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| Start Date and Time | Event Details |
| Thursday, November 10, 2011 |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | (Cancelled) Conflict, Security, and Development: Ethiopia's Planned Gibe III Hydrodam
This brown-bag lunch series is a collaboration with the Center
for Human Rights and Global Justice at the NYU School of Law, the Office
for International Programs at the NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School
of Public Service, and the Master’s Program in Global Public Health.
It examines new research, creative policy approaches, and recent
innovations in addressing security and development challenges in
conflict and post-conflict
contexts.
Location: NYU Wagner at the Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor
Ethiopia's Planned Gibe III Hydrodam: Dismantling Pastoral Survival
Systems, Armed Conflict and Political Destabilization in the
Kenya-Ethiopia-Sudan Border Region
Claudia J. Carr, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Faced with intensifying geographic confinement and overgrazing
of lands inhabited for centuries, pastoral groups in the
Sudan-Ethiopia-Kenya transborder region have turned to alternative
survival strategies - namely, recession (flood) cultivation and fishing
in the
Omo River and throughout Kenya’s Lake Turkana. The Gibe III hydrodam,
planned by international development agencies and the Ethiopian
government as the world’s second tallest dam, would radically reduce the
Omo River’s flow and the waters of Lake Turkana, thus destroying
subsistence activities within the region. Carr discusses these critical
issues and the potential for a collapse of indigenous economies
throughout the area.
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| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Peace Corps Information Session
PEACE CORPS INFORMATION SESSIONS
Peace Corps volunteers provide technical assistance to nonprofits, NGOs, local governments, communities, schools, health posts, and small businesses in more than 70 countries around the world in the fields of business, health, education, agriculture, urban youth development, forestry, NGO development, social work, community development, and the environment. Positions are available for U.S. citizens with a wide variety of backgrounds.
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| 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM | Bad Company- The Sultans of Smack
BAD COMPANY:
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE NEW GLOBAL UNDERWORLD
Crime pays, and criminals are actors on the world stage whose powerful (if often hidden) role in the modern world has yet fully to be understood. Criminals run globe-spanning businesses that supply narcotics, trafficked people, and illegal services. They arm insurgents and destabilize governments. They bypass national and international regulations on everything from financial transactions to environmental standards.
Moderated by:
Mark Galeotti, M.S. in Global Affairs academic chair and clinical professor
The Sultans of Smack: Turkey, the Heroin Trade and the Alliance Between State and Organized Crime
Dr. Ryan Gingeras, assistant professor, National Security Affairs Department, Naval Postgraduate School
Turkey
has a long history as a source and above all gateway for Europe’s
heroin. Just as oil has helped shaped the modern Middle Eastern states,
heroin has been a key factor in Turkey’s long transition from empire to
nation-state. Not least, it has been at the heart of the formation of
what many inside and outside of academia have called the “deep state,” a
conspiratorial collection of politicians, soldiers, intelligence
officers and criminals shaping national politics. Dr Ryan Gingeras,
of the Department of Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School
in Monterey and an expert in the troubled and violent politics of Turkey
will explore both the historical roots of this connection between drugs
and politics and its implications for modern Turkey.
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| 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Master of Science in Publishing Online Information Session
Learn about this renowned 42-credit master's degree program that provides students with a thorough knowledge of all aspects of the book, magazine, and digital publishing industries. Courses are taught by a faculty of leading professionals who are actively engaged in many of America's top publishing companies. Industry visits, workshops and panel discussions provide valuable, first-hand knowledge and networking opportunities. A strong internship program helps students with limited publishing experience to gain important hands-on training. An annual career fair enables students to meet with top recruiters. Evening classes and flexible, full- or part-time schedules are available.
Click the following link to R.S.V.P. today and to reserve your place for the Master of Science in Publishing: Digital and Print Media session:
Click Here
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