Invites you to the first event of the Spring series: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERSAND THE SHRINKING OF CIVIC SPACES Date: Thursday, March 31 2022Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m (EDT)
Marcus Brand, International IDEA’s Head of Programme for Myanmar and former UN Development Programme Ukraine Director, speaks with Ralph Bunche Institute Director John Torpey about the parallels between the military coup in Myanmar and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including unexpected resistance, humanitarian crises and massive refugee flows, and possible optimism about what it means for the future of democracy.
Friday 1 April 2022. Noon-1:15 PM (Eastern Daylight Time) “Ukrainian Scholars on War, Genocide, and the Holocaust” Russia’s attack on Ukraine has resulted in the destruction of
How can previous conflicts inform what is happening in Ukraine? What is the credibility of the UN in conflict mediation? What should the stance of
The Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies condemns the unjustified Russian invasion of Ukraine and the brutal war it is conducting against the Ukrainian people.
What is Putin’s mental state? Is this the autumn of Putinism? Is the invasion a legitimate response to NATO expansion? This week, RBI director John Torpey talks to Queens College Professor Julie George about the real motives behind the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the role of NATO and the U.S. in the invasion, the views of Russians and Ukrainians about the war, Putin’s miscalculations of the world’s reaction, and the prospects of nuclear weapons being deployed in the conflict.
Ellen Chesler talks with former director of UNIFEM Noeleen Heyzer about what was to be a woman in leadership, the constraints of advancing an agenda
What do the patches in Tom Cruise’s jacket tell us about China? How is China shaping the entertainment? What do the preferences of Chinese moviegoers
In the United States and Europe we live today in what seems to be a sea of populism; some on the left, some on the
How is power linked to the way we eat? Has inequality boosted the amount of unhealthy food we consume? How have things changed since Diet for a Small Planet was first published in the early 1970s? This week on “International Horizons,” RBI Director John Torpey talks with Frances Moore Lappé about the politics of food and how the way we eat interacts with structures of power – and what we can do about changing that for the better.