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May 25, 2016
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"I've been interested in the Domari for some time," explains Yahya Al-Abdullah (MPA '17), "ever since I lived among the community in Aleppo for four years." Al-Abdullah grew up in Aleppo and knows the city well. "I was struck by how these people lived. They were stateless, so they had no access to basic rights or community services," he remembers.

May 19, 2016
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The Aleppo Project has recently introduced another valuable study for anyone who is interested in finding out about what has happened in and to Aleppo in recent years. The Aleppo Conflict Timeline begins in 2012 when the armed conflict in Syria reached Aleppo. 

Read the full article on the Center for Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery (CCNR) website here.

May 18, 2016
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"Treating gender as a separate category is dangerous," said Steven Wolfson during a presentation to Professor Margaret Jenkins' class on Gender, Violence and War on May 10. Wolfson, who is head of the Protection Training Unit of the UNHCR Global Learning Centre in Budapest, has been working on gender-related issues for decades, including in Bosnia and Afghanistan.

May 5, 2016
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This year Meghan Moore is serving as a Holbrooke Fellow and academic researcher with the School of Public Policy's Center for Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery (CCNR). "It's an amazing opportunity to step back and look at conflict-related issues from a very different perspective," she explained.