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The Aleppo Conflict Timeline

May 19, 2016
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The Aleppo Project has recently introduced another valuable study for anyone who is interested in finding out about what has happened in and to Aleppo in recent years. The Aleppo Conflict Timeline begins in 2012 when the armed conflict in Syria reached Aleppo. 

Read the full article on the Center for Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery (CCNR) website here.

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GPA UNGASS on Drugs Evaluation Workshop

May 19, 2016
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With the support of the Open Society Foundations, the School of Public Policy's Global Policy Academy hosted an evaluation workshop of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS) on May 17 in Brussels.

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For a More Comprehensive Approach to Addressing Gender Issues

May 18, 2016
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"Treating gender as a separate category is dangerous," said Steven Wolfson during a presentation to Professor Margaret Jenkins' class on Gender, Violence and War on May 10. Wolfson, who is head of the Protection Training Unit of the UNHCR Global Learning Centre in Budapest, has been working on gender-related issues for decades, including in Bosnia and Afghanistan.

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Open Skies is Key to Having an Open Society

May 13, 2016
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Despite this, civil society has been slow to embrace technologies, such as drones, that are opening our skies, observed Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick during a public lecture at the School of Public Policy (SPP) at CEU on May 12. Choi-Fitzpatrick, who was an assistant professor at SPP from 2013 to 2015, is now an assistant professor of political sociology at the Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego.

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Stephen Chan Meditates on Principles in “A World of Refugees”

May 11, 2016
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"How we treat others today becomes something by which we will justify ourselves in the future" said Stephen Chan during a public lecture at the School of Public Policy at Central European University on May 2. In his talk, he reflected on the reactions of European governments as well as the general debate about the refugee crisis.

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