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Gender and Sexuality in the Islamic Culture

Oct 26, 2016, 7:00-8:30 pm EDT
Rackham Amphitheatre
Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, former judge, and human rights activist. Ebadi will be introduced by Bridgette Carr, clinical professor of law at the University of Michigan.

Interrupting systemic violence, restorative accountability and reparative policy frameworks: A comparative conversation on race, gender and the urban economy of place in South Africa and the U.S.

Apr 7, 2016, 5:00 pm EDT
Weill Hall, O'Neill Classroom (1230)
The social, structural and systemic violence prevalent in poor urban and peri-urban communities continues to have devastating consequences for the human beings—men, women and children—who live there. These communities, designated commonly as poor “Communities of Color,” find themselves living in vicious sets of circumstances, having to contend with captive and destructive social and economic conditions of existential emergency from which very few escape. This comparative panel conversation will critically engage discourse approaches that blame poor ‘black, brown, red’ and other ‘communities of color’ for the violence they experience socially, without addressing the complex historical, political and policy legacies of pain.
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Race, violence, public policy and social trauma: Restoring community in Chicago's urban context

Apr 6, 2016, 4:00 pm EDT
Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium
This lecture will explore the relationship of public policy to the impact of social trauma in communities of color in the urban context.  It will discuss how oppressive social conditions and militarized and masculinized public institutions foster and may be responsible for racialized and gendered injuries in the public sphere.
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Human Security Series

Climate Change and Crisis in the Middle East

Mar 11, 2016, 1:00-5:30 pm EST
Annenberg Auditorium, 1120 Weill Hall
This interdisciplinary symposium focuses on contemporary and historical cases analyzing the relationship between climate change and social conflict in the Middle East. 
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International Policy Center (IPC) film series

The Village Under the Forest

Jan 7, 2016, 6:00-7:35 pm EST
Betty Ford Classroom- Weill Hall
Unfolding as a personal meditation from the Jewish Diaspora, The Village Under The Forest explores the hidden remains of the destroyed Palestinian village of Lubya, which lies under a purposefully cultivated forest plantation called South Africa Forest. 
Ford Policy Union

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Nov 18, 2015, 5:00-6:30 pm EST
Weill Hall- Annenberg Auditorium
Khalil Shikaki and Shai Feldman will discuss how developments such as the 2015 Israeli elections, U.S.-Iranian nuclear deal, and recent Palestinian diplomatic initiatives have affected the dispute and prospects for a peace deal. Each speaker will offer brief remarks, followed by Q&A from the audience.  
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Human Security Series

Ukraine: Post-conflict strategies

Nov 5, 2015, 6:00-7:30 pm EST
Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium
A panel discussion on the future of Ukraine addressing the far reaching implications of reconstruction aid and development; legal status of the Crimean Peninsula; re-establishment of international frontiers; resettlement of refugee and IDP populations; demobilization of armed forces and militia; reconstruction aid and development and the prosecution of alleged war crimes. 
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Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison

Oct 13, 2015, 5:10 pm EDT
Rackham Auditorium
Based on the 13 months she spent in the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut on money laundering charges, Piper Kerman’s memoir, Orange is the New Black, raises provocative questions about the state of criminal justice in America, and how incarceration affects the individual and communities throughout the nation.
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Global Policy Perspectives

Unaccompanied Minors

Mar 9, 2015, 6:00-7:30 pm EDT
Fisher Classroom 1220 Weill Hall
Join Amnesty International’s U-M chapter and the International Policy Student Association to discuss immigration policy with Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof; History Department, and Ann Lin; Ford School of Public Policy. We will be exploring the historical, legal, and political aspects of responding to the unaccompanied minors crisis.
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International Policy Center (IPC) film series

A River Changes Course

Nov 21, 2014, 4:30-6:30 pm EST
Weill Hall, Betty Ford Classroom
From Cambodia’s forests to its rivers, from its idyllic rice fields to the capital’s pulsing heart, forces of radical change are transforming the landscape of the country – and the dreams of its people. A River Changes Course intimately captures the stories of three families living in Cambodia as they strive to maintain their traditional ways of life amid rapid development and environmental degradation. Award winning filmmaker and director Kalyanee Mam will offer introductory remarks, and take questions from the audience following the film screening. 
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The Gaza War: A different approach to understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict

Nov 5, 2014, 4:00-5:30 pm EST
Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium
Featuring Khalil Shikaki from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, Shai Feldman from Brandeis University's Crown Center for Middle East Studies, and Abdel Monem Said Aly from the Regional Center for Strategic Studies in Cairo, this panel is part of the series "Middle East Dialogues: Conversation on the Arab/Israel conflict".
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International Policy Center Film Series: "The Prosecutor"

Oct 9, 2014, 7:00-9:00 pm EDT
Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium
"The Prosecutor" examines the International Criminal Court, its successes, and its critics. It follows the work of the Court's first prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, and the challenges  he and the Court have faced in seeking to prosecute some of the world's most notorious human rights offenders.  
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Book Talks @ The Ford School

Hybrid Justice: The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

Sep 19, 2014, 12:00-1:00 pm EDT
Weill Hall, Betty Ford Classroom
In his book with co-author Ann Heindel, John Ciorciari examines the contentious politics behind the tribunal's creation, it's flawed legal and institutional design, and the frequent politicized impasses that have undermined its ability to deliver credible and efficient justice and leave a positive legacy.
Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Lecture Series, Policy Talks @ the Ford School

Khmer Rouge Trials: Serving to End or Compound Cambodia's Culture of Impunity?

Apr 21, 2014, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT
Weill Hall
About the event In a conversation moderated by Susan Waltz, Margo Picken and John Ciorciari will discuss the positive and negative effects of the UN-backed Khmer Rouge trials that began several years ago in "extraordinary chambers" of the courts of Cambodia. Will they bring "closure" to the country's dark past?
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Human Security Series

Understanding Political Violence in 1994 Rwanda

Apr 10, 2014, 8:30 am-5:00 pm EDT
Michigan League, Koessler Room
Free and open to the public. About the event: 20 years have passed since the political violence in Rwanda occurred touching the lives of millions as victims, perpetrators, bystanders and refugees. While there has been a reasonable amount of attention given to the topic, there have been only a few rigorous efforts put forward to understand what took place. Interestingly, the understanding of what took place has shifted in certain respects from the earlier investigations.
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Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Accountability in Public Institutions

Apr 2, 2014, 4:30-6:00 pm EDT
Weill Hall
Speakers: Major Ian Fishback, West Point Colonel (ret) Paul Yingling In 2007 Colonel (ret) Paul Yingling published an influential article in the Armed Forces Journal criticizing senior leadership for perceived failures in the conduct of the post-invasion Iraq War occupation. Yingling served three tours in the Iraq War, first as executive officer of 2nd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery in OIF 1, later as the effects coordinator for the 3rd ACR from March 2005 to March 2006, during OIF III, and finally as J5 for TF 134 (Detainee Operations) from April 2008 to July 2009.
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