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March 9, 2016

"So many crises come together in Ukraine making it a particularly interesting country to look at," said Marcus Brand, UNDP's Democratic Governance Advisor in Ukraine during a private lunch discussion with SPP students at the School of Public Policy's Global Policy Academy on March 4 (Chatham House Rule applied).

March 8, 2016

Analyzing democratic policy decision making and counterinsurgency, Global Challenges Junior Fellow Medha Chaturvedi presented a case study on left-wing extremism in India on March 2. The left-wing insurgency today in India includes roughly 45-50,000 foot soldiers, and is the longest ongoing insurgency in India since its independence in 1947.

February 29, 2016

During the 20th Georgetown University Transatlantic Policy Symposium (TAPS) on "Divided Europe? Straining the Limits of Unity," Fatlum Gashi (MPA '17) presented his research paper on how the refugee crisis in Europe has strained EU political cooperation. Gashi was one of eight graduate students selected from a pool of applicants from over 30 countries to participate in this one-day conference organized by the Center for German and European Studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

February 15, 2016

"It looks very different from the inside," explained Karin Landgren. She was commenting on UN Peace Operations during a presentation to students enrolled in International Policy Practice, a two-credit elective course at the School of Public Policy.