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Thursday, February 11, 2021

With a challenging academic year ahead, a consortium of Centers and Institutes will offer funding for proposals that cultivate student engagement and enhance the online learning experience for Columbia students and instructors. As many universities and colleges grapple with the reality of online and hybrid instruction in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty members, teaching assistants, instructors, and students prepare to learn and teach in unprecedented ways. Structuring engaging online or hybrid courses is not a simple task.

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

SIPA Professor Joanne Bauer's latest essay in Rights CoLab argues that to reduce risk and strengthen social license, investors must cultivate relationships with human rights defenders. The article shines a spotlight on the 2015-2016 Business and Human Rights Clinic, a course she taught jointly sponsored by ISHR and SIPA. 

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Wednesday, July 22, 2020

The COVID Solidarity project, a map of community organizing related to COVID-19 in the US has now been launched.

Accounting for the Missing in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Beyond.
Monday, July 13, 2020
by Lara J. Nettelfield
This article was originally published in Kosovo 2.0. and OpenDemocracy
Saturday, June 20, 2020

By Lara J. Nettelfield and Rebecca Kobrin

Saturday, June 20 is World Refugee Day, honored by the United Nations to raise awareness and educate the public about refugees, their basic rights, their situation around the world, and the responsibilities of states to grant them asylum.