1.Urbanization and Insecurity: Crowding, Conflict, and Gender
Tuesday, February 18 | 12:00 – 2:00pm
5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center; 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
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Recent comparative studies of rapidly growing cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have identified a variety of threats to women’s personal security and an equally varied set of government and community responses. This seminar features presentations of the results of large-scale comparative studies as well as ethnographic studies that highlight the role of gender in urban violence.
SPEAKERS
Alison Brysk
Fellow
Mellichamp Chair in Global Governance, Professor, University of California Santa Barbara
Richard Cincotta
Global Fellow
Demographer in Residence, The Stimson Center
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato
Visiting Senior Researcher, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Alfred Omenya
Principal Researcher & Architect, Eco-Build Africa, Nairobi Read more
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A New Diplomatic Power: You, February 14, 2014
This review is from: Righting the Balance: How You Can Help Protect America (Hardcover)
This is one of those rare books that when you reach the last page you have a moment of shocked disappointment that there isn’t more. I had been completely won over by Serwer’s vision and was ready to see more detail about how to make it happen when my Kindle announced the last page.
After I got over my disappointment that the book was really over, I went back to look at the paragraphs I had bookmarked. Almost all of them related to the role of citizen diplomacy. I had expected that the book would be mostly about government institutions and what they should and shouldn’t be doing. But what was most interesting about his arguments was how much the world has changed to allow individuals to have a greater impact, more even than the foreign affairs bureaucracy and in far more varied ways. The core of Serwer’s book is about how to take advantage of that change, how to reflect the power of individuals and communities and civil society groups in shaping and implementing a foreign policy agenda. That means not only a major shift for the institutions and the people involved but for the nature of the agenda itself.
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