From: International Organization/UN Studies Specialization
Date: October 8, 2019
Subject: IO/UNS Weekly Newsletter [10/08]
SIPA | International Organization & UN Studies
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Dear IO/UNS Specializers, |
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EVENTS AT SIPA AND BEYOND
Oct 9, 12:30-2 pm UN Career Series with Daniel Naujoks, IO/UNS Specialization Director IAB 802 Ever wondered how to get a job at the UN? Wondering how the UN recruitment process works and how best to prepare for the UN interview? How can should you use your time at SIPA to build your resume, expertise, and network to land one of the coveted jobs at the UN? Come learn the answers to these and many more questions at our first event as part of the UN Career Series. Professor Daniel Naujoks, Interim Director of IO/UNS Specialization at SIPA, will share his experience of working with various UN entities, such as UNDP, ILO, UNICEF, World Bank, OECD, IOM, ESCWA, and UN-DESA. Lunch will be provided. RSVP: http://cglink.me/r600767 Oct 10, 12:10-1:10 pm United Nations Fact-Finding and Commissions of Inquiry: Where We Are Today Columbia Law School, JG 107 The UN increasingly mandates fact-finding commissions to respond to serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law. Why does the UN use such commissions? What is the role of fact-finding in advancing rights? What are the current challenges to UN inquiries? Join us for a discussion with Justice Kirby as he shares lessons learned from his work as Chairman of the UN Commission of Inquiry on DPRK (North Korea). In that role, Justice Kirby published an unprecedented report documenting crimes against humanity in North Korea. More info: https://www.law. Oct 15, 6:00-8:00 pm Ending Poverty through Multilateral Cooperation: Global actions and local impacts IAB 1501 17 October marks the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. From the first goal of the MDG’s call to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger to SDG 1’s objective to end poverty in all its forms everywhere, global development cooperation has a strong focus on poverty. This high-level panel discusses efforts to end poverty in the context of multilateral arrangements and actions at the global, regional, and local level. RSVP: http://cglink.me/r607362 Oct 18, 9:30 am-1:30 pm Using Behavioral Insights and Sports: Preventing Violent Extremism United Nations Institute for Training and Research Presentation on how core concepts of behavioral insights have been used recently, with a focus on social contexts and complex issues such as inclusion, diversity, cohesion and PVE. This session will discuss how we can leverage Behavioral insights in Sports and Development to tackle complex social challenges such as Inclusion, Diversity, Cohesion and even Violent Extremism. Among other things, the experience of Generation Amazing will be provided in this regard as well as other applications of behavioral insights in sports, inclusion and PVE. Event details: https://www.unitar.org/event/full-catalog/using-behavioral-insights-and-sports-preventing-violent-extremism RESEARCH ASSISTANT
IO/UNS director a.i. Professor Daniel Naujoks is looking for a research assistant for Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 to support his analysis of the Global Development Policy Database he created. The research assistant will support Professor Naujoks to populate the database with a wider array of policy documents; use the qualitative research software NVivo to apply automatic and manual codes; create a dataset that is supplemented by statistical data available from other sources and support the analysis. If interested, see more information here and apply by Oct 17.
INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Sustainable Development and Poverty in Small Island Developing States Intern, UNDP UNDP is offering two part-time internships to work with UNDP SIDS Advisor to provide support towards the preparation of research and analytics, knowledge management, and organization of events regarding Smart Islands, Climate Action and Blue Economy issues to create/update a profile for each SIDS and UNDP’s offer for small islands developing states, reporting of the AOSIS project, and support compilation of communication materials, project stories, and dissemination. Deadline: Oct 17 https://www.danielnaujoks.com/undp-intern-sids.html Governance and Planning Intern, UN Women The intern will be responsible for reviewing and providing quality assurance of National Committees Biennial Partner Plans; monitoring overall project implementation of National Committees Biennial Partner Plans with respect to progress and updates, delivery, project objectives, outputs and indicators; and providing secretarial and coordination support of office-wide meetings and external meetings. Deadline: Oct 11 https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=87792 Commission on the Status of Women Operations Intern, UN Women Civil Society Division Assist with the strategic outreach to civil society partners (women’s rights organizations, youth-led organizations, men and boys’ groups, grassroots organizations, trade unions, refugee and migrant groups, disability organizations, faith-based actors, etc.), by researching and mapping of CSO partnerships and initiatives around CSW; assist with developing and designing communications and outreach products for CSW (flyers, brochures, tutorials etc.); support NGO online registration for CSW, including by monitoring and responding to email requests as well as following up on specific cases; assist with the scheduling of CSW side events on UN premises. https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=87510 Deadline: Oct 18 Latin America Research Intern, International Crisis Group The intern will assist the Economics of Conflict and Latin America programs, conducting a variety of research activities, including: assisting in building datasets for quantitative analysis; coding the characteristics and location of non-state armed actors based on media reports; collecting social media information and classifying the tweets of political figures; writing literature reviews and preparing briefs on specific political or criminal actors; conducting basic data analysis tasks. https://jobs.crisisgroup.org/o/volunteer-intern-latin-america-research Deadline: Open until filled Immigration Intern, International Rescue Committee The intern will assist immigration staff in helping refugees, asylees, and other immigrants apply for adjustment of status (green cards), United States citizenship, family petitions and other immigration benefits; conduct initial eligibility assessments of potential applicants; help conduct outreach to refugees and other immigrants in need of assistance with immigration-related matters; assist with immigration and citizenship informational forums. https://rescue.csod.com/ats/careersite/JobDetails.aspx?site=1&id=4125 Deadline: Open until filled Finance and Administration Intern, Synergos Synergos seeks an intern in its New York City office to work the finance and administration team as they work with the entire staff to operationalize a strategic plan and budget working with Senior Management, program directors and area unit leaders in NY, Ethiopia, Namibia and Middle East. https://www.synergos.org/jobs-internships/finance-intern Deadline: Open until filled
OTHER NEWS
and feel free to reach out to us:
Daniel Naujoks, Interim Director, daniel.naujoks@columbia.edu
Nigina Khaitova, Program Assistant, nk2802@columbia.edu Sasha M. Lagombra, Program Assistant, sl2922@columbia.edu |
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