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Bengali Youth Platform Shorob.com, Founded by Nuruddin Ahmed (MPA ’16), Shortlisted for the Social Media for Empowerment Award

October 17, 2014
Founded by Nuruddin Ahmed (MPA ’16), youth platform shorob.com is a finalist for the Social Media for Empowerment Award 2014 in the Community, Advocacy, and Development Activism category. “I’m very excited to be in the running with great organizations across South Asia,” Ahmed commented.

Quiet Diplomacy – A Useful Tool?

October 16, 2014
“Quiet diplomacy is a common tool to promote human rights but because it happens behind closed doors, we usually know very little about it. Of course it can be useful, yet that is not always the case,” explains SPP Visiting Professor Katrin Kinzelbach. Her book, The EU's Human Rights Dialogue with China: Quiet Diplomacy and its Limits was just published by Routledge.

SPP and the Council of Europe Co-organize Workshop Focused on the Black Sea Region

October 15, 2014
The School of Public Policy (SPP) at Central European University and the Council of Europe co-organized a five-day immersion workshop for future democratic leaders from the Black Sea region October 6-10, 2014. Thirty-two researchers, policy makers, entrepreneurs, and activists from seven countries traveled to Budapest to participate in a series of engaging discussions to develop practical solutions to regional policy problems in the areas of democratic institution building, security policy, and transition economics.

Carothers Explores the New Global Marketplace of Political Transitions

October 14, 2014

“We are seeing a new environment for political transitions, a new global marketplace,” explained School of Public Policy Distinguished Visiting Professor Thomas Carothers in his public lecture at CEU on Monday evening.

Associate Professor Gina Neff Explores Emerging Technologies at SPP, and Beyond

October 10, 2014
School of Public Policy (SPP) Associate Professor Gina Neff is a founding member of the Board of Advisors of Data & Society Research Institute, an international policy center that will explore some of the ways that new types of data are transforming our world. Neff explains, “There are enormous implications, which we don’t fully understand, due to the quantity and types of data that are being collected all the time. There is an urgent need for a place like Data & Society, which sits at the intersection of government policy, industry, NGOs, and academic research.”