During a public lecture at the School of Public Policy at CEU on June 4, Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance at the University of California, Santa Barbara Alison Brysk shared some of what she has learned from her more than 25 years of research on the politics of human rights. Brysk began her presentation by quoting from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“It was a great success. We had ten computers, and 13 people,” summed up Daniel Szugyi (MPA ’16). The 13 people who crowded into the Student Computer Lab on the second floor of Oktober 6 utca 7 on June 1 participated in a unique event: crowdsourcing to collect data that will be used to build a database with information about accidents and violations in the garment industry of Bangladesh. The event, which was organized by HRSI and three SPP students, attracted participants from throughout CEU.
“It is the book I published with Brookings Press centered on key challenges in global energy governance that led to my involvement with the G7 meetings,” says Andreas Goldthau.
CEU participants in the 2015 Allianz Summer Academy organized a roundtable on June 1 to discuss their preliminary report entitled “Open Borders, Closed Minds: EU Asylum Policy in Crisis.”
Holbrooke Fellow Armenak Tokmajyan participated on behalf of the Center for Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery's "Aleppo Project" team at a four-day conference at Haigazian University located in Beirut, Lebanon, the heart of the Middle East.
