal economy\, Dr. Gukurume provided a rigorous theoretical grounding in structuration theory and theories of agency\, navigation\, and everyday peacebuilding. He concluded by observing how the government’s repression of informal economies largely centered around issues of mobility versus immobility\, a dynamic that led to conflicts and contestations between the state and youth\, as well as creative methods of resistance and survival. \nThe final panelist\, Dr. Ojambo\, presented his paper titled “The Fight against COVID-19: Youth and the Emerging Trajectories for Peace and Development in Urban Spaces in Uganda\,” which provides a context for the harsh lockdown instituted by the Ugandan government. The presentation explained that the state’s response to the public health crisis was based on a militarized approach wherein elements of state security forces handled health emergencies and operated health facilities. Echoing the previous presenters\, Dr. Ojambo pointed to the impact of the state’s response to Covid-19 in the form of rapid and widespread unemployment of urban youth. He also highlighted lengthy school closures\, which forced many young women to turn to prostitution and young men into delinquency and crime. Additionally\, his presentation touched on the harsh usage of the pandemic to gag political opposition and forcibly detain critics of the government which\, at some points\, resulted in more deaths than the virus itself. Finally\, Dr. Ojambo spoke about how the extent of the government’s response to the threat of the virus was disproportionate and resulted in a foundational disruption of the social\, economic\, and political lives of Ugandan youth. \nThe panel concluded with an animated question and answer section\, which gave Dr. Obi and the audience the chance to help the presenters refine their arguments\, develop further questions\, and learn more about the diligent research conducted by the panelists. \nSeveral other alumni of the programs also presented at ASA\, including Fisayo Ajala (Next Gen fellow\, 2019 and 2020). He presented his paper titled “The Agency of Political Widowhood: The Nigerian Military Widows Association in Perspective” at the panel African Women’s Agency and Empowerment: Critical Perspectives. He examined the role of the Nigerian Military Widows Association in supporting military widows\, who tend to be abandoned by their families\, and ensuring they get financial compensation to sustain themselves. He highlighted hierarchies within the association and the dilemma widows face in advocating for themselves\, as confronting the military is often seen as confronting their husbands. \nFinally\, on Friday night\, program staff and alumni attended a reception for Carnegie Corporation of New York-funded fellowships. Dr. Henrietta Nyamnjoh\, a member of the APN Advisory Board and a former African Humanities Program (AHP) fellow\, and Dr. Obi took the opportunity to speak to the groundbreaking impact of the SSRC’s fellowships funded by the Carnegie Corporation\, namely the African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Science in Africa fellowships\, and thanked the CCNY and assembled audience for their continued contributions to the overall success of the program in contributing to the research and the professional development of scholars in Africa. \nAs a whole\, the program fellows’ presentations were resounding successes and contributed to a significant share of the African voices present at the conference. The impact of their research was appreciated by the assembled scholarly community\, and new networks and collaborative relationships were formed across the three days of the conference.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/african-studies-association-asa-annual-meeting/
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221119
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SUMMARY:2022 College and University Fund Conference: Social and Behavioral Science at Scale
DESCRIPTION:Social and Behavioral Science at Scale\nSocieties around the globe face pressing challenges at scale: pandemics\, hunger\, climate change\, growing economic inequality\, threats to democratic institutions. In order to discover cost-effective solutions to these and other challenges\, we need to conduct social and behavioral science at a scale proportionate to the threats we confront. \nThis convening brought together leaders of universities\, philanthropic foundations\, and public funders of science to share ideas about practices that can more fully mobilize the social and behavioral science research community to develop and test bold solutions to societies’ most urgent challenges.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/2022-college-and-university-fund-conference-social-and-behavioral-science-at-scale/
LOCATION:New York\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T193000
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SUMMARY:2022 Albert O. Hirschman Prize Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, December 7\, 2022\nWolfensohn Hall\, Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton NJ\n5:30 p.m. Eastern\, in person and livestream \nOn December 7\, 2022\, the Social Science Research Council\, in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Study\, will award the 2022 Albert O. Hirschman Prize to Edward Glaeser\, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Professor Glaeser will give the Hirschman Prize Lecture\, “The Connecting Machine: Cities in the Rich and Poor World\,” during a ceremony in Wolfensohn Hall at IAS. \nTo register to attend the lecture either in person or via the livestream\, please RSVP by November 30\, 2022. \nAwarded every two years\, the Albert O. Hirschman Prize is the highest honor of the Social Science Research Council. It recognizes excellence in research\, theory\, and public communication\, in the tradition of German-born American economist Albert Hirschman’s pioneering role in social science and public policy.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/2022-albert-o-hirschman-prize-ceremony/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221212
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221213
DTSTAMP:20241213T152739Z
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SUMMARY:Policy Dialogue on Peace\, Trade\, and Youth: Investing in US-Africa Cooperation
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, December 12th\, 2022\, the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC’s) African Peacebuilding Network (APN) co-organized a policy dialogue as a side event ahead of the US-African Leaders Summit\, in conjunction with Search for Common Ground\, the African Union Youth Ambassadors for Peace\, the United States Institute of Peace\, and the George Washington Elliott School’s Institute for African Studies in Washington\, D.C. The event\, titled “Peace\, Trade\, and Youth: The Future of US-Africa Cooperation\,” brought together policymakers\, academics\, youth\, and civil society from the United States and Africa to discuss the most pressing issues facing African youth and US-Africa cooperation. The event focused on US-Africa relations from the perspective of the next generation and featured a wide range of discussions\, covering topics such as democracy\, trade\, climate change\, and youth political participation in democracy and elections. \nThe opening session featured Desirée Cormier Smith\, the State Department Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice; Christian Achaleke\, African Union Youth Ambassador for Peace; and Dr. Rhuks Ako\, the coordinator of the African Union (AU) Youth for Peace (Y4P) Africa Program\, discussing the importance of equitable national and transnational partnerships. Youth Ambassador Achaleke’s moderation of the panel centered the proceedings around the challenges posed by inequality in peacebuilding efforts\, as well as the importance of youth representation. Special Representative Cormier Smith discussed the mandate of her position and her responsibility to ensure that US foreign policy protects and empowers marginalized racial and ethnic groups\, combats structural racism\, and fosters equity. Dr. Ako spoke to the origins of the African Union Youth Ambassadors for Peace program\, particularly the initiative’s foundational framework that arose from the direct input of youth\, rather than a top-down mandate. \nIn the panel titled “Democracy & Elections\,” APN and Next Gen Program Director Dr. Cyril Obi moderated a lively discussion with a panel of presenters that included Odeh Friday\, the Accountability Lab Country Director for Nigeria; Cynthia Chigwenya\, African Union Youth Ambassador for Peace\, Southern Africa; Dave Peterson\, Africa Director\, National Endowment for Democracy (NED)\, Washington DC; and Prof. Charles Ukeje of Obafemi Awolowo University\, Ile-Ife\, Nigeria (APN Collaborative Working Group\, 2014-16). They spoke to various aspects of youth engagement and leadership as a vital aspect for advancing and sustaining democracy in the context of US-Africa relations. Dr. Charles Ukeje spoke to the role of the United States as a moral guarantor in Africa and not as a “policeman\,” but rather as an actor with the responsibility to speak out against abuses and corruption. The panelists’ contributions coalesced around the engagement of young people in relation to the interlocking nature of development\, peace\, and democracy in any long-term and sustainable solutions to insecurity and poverty. They also made recommendations for expanding Africa-US relations along the lines of a more equitable partnership\, building the capacities of youth for more effective participation in inclusive democratic governance\, strengthening independent political institutions\, and making leaders listen more to young people in relation to decision-making. \nDr. Mahamadou Bassirou Tangara\, University of Social Sciences and Management\, Bamako\, Mali (APN IRF 2021) spoke during the parallel panel session on “Trade\, Finance\, & New Industries in Africa\,” which also featured other presenters\, including Fenohasina Rakotondrazaka Maret\, Development Economist and Public Policy Expert and Christian Achaleke\, African Union Youth Ambassador\, Central Africa\, in dialogue with Mike Jobbins\, Vice President for Global Affairs and Partnerships at the Search for Common Ground\, Washington DC. In his presentation\, Dr. Tangara emphasized how low levels of investment lead to a lack of job creation for youth\, which negatively affects a wide array of peace\, democracy\, and development goals. He also spoke to issues of inequity not only in transatlantic partnerships\, but within African nations\, as a fundamental roadblock to sustained progress and made recommendations for addressing these issues. \nAfter a brief break\, participants reconvened for another panel session on “Mitigating the Climate Crisis: The Role of Governments & International Actors\,” which featured presentations by Prof. Rawia Tawfik\, Cairo University Egypt (APN IRG 2017); Dr. Lilian Kong’ani\, Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies/University of Nairobi\, Kenya (APN IRF 2022); and Khaloud Ben Mansour\, African Union Youth Ambassador for Peace\, North Africa\, in dialogue with Prof. Gilbert Khadiagala\, Director\, African Center for the Study of the United States (ACSUS)\, University of Witwatersrand\, South Africa. In her presentation\, Prof. Tawfik highlighted the importance of democracy as a medium for open and honest discussions about climate issues and solutions\, as well as the importance of transnational initiatives that recognize the transboundary nature of climate change. Dr. Kong’ani spoke about the vast experience and knowledge of youth in climate change-affected contexts and the importance of bringing youth perspectives into high-level policy discussions. Panelist recommendations included greater data and information sharing between actors\, increased youth input on natural resource management\, and an increase in climate-oriented youth employment and volunteer opportunities. \nConcurrently\, participants convened for a panel titled “Digital Technology: A Medium for Peace\,” which saw the participation of Amanda Feldman\, Global Policy Fellow at Search for Common Ground; Habibou Bako\, Policy & Outreach Associate at Search for Common Ground West Africa; Diana Paul Chando\, African Union Youth for Peace Ambassador\, East Africa; and Sade Dada\, Anglophone West Africa Public Policy for Meta. The assembled panelists largely focused on the challenges that social media presents in terms of hate speech and misinformation\, which resulted in recommendations for holistic approaches to moderating content that brings technology companies\, civil society organizations\, and local communities together and fosters dialogue on the opportunities and issues that growing digital connectivity presents. \nThe event closed with a Youth Plenary Discussion featuring Dr. Simbarashe Gukurume\, Sol Plaatje University\, South Africa (APN IRF 2021); Chido Cleopatra Mpemba\, African Union’s Chairperson’s Youth Envoy; Siaka Togola\, Director of Communications at the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub\, George Washington University\, in dialogue with Philip Oke-Thomas\, Africa Policy Associate\, Search for Common Ground\, Washington DC. In his presentation\, Dr. Gukurume highlighted the importance of treating youth as leaders of the present\, rather than just the future. He pointed to the rise of social movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and #FeesMust Fall in South Africa\, #EndSARS in Nigeria\, and Black Lives Matter in the United States as examples of the growing power of youth-led movements that develop on social networks. Dr. Gukurume drew on his own APN-funded research to speak to the importance of identity and ownership among youth as a driving factor for sustainable civic engagement and economic growth. \nOverall\, the event was well represented by a diverse set of actors and saw wide-ranging agreement on the most pressing issues facing African youth and US-Africa cooperation. At the forefront were recommendations for better integration of youth into power structures and more equitable transatlantic partnerships. Additional recommendations included more protections for personal data against abuse by governments\, an expansion of the financial technology sector in Africa\, the creation of a permanent seat for the AU at the G20\, increased community engagement\, and a discussion of the practical steps needed to increase youth engagement and empowerment. The event was recorded and is available to view by visiting Search for Common Ground’s YouTube page.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/policy-dialogue-on-peace-trade-and-youth-investing-in-us-africa-cooperation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230127T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230127T140000
DTSTAMP:20240112T170457Z
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SUMMARY:Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success
DESCRIPTION:About the Lecture\nImmigrants to the US today move up the economic ladder and engage in cultural assimilation at the same pace as immigrants during the Ellis Island generation. What’s more\, the children of immigrants experience rapid social mobility\, even if their parents hailed from poor countries. So\, why are prospects for immigration reform so dim? This stalemate is more surprising in light of new evidence from the Congressional Record showing that political attitudes toward immigration have never been more positive in US history\, albeit more divided by political party. Textual analysis reveals that the partisan divide on immigration is not driven by economic considerations. Rather\, the most polarized topics are crime on one side\, and positive views of refugees on the other. The lecture will conclude with new insights on immigration and crime\, and on refugees\, throughout US history. \n\nEvent Recording\n \nAbout Leah Boustan\nLeah Boustan is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University\, where she also serves as the Director of the Industrial Relations Section. Her research lies at the intersection between economic history and labor economics. Her first book\, Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (Princeton University Press\, 2016) examines the effect of the Great Black Migration from the rural south during and after World War II. Her recent work\, including her new book Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success (PublicAffairs 2022)\, is on the mass migration from Europe to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Professor Boustan is co-director of the Development of the American Economy Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She also serves as co-editor at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Professor Boustan was named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2012 and won the IZA Young Labor Economists Award in 2019.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/streets-of-gold-americas-untold-story-of-immigrant-success-centennial-lecture-series/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230127T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230127T140000
DTSTAMP:20230113T161538Z
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SUMMARY:Centennial Lecture - "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success"
DESCRIPTION:A lecture by Leah Boustan\, Princeton University \nImmigrants to the US today move up the economic ladder and engage in cultural assimilation at the same pace as immigrants during the Ellis Island generation. What’s more\, the children of immigrants experience rapid social mobility\, even if their parents hailed from poor countries. So\, why are prospects for immigration reform so dim? This stalemate is more surprising in light of new evidence from the Congressional Record showing that political attitudes toward immigration have never been more positive in US history\, albeit more divided by political party. Textual analysis reveals that the partisan divide on immigration is not driven by economic considerations. Rather\, the most polarized topics are crime on one side\, and positive views of refugees on the other. The lecture will conclude with new insights on immigration and crime\, and on refugees\, throughout US history. \nLeah Boustan is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University\, where she also serves as the Director of the Industrial Relations Section. Her research lies at the intersection between economic history and labor economics. Her first book\, Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (Princeton University Press\, 2016) examines the effect of the Great Black Migration from the rural south during and after World War II. Her recent work\, including her new book Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success (PublicAffairs 2022)\, is on the mass migration from Europe to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Professor Boustan is co-director of the Development of the American Economy Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She also serves as co-editor at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Professor Boustan was named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2012 and won the IZA Young Labor Economists Award in 2019.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/centennial-lecture-streets-of-gold-americas-untold-story-of-immigrant-success/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T183000
DTSTAMP:20230818T200325Z
CREATED:20230118T203555Z
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SUMMARY:Abe Global 2023 | Hedging Against Risk – Japan in an Uncertain World: Geo-Dynamics of Northeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:During the last decades of the twentieth century\, there were major changes in the world economic organization as the end of the Cold War\, the birth of the WTO\, and the off-shoring of manufacturing to lower-wage developing countries created a highly integrated global economy dependent on complicated supply chains linking production and consumption. Similarly\, sophisticated systems of data collection have distributed previously private or nationally-held data across state borders and spawned an industry around its global trafficking\, resulting in security risks to individuals\, businesses\, and nations. A series of crises over the last several years—including the Covid pandemic\, rising tensions between China and the US\, natural disasters brought on by global warming\, the war in Ukraine\, and the sanctions regime—have shaken the globalized trading system and produced shortages in goods\, energy\, raw materials\, food supplies\, and labor. Access to these resources has become a strategic bargaining chip in international relations\, as nations seek to secure supplies of food\, raw materials\, and energy in the global marketplace\, while also ensuring that sensitive data is securely protected. \nPanelists will discuss questions about how nations hedge risks in a world in which the global flow of goods\, data\, and services is regularly interrupted by natural hazards\, man-made conflict\, and political relationships within the international order. How do these global and external issues impact domestic politics\, and how do domestic issues impact the international world? And what is at stake? \nAbe Global 2023 is held in partnership with the East-West Center in Washington\, DC. \nThe Abe Fellows Global Forum (Abe Global) brings Abe Fellow research and expertise on pressing issues of global concern to broader audiences. Abe Global hosts events each year in partnership with academic and civic organizations. The forum is a partnership between the Social Science Research Council and the Japan Foundation.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/abe-global-2023-hedging-against-risk-trade-supply-chains-technology-and-security/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230220T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230220T180000
DTSTAMP:20230523T152117Z
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SUMMARY:CPPF Meeting on Guatemala
DESCRIPTION:On 20 February 2023\, CPPF convened the 13th meeting in a series of meetings on the situation rule of law\, corruption\, and impunity in Guatemala.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/cppf-meeting-on-guatemala/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230222
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230223
DTSTAMP:20230306T153503Z
CREATED:20230227T162414Z
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SUMMARY:Cultural Heritage\, Violent Conflict\, and Atrocity Crimes Workshop
DESCRIPTION:On 22 February 2023\, the Cultural Heritage\, Violent Conflict\, and Atrocity Crimes workshop was held at the Penn Club. The workshop brought together scholars and United Nations (UN) representatives to develop a shared understanding of the key debates in the academic literature about the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage in violent conflicts\, situations at risk of atrocity crimes\, and their aftermaths. The participants also discussed the evidence of and intersection between heritage destruction and the act of atrocity crimes; and explored how the UN system can better prepare and respond. \n 
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/cultural-heritage-violent-conflict-and-atrocity-crimes-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230224T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230224T140000
DTSTAMP:20240111T192432Z
CREATED:20230215T162539Z
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SUMMARY:Health Care as Social Insurance: The Role of Medicaid in Improving US Health
DESCRIPTION:About the Lecture\nExpanded access to healthcare in the United States through the nation’s public health insurance program\, Medicaid\, has led to meaningful–and measurable–improvements in people’s health. Insurance expansions that have targeted pregnant women\, children\, and adults have all had important short- and longer-term effects on health\, and this talk will discuss some of those outcomes and the ways that researchers are exploring and measuring Medicaid’s impact. \n\nEvent Recording\n \nAbout Laura Wherry\nLaura Wherry’s primary area of research focuses on the changing role of the Medicaid program and its impact on access to health care and health. Recent work examines the early effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions\, as well as the longer-term effects of several large expansions in Medicaid targeting low-income pregnant women and children in the 1980s and 1990s. “Multi-generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health” with Chloe East\, Sarah Miller\, and Marianne Page\, was recently published in the American Economic Review. Prior to joining NYU\, Wherry was an assistant professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Michigan.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/health-care-as-social-insurance-the-role-of-medicaid-in-improving-us-health/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230303
DTSTAMP:20230302T165103Z
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SUMMARY:CPPF Meeting on Sudan and the region
DESCRIPTION:On 1-2 March CPPF convened a meeting on Sudan and the region at the request of the UN Eastern Africa Division of DPPA\, the meeting aimed to reflect on national developments and regional trends and on the role of the UN.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/cppf-meeting-on-sudan-and-the-region/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T140000
DTSTAMP:20240112T170509Z
CREATED:20230301T165314Z
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SUMMARY:Discrimination in Hiring: Why Do Firms Vary So Much in Whom They Hire?
DESCRIPTION:About the Lecture\nUS employers are segregated by race\, which likely contributes to racial inequalities in earnings. While the composition of an employer’s workforce is shaped by powerful social and economic forces\, it is not inevitable. This talk reviews recent evidence from around the world on how policy can influence the demographic composition of an employer’s workforce. \n\nEvent Recording\n \nAbout Conrad Miller\nConrad Miller is an Associate Professor at the University of California\, Berkeley\, in the Haas School of Business\, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a labor economist who studies firm sorting\, discrimination\, and criminal justice. His research explores issues such as the role of firms in labor market inequality between social groups\, the consequences of discrimination\, and the effects of policy responses to discrimination.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/discrimination-in-hiring-why-do-firms-vary-so-much-in-whom-they-hire/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T140000
DTSTAMP:20240111T193814Z
CREATED:20230411T144527Z
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SUMMARY:What are the Long-Run and Inter-Generational Impacts of Child Health Investments in East Africa?
DESCRIPTION:About the Lecture\nIt has been challenging to establish how health investments in childhood affect individuals’ life trajectories\, especially in low- and middle-income regions of the world\, due to pervasive data limitations. This talk discusses a new project that leverages recent methodological innovations in development economics and a unique dataset tracking thousands of Kenyans over two decades (the Kenya Life Panel Survey). The evidence indicates that investments in child health radiate out over time and across generations in multiple\, and perhaps surprising\, ways. \n\nEvent Recording\n \nAbout Edward Miguel\nEdward Miguel is the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics and Faculty Director of the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where he has taught since 2000. \nHis main research focus is African economic development\, including work on the economic causes and consequences of violence; the impact of ethnic divisions on local collective action; interactions between health\, education\, environment\, and productivity for the poor; and methods for transparency in social science research.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/what-are-the-long-run-and-inter-generational-impacts-of-child-health-investments-in-east-africa/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230424
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230426
DTSTAMP:20230523T152254Z
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SUMMARY:United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs Retreat
DESCRIPTION:On 24-25 April 2023\, CPPF hosted and facilitated the retreat of the Conventional Arms Branch (CAB) of the UN Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA).
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/united-nations-office-for-disarmament-affairs-retreat/
LOCATION:Social Science Research Council\, 300 Cadman Plaza West\, 15 Fl\, New York\, NY\, 11201\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T150000
DTSTAMP:20230519T161453Z
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SUMMARY:CPPF Meeting on Energy Transition Risks and Opportunities in the MENA Region
DESCRIPTION:On 18 May 2023 CPPF convened a meeting on energy transition risks and opportunities in the MENA region at the request of the UN Northern Africa Division of DPPA. The meeting aimed to inform the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on climate\, peace\, and security in the MENA region and considered the implications of the accelerating energy transitions on the MENA region.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/cppf-meeting-on-energy-transition-risks-and-opportunities-in-the-mena-region/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230519T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230519T170000
DTSTAMP:20230526T143232Z
CREATED:20230519T173846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230526T143232Z
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SUMMARY:Is Behavior The Solution Agenda
DESCRIPTION:About\nRecent investments in clean energy R&D have led to remarkable innovations in clean energy technology. These innovations hold the promise of slowing and perhaps even reversing decades of anthropogenic climate change. \nBut in order to fully realize the promise of clean energy innovation\, we also need policy innovation: social and behavioral science R&D aimed at finding interventions\, programs\, and policies that effectively mobilize decision makers to act in climate-protective ways. \nJoin us for an important conversation with leading social and behavioral scientists and climate thought leaders to discuss: \n\nwhat we know about potentially scalable interventions to increase climate-protective behaviors;\nthe potential return on investment from expanding this knowledge base;\nhow we might better connect social and behavioral scientists with climate policy makers.\n\nThe half-day event will take place Friday\, June 9\, 2023 from 9am to 2pm ET at The Rockefeller Foundation’s Global Headquarters\, 420 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/is-behavior-the-solution-agenda/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230523T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230523T110000
DTSTAMP:20230523T152022Z
CREATED:20230323T151659Z
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SUMMARY:CPPF Meeting on Guatemala
DESCRIPTION:On 21 March 2023\, CPPF convened the 14th meeting in a series of meetings on the situation rule of law\, corruption\, and impunity in Guatemala.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/cppf-meeting-on-guatemala-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230523T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230523T150000
DTSTAMP:20240112T170118Z
CREATED:20230524T142335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T170118Z
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SUMMARY:Encouraging Technology Adoption in Agrarian Societies
DESCRIPTION:About the Lecture\nSolutions to many of today’s key development challenges hinge not on creating new technologies and solutions\, but in understanding why the poor do not adopt seemingly beneficial technologies that already exist. Throughout the developing world\, there are countless examples of technologies that appear to be welfare enhancing but are adopted by the poor at very low rates. Examples span health\, finance\, and agriculture sectors\, and include cleaner cook-stoves\, anti-malarial bednets\, toilets\, fertilizer\, weather insurance\, and improved seed varieties. To make progress on these problems\, we need to understand the sources of behavioral or structural barriers to new technology adoption\, in order to devise policies and marketing strategies to address those barriers. This talk will highlight economic analysis and randomized-controlled-trial based field experimental methods applied in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa to make progress on these questions. \n\nEvent Recording\n \nAbout Mushfiq Mobarak\nMushfiq Mobarak is the Jerome Kasoff ’54 Professor of Management and Economics at Yale University with concurrent appointments in the School of Management and in the Department of Economics. Mobarak is the founder and faculty director of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE).
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/encouraging-technology-adoption-in-agrarian-societies/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230609
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230614
DTSTAMP:20230627T174433Z
CREATED:20230627T174433Z
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SUMMARY:CPPF Workshop on Political Economy Analysis in Central Africa
DESCRIPTION:On 9\,12\, and 13 June 2023 CPPF hosted a series of three half-day virtual workshops on PEA in Central Africa. The sessions took stock of political analysis-related work within both the United Nations and World Bank and discussed methodologies. The meeting aimed to enrich both organizations’ understanding of the political economy trends related to oil exporting states and the Congo Basin rainforest in Central Africa.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/cppf-workshop-on-political-economy-analysis-in-central-africa/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230612
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230614
DTSTAMP:20241213T152725Z
CREATED:20230720T182035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241213T152725Z
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SUMMARY:APN and Next Gen African University Seminar Series\, University Nairobi\, June 12–13\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:The inaugural African University Seminar Series in Kenya (AUSS-Kenya) was held at the University of Nairobi\, Kenya from June 12-13\, 2023. The Kenya-based current and former fellows of the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC’s) African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) organized the event fellows\, under the guidance of the co-chairs of the APN-Next Gen Advisory Board\, Dr. Steve Akoth (former Next Gen fellow) and Prof. Rita Abrahamsen. The AUSS-Kenya Local Organizing Committee (LOC) is led by the co-chairs\, Jacinta Maweu (former APN fellow) and Rahma Hassan (former Next Gen fellow)\, and the members include other former APN fellows: Alex Kamwaria\, Lilian Kong’ani\, John Mwangi Githigaro (also a former Next Gen fellow)\, Joyce Omwoha\, Susan Kung’u (also a Next Gen fellow)\, and Fredrick Ogenga. The event brought together current and former APN-Next Gen fellows during a 2-day seminar with the theme: “Security\, Peacebuilding and Development in Africa: Reflections from Kenya.” It marked a significant first step towards consolidating the APN-Next Gen fellow/alumni network in Kenya into a distinct African scholarly community that promotes Afrocentric values of research excellence\, knowledge production\, and policy engagement. \nThe Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Nairobi hosted the seminar. Dr. Jennifer Muchiri\, the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Nairobi\, kicked off the event by giving welcome remarks. Dr. Steve Akoth of the APN and Next Gen Advisory Board then gave his opening remarks\, highlighting the decade-long impact of the APN-Next Gen program on the professional development of Africa-based scholars. Dr. Mustafa Ali\, co-founder and chairman of the HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies\, followed with a keynote address on “Shared Security and the Age of Polycrisis\,” in which he noted the importance of prioritizing “dialogue-centered conflict prevention and resolution mechanisms” and emphasizing the need for collective or “shared security.” He also encouraged participants to “work towards a more secure\, peaceful\, and prosperous Africa\, driven by evidence\, research\, and analytical inquiry.” \nThe keynote was followed by the first panel on: “Indigenous knowledge and local peacebuilding cultures” moderated by John Mwangi Githigaro. The panel consisted of presentations by Flora Mutere (former Next Gen fellow)\, David Muthegethi (former Next Gen fellow)\, Frederick Ogenga (former APN fellow)\, and Sela Musundi (former APN fellow). \nThe second panel on: “Climate change\, natural resource conflicts\, and Security in Africa” was moderated by Lilian Kong’ani (former APN fellow). It consisted of presentations by Rahma Hassan (former Next Gen fellow)\, Mahat Issack Hassan (former Next Gen fellow)\, and Graham Oluteyo (former Next Gen fellow). \nThe second day of the seminar opened with a keynote by Prof. Musambayi Katumanga\, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Nairobi titled: “Geographing Development and Realities of Security.” \nThe first panel of the day was “Media\, Memories and Peacebuilding\,” moderated by Jacinta Mwende (former APN fellow). The panel consisted of presentations by Allen Wefwafwa (former Next Gen fellow)\, Susan Kung’u (former Next Gen fellow)\, and Muema Wambua (former Next Gen fellow). \nThe second panel on “Gender\, Conflict\, and Peacebuilding” was moderated by Alex Kamwaria (former APN fellow). It consisted of presentations by Joyce Omwoha\, Lilian Kong’ani\, and Roseanne Njiru (all former APN fellows)\, while the third and last panel on “Interstate Relations\, Geopolitics\, and Histories of Conflict\,” was moderated by Susan Kung’u. The panel consisted of presentations by Benson Kanyani (former Next Gen fellow)\, Alex Kamwaria (former APN fellow)\, and Kizito Sabala (former APN fellow). \nThe AUSS-Kenya seminar wrapped up with great success. APN-Next Gen current and former fellows were able to present their papers and receive feedback from each other during the interactive and engaging Q&A sessions. In addition to being an opportunity to present and discuss their work\, AUSS-Kenya was also a great networking opportunity for current and former fellows from different Kenyan universities and institutions located across the country. \nThe AUSS-Kenya participants unanimously agreed that this self-organized seminar was a great learning experience and an empowering initiative within the APN-Next Gen community and expressed the hope to make it a recurring annual seminar with involvement from more APN-Next Gen current and former fellows.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/apn-and-next-gen-african-university-seminar-series-university-nairobi-june-12-13-2023/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Convening: Policy-Relevant Social and Behavioral Science
DESCRIPTION:In this virtual convening of the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences\, Arthur Lupia\, executive director of the Bold Challenges Initiative at the University of Michigan\, and Jeremy Weinstein\, faculty director of Stanford Impact Labs\, talked about their work to support faculty and graduate students pursuing ambitious applied and socially relevant research\, in partnership with public\, private\, and nonprofit organizations.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/virtual-convening-policy-relevant-social-and-behavioral-science/
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SUMMARY:Supporting Policy-Relevant Social and Behavioral Science
DESCRIPTION:Public and private funding organizations\, state legislatures\, and donors increasingly expect universities to produce socially impactful and policy-relevant research. However\, publication and promotion incentives may undermine efforts to mobilize the social and behavioral science research community to pursue policy-relevant research. This series of virtual convenings is an opportunity for member institutions of the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences (CUF) to share what works–and what doesn’t–to mobilize social and behavioral science that is both policy-relevant and scientifically rigorous. \nThese virtual convenings are intended to be an opportunity for cross-institutional learning and networking across CUF member institutions\, and we hope they will be highly interactive and conversational. Registration is only open to individuals associated with one of the current member institutions. If you’d like to be notified of upcoming events\, please join our mailing list.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/supporting-policy-relevant-social-and-behavioral-science/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T130000
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SUMMARY:Improving Global Education: Evidence\, Cost-Effectiveness\, and Political Economy
DESCRIPTION:About the Lecture\nSolutions to many of today’s key development challenges hinge not on creating new technologies and solutions\, but in understanding why the poor do not adopt seemingly beneficial technologies that already exist. Throughout the developing world\, there are countless examples of technologies that appear to be welfare enhancing but are adopted by the poor at very low rates. Examples span health\, finance\, and agriculture sectors\, and include cleaner cook-stoves\, anti-malarial bednets\, toilets\, fertilizer\, weather insurance\, and improved seed varieties. To make progress on these problems\, we need to understand the sources of behavioral or structural barriers to new technology adoption\, in order to devise policies and marketing strategies to address those barriers. This talk will highlight economic analysis and randomized-controlled-trial based field experimental methods applied in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa to make progress on these questions. \n\nEvent Recording\n \nAbout Karthik Muralidharan\nKarthik Muralidharan is the Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics at the University of California\, San Diego (UCSD) and holds positions at MIT\, the Bureau of Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD)\, the National Bureau of Economic Research\, and the World Bank. His research spans development\, public\, and labor economics with a focus on improving the effectiveness of public spending in the social sector (education\, health\, and social protection programs).
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/improving-global-education-evidence-cost-effectiveness-and-political-economy/
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SUMMARY:9th Annual CPPF-DPPA RC MENA Forum
DESCRIPTION:CPPF hosted its 9th annual Forum for UN Resident Coordinators in the Middle East and North Africa Region in Geneva\, Switzerland on 19-21 June 2023. The Forum covered regional political trends and cross-cutting topics such as human rights; drugs\, crime and corruption; climate change and water politics; media and new technologies; migration; and risks and opportunities for the UN in the MENA region.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/9th-annual-cppf-dppa-rc-mena-forum/
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