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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
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Northwestern researchers in @BuffettInst's Making Water Insecurity Visible Global Working Group developed a 30-minute, at-home lead test now being piloted in Chicago and Evanston homes. Read the full story via @CBSChicago:
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
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"Winters, looking across history, believes that the U.S. has reached 'peak oligarchic power,'" says @eosnos in a @NewYorker piece featuring Jeffrey Winters, Director of @BuffettInst's Equality Development & Globalization Studies & a @PoliSciNU Professor:
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
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Learn more about this Buffett Global Working Group tackling gender disparities in leadership across sectors through interventions at universities: . This event is designed in partnership with @UTokyo_News_en and Ochanomizu University.
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
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The Buffett Institute's Empowering the Next Generation of Women Leaders Global Working Group is hosting a leadership-focused networking event and discussion for women enrolled in Tokyo universities. πŸ“… July 1.πŸ“Ochanomizu University in Tokyo.πŸ”— More info:
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
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Commission co-directors @jrezaian & Jon Alterman (@CSISMidEast) visited the Northwestern @BuffettInst for Global Affairs this spring to share insights from the report in conversation with Northwestern University Professor Danielle Gilbert.
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
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The @CSIS Bi-Partisan Commission on Hostage Taking & Wrongful Detention released its long-awaited report on new tools to combat state hostage taking as well as key areas for international cooperation, US government organization, & outreach to US citizens.
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
2 months
Last month, we convened leading diplomats, negotiators & academics to discuss high-profile peace processes of recent decades. They examined successes & failures of past processes with a view to resolving today's conflicts. Listen to the recordings:
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
2 months
@eshurd This event is co-sponsored by the Global Religion & Politics Research Group, @MENAprogramNU, @PoliSciatNU and @N_WesternRelSt and will include discussion with @thisisUIC's Barbara Sostaita and @PoliSciatNU's Emma Davis.
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
2 months
Join us for a Buffett Book Talk with @eshurd on her book "Heaven Has a Wall," which analyzes how the US creates, enforces & ignores borders at home and abroad. πŸ“… May 21 at 4 PM.πŸ“ 720 University Pl. 🍷 Reception to follow.πŸ”—
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
2 months
@USC @NickCull @NickCull will be joined in conversation by @NU_SoC's Erik Nisbet. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Communication & Public Policy at @NU_SoC.
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
2 months
#1: Join us for a conversation with @USC's @NickCull on "reputational security," the idea that a nation's safety & security are strengthened by being well-regarded internationally. πŸ“… May 22 at 12:30 PM.πŸ“ 720 University Pl. πŸ”— Register:
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
2 months
RT @MedillSchool: Join Medill and the @BuffettInst for a lunchtime conversation with Cameroonian author and journalist @HamanMana on his ne….
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
2 months
RT @Brent_Huffman: A beautifully written piece about my Documenting #Carceral Injustice Program at @NorthwesternU @MedillSchool - thank you….
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
2 months
Presenters included Ines Sommer, Aisha Hamid and Elshadai Aberra of the Pritzker Pucker Studio Lab at @NU_SoC; Megan Morrell the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science at @IPRatNU and Uma Thachapuzha of @NUFeinbergMed.
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
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With the support of a @BuffettInst Global Collaboration Grant, @NUQatar's @SMeekings and @NUFeinbergMed's Catherine Belling convened scholars, filmmakers & practitioners to examine how storytelling can shape trauma processing & recovery. Learn about the work presented &
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
2 months
Those in the Chicagoland area can get an exclusive preview of @eshurd's forthcoming "Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders & the Global US" at our Buffett Book Talk with her on Weds. May 21 at 4 PM on @NorthwesternU's Evanston campus. Learn more and RSVP:
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2 months
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
3 months
@munkschool @RonDeibert @NorthwesternU @ForeignAffairs To hear more from Deibert, join us for a discussion on cyber espionage, subversion & the global fight for democracy. πŸ“… May 13 at 5:30 PM.πŸ“ Segal Visitors Center.πŸ”— Learn more and register: . This event is co-sponsored by @WCCIAS.
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
3 months
"The SignalGate episode is a terrible failure of operational security. But it is not a one-off mistake," shares @munkschool's @RonDeibert, Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor of International Studies at @NorthwesternU, in his @ForeignAffairs op-ed:
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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
3 months
Speakers include IstvΓ‘n RΓ©v of @ceu, Andrzej Rychard of @PAN_akademia, @yunusunbabasi of @UniBogazici and Johanna Mick Clausen of @Uniandes. Moderated by @adam_tooze of Columbia University. Co-organized by @BuffettInst and @global_thoughts at Columbia University.
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