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SPP students return to Budapest from fruitful OSIRG internships

October 9, 2014
“I don’t want to say mind-blowing, but I can’t think of another word to describe the experience,” reflected Rumbidzai Masango (MPA ’15) on her summer with the Open Society Internship for Rights and Governance (OSIRG). This past summer, five School of Public Policy (SPP) students participated in OSIRG, a highly competitive program that allows selected students from top public policy schools to undertake six- to eight-week internships at policy- and rights-oriented NGOs around the world.

To Seek and Save the Lost: How American Evangelicals Think about Slavery and Emancipation

October 7, 2014
Assistant Professor Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick has written a fascinating article for the most recent issue of the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. Austin explains that the article brings together two things that he’s been interested in for a long time: American politics and religion.

Privacy Breaches in Europe Report

October 7, 2014
Half of all the privacy breaches affecting people in Europe are inside jobs according to new research from Central European University. The findings come from a report released by the Center for Media, Data and Society directed by Phil Howard, CEU Professor of Global Media and Communication. The project applies rigorous empirical social science methods to the study of digital media and society.

SPP’s CMDS welcomes the Responsible Data Forum to Budapest

October 3, 2014
The Center for Media, Data, and Society (CMDS) at the School of Public Policy (SPP) at Central European University (CEU) co-hosted, along with the Open Society Archives, the Budapest Responsible Data Forum, part of a collaborative event series organized around the world since March 2014.

Great Powers, the Responsibility to Protect, and the Global Order

September 29, 2014

School of Public Policy (SPP) Dean Wolfgang H. Reinicke is one of three guest editors, with Associate Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) Philipp Rotmann and GPPi Director Thorsten Benner, of a special issue of Conflict, Security and Development. “Major Powers and the Contested Evolution of a ‘Responsibility to Protect’” contains contributions from a team of researchers from Brazil, China, Europe, and India.