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From Research to Practice: An Inside Look Into Countering Hate and Violent Extremism
From Research to Practice: An Inside Look Into Countering Hate and Violent Extremism
Thought Partnerships invites you to a behind the curtain conversation with the Peace Science Digest team and members of our Peer Learning Community on November 30 at 11 am EST. This event will spotlight the special issue focusing on countering hate and violent extremism, a collaborative project between Thought Partnerships and the War Prevention Initiative…
What is Happening to the Uyghur People in China? | Rushan Abbas & Abdulkarim Idris
What is Happening to the Uyghur People in China? | Rushan Abbas & Abdulkarim Idris
Since 2017, the Chinese government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs — a mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic group living in the northwestern region of Xinjiang — in “re-education camps.” Human rights organizations and international observers have reported systematic state-organized mass imprisonment, forced labor and sterilization, torture and persecution — extensive crimes against humanity that the U.S. government has…
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Global Ties Forum: How the World Sees the United States Today
Global Ties Forum: How the World Sees the United States Today
What do people around the world like and dislike about U.S. society and politics? How does global public opinion affect U.S. soft power as we increasingly need allies to advance foreign policy? What does this also mean for U.S. citizens who work to support our foreign policy goals via citizen diplomacy? Join our partners at Global…
John Ghazvinian | America & Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
John Ghazvinian | America & Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
Join us for a rich and fascinating discussion as historian John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations between the U.S. and Iran back to the Persian Empire of the eighteenth century. Drawing on years of archival research both in the United States and Iran, Ghazvinian explores where, how, and when things took a wrong turn in this relationship. Why did…
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December Power Breakfast – Meet the New Faces of Oregon Economic Development
December Power Breakfast – Meet the New Faces of Oregon Economic Development
This month's Power Breakfast will bring together our state’s new economic development powerhouses. They’ll share their vision for the future, as well as how they work collaboratively with the business community. Meet Our Speakers: Sophorn Cheang, Director, Business Oregon Monique Claiborne, President & CEO, Greater Portland Inc. Maria Isabel Ellis, Economic Equity Manager, Oregon Department…
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Goalmakers National Conference
December 8th and 9th 2021 The Goalmakers annual conference is the premier event for global development practitioners, funders, companies, and partners on the West Coast. The past 18 months will be remembered as a period of massive global disruption and upheaval. The overlapping crises of the pandemic and social inequities have also created an opportunity to reset, re-imagine, and…
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GlobalPDX Development Drinks
GlobalPDX Development Drinks
Development Drinks is a monthly gathering hosted by GlobalPDX, for people interested in world affairs and international development. This social event is a chance to connect with others and to learn about the work of GlobalPDX members. This networking event has been going on for years, and was the spark that lead to the…
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Human Rights Day
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home -- so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look…
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To Bear Witness – Extraordinary Lives
“To Bear Witness” takes its name from the words of the late Nobel Prize-winning writer, activist, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who emphatically proclaimed, “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” And so we present these profiles of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust, genocides in Europe, Africa, and Asia, and unimaginable atrocities…
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Longreads Club | Dual Agenda: In Ethiopia’s civil war, Eritrea’s army exacted deadly vengeance on old foes
Longreads Club | Dual Agenda: In Ethiopia’s civil war, Eritrea’s army exacted deadly vengeance on old foes
When Eritrea sent troops into the Tigray region, the secretive nation seized a double opportunity: It detained thousands of Eritrean refugees as it battled Ethiopia’s former rulers. Spearheading the bloody campaign: a colonel nicknamed "Son of Bread." READ THE ARTICLE
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To Bear Witness – Extraordinary Lives
“To Bear Witness” takes its name from the words of the late Nobel Prize-winning writer, activist, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who emphatically proclaimed, “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” And so we present these profiles of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust, genocides in Europe, Africa, and Asia, and unimaginable atrocities…