Ralph Bunche Institute

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The Ralph Bunche Institute offers a wealth of research and public programming on international affairs, human rights, and conflict resolution.

  • Besieged Voices from Ukraine (part 2)

    Russia's attack on Ukraine has caused the death and injury of thousands, the forced flight of millions, and the physical destruction of cities and towns. Poet Iya Kiva, journalist Olga Tokariuk, and art historian expert on Jewish heritage in Ukraine, Eugeny Kotlyar, will address the complexities of lives disrupted and the experience of unfolding war from the perspectives of their three professions. Please join us to learn from them.
    Co-Chairs: Natalya Lazar and Elissa Bemporad.

  • Suppression of Self-Determination

    CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    Launch of a report into Spain's influence on the tools of repression used to silence activists around the world. September 21, 2022 1PM - 3PM

  • Agential Power and Structural Power, Causal and Non-Causal

    Political Science Lounge, GC Room 5200 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, United States

    Agential Power and Structural Power, Causal and Non-Causal Arash Abizadeh (McGill University)Thursday, October 13, 6:30 p.m. (ET)Political Science Lounge, GC Room 5200 And online via ZoomCo-sponsored by the GC Political Theory

  • “Post-Roe America: Women and Human Rights”

    Virtual bit.ly/3QVelvP, New York

    The historical record is marked by voids: elided events; disappeared people; erased accounts; marginalized communities.  So is our own era.   The Center for the

  • Russia’s War on Ukrainian Heritage, Yet Another War Crime

    Originally published at https://katoikos.world/analysis/russias-war-on-ukrainian-heritage-yet-another-war-crime.html By Tom Weiss, RBI Emeritus Director The nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine’s words inspired Raphael Lemkin, the drafter of the 1948