From: Date: May 15, 2020 Subject: HRHP End of Semester Newsletter (yay!)
HRHP End of Semester Newsletter
Dear HRHPers,
Congratulations for completing this semester! You are all certified rockstars, unbelieveable, amazing, accomplished, beautiful human beings. Everyone deserves a nice long weekend so we hope no one reads this until Monday.
We'll be sending out current and graduating student surveys in the next week. PLEASE fill them out! We need your input!
Join us for the HRHP Grad Party (details below)!
We're cosponsoring a Professional Development webinar on business and human rights on May 28 - be there! Details below!
A huge shoutout to this year's HRHP PA team - starting what seemed like years ago with Alejandro Bonil Vaca and Eva McAvoy, and ending with Jazzy Ramsey and Kayth Kang! We are so sad to let you all leave, but the concentration is in much better shape than you found it! :)
We're excited to introduce Morgan Nevins and Julia Henriques-Souza as the Fall 2020 PAs for HRHP! See below for more info.
Morgan Nevins (MIA '21) is a Master of International Affairs and Master of Science in Social Work Dual Degree Candidate at Columbia SIPA and the School of Social Work studying humanitarian policy, conflict resolution and clinical direct practice. Prior to graduate school, Morgan worked for 4 years in project management of HIV prevention, care and treatment services in Mozambique. She also has 3 years of U.S. based experience as an advocate for survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence. Morgan served with the Peace Corps in Mozambique (2011-2013) as a community health promoter. Morgan earned her Bachelor of Arts in 2010 at Colgate University, majoring in history and peace and conflict studies.
Julia Henriques-Souza (MIA '21) is a second year J-termer and HRHP concentrator with a specialization in Gender and Public Policy.
Before coming to SIPA, Julia attended the University of Brasília, where she got a bachelor’s degree in International Relations. While there, she was involved in gender studies projects and political activism networks, which were crucial to consolidate her passion for gender issues. While in Brasília, she also worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, where she was in touch with gender, labor and health topics, and at the Public Defender’s Federal Office of Brazil, where she worked with asylum claims and access to justice. She's also an epic Lady Gaga fan.
Please join the concentration in congratulating all of the SIPA May 2020 HRHP Graduates!
We want to celebrate you and all of your accomplishments during your time at SIPA. We will have a few words at the beginning by Professor Barkan and Professor Friedman, followed by a social hour. This event is open to graduating students, continuing students, and recent alums!
Grab a beverage or snack of your choice and help us honor all of the amazing work you've done!
Björn Fasterling, Professor of Law and LegalEDHEC Researcher at EDHEC Business School, will be presenting a webinar entitled [Rethinking how to do business - Why should companies hire people with human rights competencies?] on Thursday, 28 May at 5.00 pm (CET) (11 am EST).
The event will be co-hosted with Joanne Bauer, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and supported by the Teaching Forum on Business and Human Rights.
This webinar, will be part of a LegalEDHEC webinar series dedicated to law transformations at digital age.
ABOUT EDHEC
Operating from campuses in Lille, Nice, Paris, London and Singapore, EDHEC is one of the top 15 European business schools. Fully international and directly connected to the business world, EDHEC is a school for business, rather than a business school, where excellence in teaching and research focuses on innovation to stimulate entrepreneurship and creativity. EDHEC functions as a genuine laboratory of ideas and produces innovative solutions valued by businesses. The School’s teaching philosophy, inspired by its award-winning research activities, focuses on “learning by doing”.
Despite good faith attempts by civil society, governments and the international community, living in a sustainably peaceful community continues to be an elusive dream in too much of our world. Among the challenges to sustaining peace is the fact that few scholars have studied enduringly peaceful societies, or have examined only narrow aspects of them, leaving our understanding of the necessary conditions, processes and policies fragmented and deficient.
This multidisciplinary initiative aims to provide a holistic, evidence-based understanding of how peace can be sustained in societies. The Sustaining Peace Project employs complexity science as an integrative platform for synthesizing knowledge across disciplines, sectors and communities.
We are currently seeking a research intern sufficiently familiar with peace research to work with us to review the literature we have gathered to answer the following questions:
Have we correctly identified the most important variables relevant to peacefulness and supported by empirical research at each of the levels?
Are we missing any critical (empirically-supported) variables that should be included?
Are the relations (links and loops) that we have currently specified on the map correct and empirically supported?
Are there other empirical studies that should be included in our summaries and mapping?
We are seeking a highly intelligent, organized and interested individual with research experience to review each of the levels of research, address the above questions, and briefly summarize the findings for each factor. Any currently enrolled Columbia University or Teachers College Masters or PhD student is eligible to apply.
We hope that these reviews and summaries will result in 3 distinct chapters for a book we will publish on the research - one chapter for each level - which could include the RA as co-author.
We also offer a stipend for the work.
Interested parties should send their resume and a cover letter to Allegra Chen-Carrel at ac3922@columbia.edu by June 1st, 2020 with the subject line: CLD research assistant.
Contact us!
Professor Elazar Bakan, Director of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration, Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights
