Past Programs
Fish vs. Cattle: Conflict Mitigation in South Sudan
September 24, 2012 Patrick Murphy, was the “fisheries expert” for the USAID project in South Sudan under the direction of AECOM South Sudan gained its independence from Muslim (North) Sudan in 2011 after decades of hot and cold Civil War. The world rejoiced. The Arab North would no longer be oppressing the
Bureaucracy Does its Thing: US Performance in Afghanistan
June 15, 2012 Todd Greentree, former political/military advisor US forces in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Angola and Afghanistan Most Americans are relieved that the international intervention in Afghanistan is winding down more than a decade after 9/11. Can the absence of clear cut victory despite a considerable investment of blood and treasure be attributed to
Hungary Today: Examining Solutions to Intractable Problems
December 8, 2011 Deborah Cornelius, historian of East Central Europe Why has the popularly elected government of this small nation surrounded by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia and Croatia received so much criticism? Why has Slovakia challenged a recently enacted law allowing ethnic Hungarians living in regions formerly part of Hungary to
Rebuilding Iraq: What worked? What Didn’t? What Next?
November 17, 2011 Richard S.D. Hawkins, led an embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team of 40 subject matter experts in the rural and conflict laden eastern and southern zones of Baghdad Province from February 2008-April 2009 Central to the U.S. effort to help Iraq rebuild were the Provincial Reconstruction Teams, civilian-led groups of experts
Crisis in the Eurozone: Germany and the PIGS
September 30, 2011 Christine Sauer, Professor of Economics and Director of the International Studies Institute at the University of New Mexico. A native of Germany, she received her undergraduate training at the University of Kiel Fear of contagion from the 18-month old Greek debt crisis grips other Eurozone countries with high fiscal
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
June 9, 2011 Cheryl Rofer, CEO NuclearDiner blog Exactly what happened and why? What were the sources of confusion during the first days after the disaster? What were and are the dangers to people in Japan and across the Pacific in the U.S.? All in all, a presentation designed to separate fact
