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September 2, 2015

The School of Public Policy's Center for Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery (CCNR) is hosting the second annual Lemkin Reunion on October 2. The Lemkin Reunion was established to honor the memory of Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer who is credited with first using the word genocide to denote "the destruction of a nation or an ethnic group." Lemkin, who lost 49 relatives during the Holocaust, campaigned ceaselessly during his life to develop a legal framework to define and criminalize genocide.

July 21, 2015

With the support of Open Society Foundations, the School of Public Policy’s Global Policy Academy hosted a two-day workshop on July 13-14. It was organized and facilitated by SPP Professor and Associate Dean Julia Buxton with Peter Sarosi from the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union and Maria Phelan from the International Harm Reduction Association.

July 14, 2015

Four public policy students graduated from CEU in June 2015 with more than just their diplomas. They left also with Outstanding Academic Achievement Awards. Each year, CEU bestows these prestigious awards to graduating master's students from every department and school who have earned the highest GPA (grade point average). The four public policy students who were recognized for academic excellence in June 2015 were: Dustin Biero (MPA ’15), Lena Jacobs (MA ’15), Robert Papp (MPA ’15), and Myles Stiffler (MA ’15).

July 1, 2015

One Passion Project team celebrated UNHCR’s World Refugee Day on June 21 by participating in the Greek Forum of Refugees (GFR) “Europe: Protection or Exclusion” event.