The lack of effective responses by the EU deepen the humanitarian crisis that causes huge danger and trauma to people escaping from a clear and immediate risk of persecution in their home countries. This crisis adds one more dimension to the multiple crises Europe has been facing for some time now, and is closely interwoven with human rights protection, which is considered to be one of the EU’s greatest achievements.
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September 15, 2015
September 10, 2015
The George Soros Visiting Chair at the School of Public Policy at CEU was established to celebrate the 80th birthday of George Soros, the founder of CEU and of SPP, and the Honorary Chairman of the CEU Board of Trustees. It is funded by generous donations from his friends and family. The position is awarded to scholars or practitioners who have demonstrated outstanding academic or professional achievement in the academic, professional, journalistic, political, or civic world of public policy.
September 8, 2015
SPP’s Global Policy Academy (GPA) is organizing a rich schedule of courses this fall on a diverse set of topics: drug policy; military power, conflict management, and terrorism; policymaking; and legal empowerment. “GPA plays an important role at the School of Public Policy,” explained Founding Dean Wolfgang Reinicke.
September 2, 2015
The School of Public Policy's Center for Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery (CCNR) is hosting the second annual Lemkin Reunion on October 2. The Lemkin Reunion was established to honor the memory of Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer who is credited with first using the word genocide to denote "the destruction of a nation or an ethnic group." Lemkin, who lost 49 relatives during the Holocaust, campaigned ceaselessly during his life to develop a legal framework to define and criminalize genocide.
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