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27 Jul 2022, 10:35 am by Guest Author
The godword “democratic” is prominently featured in Novak’s title—and his project, as he informs us on his opening page, is a critical chapter in the “legal-political history of American democracy” (1). [read post]
8 Jul 2022, 5:57 am by Bradley Honigberg
Researchers from Harvard’s Shorenstein Center argue that talented disinformation operators can “enable discriminatory and inflammatory ideas to enter public discourse” as fact by deliberately highlighting differences and divisions in society. [read post]
17 Jun 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin argue in a new report that disinformation targeting communities of color in three battleground states circulated as often through traditional sources of information, complicating efforts to fight it. [read post]
8 Jun 2022, 5:55 am by Paul Carroll
In May, Israel barred the heads of Addameer and the Bisan Center for Research and Development, two of the designated organizations, from traveling to the United States on their way to the World Social Forum in Mexico without explanation. [read post]
The federal government funds a great deal of counterterrorism-related research through the Department of Homeland Security and its Centers of Excellence, but it is important to recognize the significant benefits that emerge from teaching, not just research. [read post]
5 May 2022, 6:06 am by Ray Salvatore Jennings
It’s an ambitious scheme, conceived in the wake of difficult lessons learned about earlier post-war engagements. [read post]
28 Apr 2022, 6:55 am by Annie Shiel
Indeed, research by Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) and Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute found that commanders’ dual roles in directing operations and ordering investigations of civilian harm resulting from those operations created an inherent risk of bias. [read post]
19 Apr 2022, 5:51 am by Annie Shiel
Research by our organization Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) and Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute reviewed over 220 administrative investigations into civilian harm and found that the U.S. military tends to rely solely on internal records and sources when assessing civilian harm and rarely seeks information from witnesses or survivors of attacks or visits the sites of the strikes. [read post]
30 Mar 2022, 8:44 am by Laura Thornton
Research on resilience has shown that communities with a strong sense of civic life and social cohesiveness through local Girl Scouts, religious institutions, or recreation centers—along with an inclusive and trusted local government—are more durable. [read post]
16 Mar 2022, 9:05 pm by Samara Spence
GSA should learn how public users understand and use the site through user experience research and should redesign the site according to standard usability metrics, such as the number of clicks necessary to complete a task or the accessibility of information most frequently searched. [read post]
24 Feb 2022, 3:52 am by Dan Filler
  Following a successful deanship that raised $50 million, delivered balanced budgets every year, and led the School in establishing and augmenting financial support for six prominent interdisciplinary centers, the new Dean will sustain these initiatives, inaugurate a pilot on-line master’s program commensurate with SMU’s distance learning ambitions, and develop and retain faculty who complement the School’s established excellence across multiple disciplines… [read post]
13 Feb 2022, 8:03 am
  Tech is likely the biggest single threat to a human centered universe of administrative management through bureaucratized institutions that both oversee and direct. [read post]
4 Feb 2022, 9:47 am by gabrielagendreau
Alaska Native Justice Center Staff Attorney. [read post]
13 Jan 2022, 5:01 am by Quinta Jurecic
” Among the chief insights of “News After Trump” is that journalism has become “decentered”—one resource among many in a crowded media ecosystem, no longer at the center of the civic story at either the national or local level. [read post]
10 Jan 2022, 1:32 pm by Emily Dai
Using Salesforce to forecast revenues and track donor engagements. [read post]
7 Jan 2022, 11:38 am by gabrielagendreau
Fellows will produce reports and other materials for use by policymakers, journalists, advocacy groups, and civic organizations and collaborate with community-based advocates to engage the public on the impacts of public policies on their communities. [read post]
3 Jan 2022, 2:00 pm by Emily Dai
Diego Area, deputy director at the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center of the Atlantic Council, and Domingo Sadurní, assistant director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center of the Atlantic Council, will moderate the panel. [read post]
20 Dec 2021, 12:21 pm by Emily Dai
Melinda Haring, deputy director of the Eurasia Center, will moderate the discussion. [read post]
13 Dec 2021, 12:38 pm by Emily Dai
-China competition, to broader engagement with Africans themselves on security issues. [read post]
10 Dec 2021, 7:30 pm
     My late friend Congressman John Lewis was a great champion of American democracy and for civil rights around the world, learning from and gaining inspiration from other great leaders like Gandhi and Mandela. [read post]