“A lot of what we do and accomplish in the world is done through organizations,” noted SPP Visiting Professor Elena Krumova. Teaching the core class “Organizations in Practice,” Krumova aims to prepare her students to understand and thrive in the world of organizations.
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During a faculty research seminar at the School of Public Policy (SPP) on November 7th, Visiting Research Fellow Brett Wilson made a number of salient observations on religion and nationalism in Turkey. Wilson, who is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Macalester College, has been conducting research on modernization and religious transformation in the Muslim world with a focus on Turkey and the eastern Mediterranean for many years.
“Quiet diplomacy is a common tool to promote human rights but because it happens behind closed doors, we usually know very little about it. Of course it can be useful, yet that is not always the case,” explains SPP Visiting Professor Katrin Kinzelbach. Her book, The EU's Human Rights Dialogue with China: Quiet Diplomacy and its Limits was just published by Routledge.
“I don’t want to say mind-blowing, but I can’t think of another word to describe the experience,” reflected Rumbidzai Masango (MPA ’15) on her summer with the Open Society Internship for Rights and Governance (OSIRG). This past summer, five School of Public Policy (SPP) students participated in OSIRG, a highly competitive program that allows selected students from top public policy schools to undertake six- to eight-week internships at policy- and rights-oriented NGOs around the world.
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