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Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies Newsletter | Vol. 004| October, 2006 |
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Welcome to the Saltzman
Institute of War and Peace's electronic newsletter. We look
forward to keeping you informed of developments and issues from the
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SWAMOS Program SIWPS Director Richard Betts directed the 10th Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS) at Columbia University from July 9th-28th. For more information on SWAMOS click here. |
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New Publication from SIWPS Professor Professor Lincoln Mitchell's article "Democracy in Georgia Since the Rose Revolution" was published in the fall, 2006 volume of Orbis.
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New Publications from SIWPS Professor Professor Jack Snyder's article "The Crusade of Illusions" appeared in Foreign Affairs, July-August 2006. For the full text of the article click here.
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Creative Responses to Conflict On September 11th the Saltzman Institute provided support to the Columbia Institute for Conflict Resolution's event "From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: Creative Responses to Conflict". The event brought together victims of violence from around the world to discuss the creative and non-violent strategies they have developed to help break the cycle of violence.
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Argentine First Lady Addresses SIWPS Seminar On September 18th, Mrs. Cristina Kirchner, Argentine First Lady and Senate representative from Buenos Aires Province, was a guest lecturer at a joint session of Saltzman Institute Professors Gartzke and Pinto's Globalization seminar and Victoria Murillo's seminar on Latin American Economic Policy. Mrs. Kirchner spoke on"Peronist economic policy and globalization." Attendance included 30 students, over 15 journalists, and 50 guests. Among them the Argentine Chief of Cabinet, the Minister of Foreign Affairs (and other cabinet members), the Argentine Consul General, and academics from Columbia, NYU, Princeton, Swarthmore and CUNY.
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Education in Wartime Associate Research Scholar, Dana Burde, has completed the pilot research for her project, "Protecting Children from War and Ensuring their Prospects for the Future: Education in the Context of Crisis and Transition." The purpose of the project is to explore and assess educational services delivered to civilian populations affected by war. Specifically it examines the effects of nongovernmental organization (NGO)-supported education on adolescent welfare, especially regarding protection from violence and improved life chances. Additional information regarding the project will be available in the coming months on the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies website. For more information click here.
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Announcement! SIWPS Professors V. Page Fortna, Erik Gartzke, Tanisha Fazal and Pablo Pinto are sponsoring the Columbia University International Poltiics Seminar (CUIPS). For a list of CUIPS seminars click here. |
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Speakers at SIWPS "Practically no one in Israel thinks the war went well or that the government managed the war well. Words that most often come up to describe the government’s handling of the war are 'inept' and 'incompetent"'. -Professor Abraham Wagner, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism. For a summary of Abraham Wagner's September September 6th talk, click here.
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Milestones Professor V. Page Fortna received tenure at Columbia University's political science department Professor V. Page Fortna's baby, Rosina Findlay Beeman-Fortna was born May 24th, 2006. Professor Tanisha Fazal's baby, Tagore Fazal Ciccone was born on August 13, 2006. |
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