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 …
WORKSHOP DIRECTORS: Xiao LiuAssistant Professor, East Asian Studies, McGill Universityauroliu@gmail.com Shuang ShenAssociate Professor, Comparative Literature Department & Asian Studies Department, Pennsylvania State Universitysxs1075@psu.edu CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS: It is said that we are now living in a “network society,” in which digital social media such as Twitter and Wechat, or information and communication technologies from …
On 13-14 January, CPPF convened an expert brainstorming on the impact of sanctions and human rights. The brainstorming analyzed the debate surrounding the nexus of sanctions and human rights to better inform the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights understanding and guidance in the field and at its headquarters.
On 27 January, CPPF organized an expert brainstorming on Chad and the Region. The meeting assessed recent developments in the region and explored opportunities for enhancing cross-border coordination of UN conflict prevention activities in Chad’s border areas.
On January 30, 2020, the SSRC convened the second research workshop of its Academic Network on Peace, Security, and the United Nations in New York, an initiative of the Council's Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF) and its Understanding Violent Conflict (UVC) Program. This workshop, on “Disinformation, Democratic Processes, and Conflict Prevention,” examined the frameworks, findings, and debates in …
