Originally posted by Dan Arnaudo on May 1st On April 20, the Jackson School’s International Policy Institute Cybersecurity Fellow and alumnus Dan Arnaudo (MAIS, 2014) released his report “Brazil, the Internet and the Digital Bill of Rights” at an event hosted by the Igarapé Institute in Rio de Janeiro. The report, published by Igarapé with support from Open Society Foundations,

MARCH 22, 2017 POSTED BY: MONIQUE THORMANN   What do a U.S. Navy Admiral, American and foreign ambassadors, NGO directors, Indigenous Peoples leaders and a group of University of Washington international studies majors have in common? On March 10 they collaborated on transforming Jackson School student research on pressing world issues into actionable data. Ambassador of

Since the 1970s the global Indigenous movement, building on the human rights movement, has gained considerable momentum. In 2000, the United Nations founded the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues as the central coordinating body for matters related to Indigenous peoples; in 2007, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was ratified establishing international legal

The University of Washington Center for Human Rights and Center for Global Studies invite teachers to submit lesson plans to add to our growing online resource that supports human rights efforts in El Salvador.  A limited number of $500 stipends are available for teachers to create lesson plans for the Unfinished Sentences Testimony Archive. Subjects

Dan is currently an International Policy Institute Cybersecurity Fellow and a graduate of Jackson School (MAIS 2014). He has published a new report discussing computational propaganda in Brazil.

Come and join the Center in the International Policy Institute Arctic Fellow’s symposium on Friday, June 2nd 2017, from 9 AM to 5 PM in the Walker Ames room at Kane Hall. Registration is required! Please RSVP to canada@uw.edu by Friday, May 26th. This symposium features presentations, interviews and films from experts and students, on topics such

Originally posted on March 16th 2017 by Beth Do “It took two decades of war between the USSR and the U.S. to understand that nuclear weapons alone are not a credible deterrence to conventional warfare,” said John M. Deutch to over 150 students, faculty and community members who filled Walker Ames in Kane Hall to capacity

POSTED BY: ODED ORON A group of Jackson School undergraduate students together with Washington state’s Tulalip Tribes launched a new interactive digital story “Finding Common Ground in a World of Environmental Change” to over 50 UW students, faculty and local communities who gathered Monday evening at UW’s Intellectual House to learn more about environmental issues affecting the

Performing arts and music as a bridge for cultural understanding Article by Aleenah Ansari, Feb 27, 2017 On Saturday night, the stage of Meany Hall was full of Bollywood performers from UW Kahaani who shifted between Bharatanatyam, a classical dance form from South India, to a hip hop section featuring the Kanye West track “Mercy.” The audience

Article by Michael Kim Last Thursday, the Simpson Center for the Humanities hosted a talk given by Iruka Okeke, a professor of pharmaceutical microbiology at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Johanna Crane, an adjunct assistant professor who studies global health sciences, introduced Okeke. Crane described the emphasis of Okeke’s last book on adequate diagnostics