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Week of Events
Alternatives to Incarceration in Latin America and the Caribbean
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. The latest investigation …
The SSRC Supports the National Vietnam Encyclopedia Project to Gain Experience from US Encyclopedia Projects
The Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in Southeast Asia, one of four Atlantic Fellows programs that have partnered with the SSRC for strategic learning and assessment and developmental support, recently graduated 18 fellows from 9 ASEAN countries and China at the fellowship’s second Annual Forum in Hua Hin, Thailand. Throughout the six module induction year program, the fellows have developed their leadership capabilities and tackled issues related to health equity and its social determinants both within and beyond national borders. After graduation, they returned to their home countries to begin working on collaborative projects geared toward addressing health inequities at …
Distribution Conference
On February 9th, 2018, the Anxieties of Democracy program’s working group on distribution convened at Yale University. The conference brought our working group members together to explore how changes in the structure of the global economy affect the viability of long settled features of distribution. The conference was organized by the working group’s co-chairs: Frances Rosenbluth, Damon Wells Professor of Political Science at Yale University, and Margaret Weir, Wilson Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Brown University. The conference was generously supported by Yale’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, and Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Conference participants …