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Pedroza Addresses ALADI on Human Mobility Issues in Latin America

March 23, 2016

SPP Visiting Professor Luicy Pedroza gave a web seminar at the General Secretariat of the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI) to stakeholders in the process of social integration in ALADI member states. ALADI is a regional organization comprising 13 Latin American countries and promotes reciprocal trade and the development of economic cooperation.

Jibladze Successfully Defends Dissertation on Higher Education System Reform in Georgia

March 23, 2016

On February 26, Elene Jibladze successfully defended her PhD dissertation on "Suspended Development: Institutional Transformation and Lack of Improvement in the Higher Education System of Post-Revolution Georgia" receiving the distinction magna cum laude. Jibladze has earned a PhD in Political Science from the CEU Doctoral School in the higher education stream of the public policy track.

Zsuzsanna Jakab on Current Challenges for the World Health Organization

March 22, 2016

As a consequence of the recent Ebola outbreak the World Health Organization (WHO) initiated a comprehensive reform "to address all hazards flexibly, rapidly, and responsively", said Dr. Zsuzsanna Jakab, regional director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, at a lecture she gave at the CEU School of Public Policy on March 4.

Open to Opportunities, Looking for Challenges

March 21, 2016

Agnes Doka (MAPP '11) has had an interesting life – one that has taken her to Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Italy, Libya, Pakistan, Uganda, and many other places in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. There has been a good deal of continuity too. "Wherever I go and whatever I do, it involves communications in some way. That's what I've always been doing," she says.

Rebuilding Aleppo

March 21, 2016

"I don't have any answers, but I do have a lot of questions," explained Lena Wimmer, architect and researcher. The questions relate to the rebuilding of Aleppo, a divided city that has suffered enormous destruction, especially since mid-2012. The damage has been especially great in the neighborhoods of the old city where intense fighting has taken place. As Wimmer noted, it is not just the buildings that have been destroyed. So too has a good deal of the trust and goodwill that once existed in Aleppo.