Panelists offered different perspectives about the controversial March 2016 agreement between the European Union and Turkey during a discussion at the School of Public Policy's Global Policy Academy on June 10. The EU-Turkey agreement includes the provision that Turkey will accept migrants and refugees to be returned from Greece, and that the EU will start resettling Syrian refugees directly from Turkey.
Green Spider media lab founder and film director Laszló Bihari and activist Vera Kovács shared their experiences of working with film and other media in Hungary during SPP's Annual Conference, the view from here: artists // public policy.
Mexico poses a number of questions including an ongoing and extremely violent war on drugs, high levels of inequality and poverty, and questions of identity and immigration to its wealthy neighbor, the U.S., said Associate Dean Julia Buxton.
In a conversation during the School of Public Policy's Annual Conference (the view from here: artists // public policy), David Kaye, Dunja Mijatovic, and CEU Assistant Professor Sejal Parmar agreed that free speech is under attack around the world. They agreed also that art is a form of free speech, and that it had to be defended just as rigorously as free speech.
School of Public Policy Visiting Professor Tom Wales recently offered a day-and-a-half-long course on scenario modeling to master's students enrolled in the four-credit "On the Political Economy of Global Governance" course. Wales introduced SPP students to scenario planning, a tool that has been used by organizations for many years to inform their planning for the future.
