African Peacebuilding Network Grantee Research Methods Training Workshop
Peduase Valley Resort Peduase, AburiWeek 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 Ideational Approach to Populism: Consequences and Mitigation
"The Ideational Approach to Populism: Consequences and Mitigation" will be a three day conference held at the IE School for Global and Public Affairs in Segovia, Spain June 24-26, 2019. The conference is organized by Team Populism, a research group based at Brigham Young University. With populist forces gaining power in several countries for the first time in years, policymakers and citizens are more concerned than ever with populism’s consequences and how we should respond. In this conference, Team Populism will explore the consequences of populism and how they are mitigated. Participants will focus on different levels of analysis, including countries …
African Peacebuilding Network Grantee Research Methods Training Workshop
The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) program held a week-long joint workshop in Peduase, Aburi, Ghana for the 2019 cohort of APN Individual Research Grant (IRG) recipients and the 2019 cohort of Next Gen fellows. The workshop was organized in collaboration with the University of Ghana, Legon from June 24—28, 2019. 15 APN Individual Research Grant participants benefited from lectures, working group sessions, and one-on-one dialogues with experienced facilitators, including senior scholars, and current and former APN Advisory Board members. The grantees met from June 24th to June 26th, 2019. The workshop …
China-Africa Peace Fellowship Preparatory Workshop
China-Africa Peace Fellowship Preparatory Workshop
On June 28, 2019, Understanding Violent Conflict Director Tatiana Carayannis and Program Associate Nisreen Yonis participated in the first of three workshops for the 2018-2020 cohort of China-Africa Peace Fellows. Guided by program staff and hosted by Professor Wang Yi Zhou, the deputy dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University, the Fellows reflected on findings, challenges, and the current status of their fieldwork research and writing.