On Monday, Mickey Jackson, STAND’s Student Director, and I will join President Obama’s top foreign policy advisors to discuss the administration’s strategy toward sub-Saharan Africa and the role that human rights advocates can play moving forward. We will discuss how, together, we can craft a more responsible, innovative, and progressive foreign policy in the region.
This is the fourth in a series of four posts recapping Imagining the Unimaginable: Ending Genocide in the 21st Century, a symposium held yesterday at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The event featured a keynote address by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, two panels, and a presentation of the results of a poll on public perceptions of mass atrocity prevention. This post summarizes Mark Penn’s presentation of the poll findings.
This is the third in a series of four posts recapping Imagining the Unimaginable: Ending Genocide in the 21st Century, a symposium held yesterday at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The event featured a keynote address by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, two panels, and a presentation of the results of a poll on public perceptions of mass atrocity prevention. This post summarizes the second panel, Innovative Solutions in Responding to Future Challenges.
This is the second in a series of four posts recapping Imagining the Unimaginable: Ending Genocide in the 21st Century, a symposium held this morning at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The event featured a keynote address by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, two panels, and a presentation of the results of a poll on public perceptions of mass atrocity prevention. This post summarizes the first panel, Over the Horizon: Global Trends Affecting Genocide.
This is the first in a series of four posts recapping Imagining the Unimaginable: Ending Genocide in the 21st Century, a symposium held this morning at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The event featured a keynote address by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, two panels, and a presentation of the results of a poll on public perceptions of mass atrocity prevention.
Are you interested in helping students across the country take their activism to the next level? Maybe you’re a skilled researcher with an passion for Central African issues. Maybe your chapter had a great lobby meeting at your local Congressional office, and you want to help other chapters achieve the same success. Maybe you spend your free time coding, or trying out the newest social media platform. If any of these apply to you, there’s a Task Force position that will allow you to put your skills to use!
Vija Lietuvninkas writes about her experiences organizing a workshop on "Perceptions of Genocide." Vija is a rising junior at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania majoring in Peace, Development, and Gender Studies.
“Turning point” has been used frequently to describe the evolution of Syria’s sixteen-month conflict. The term has come to refer to little more than a large-scale atrocity event, which, in spite of widespread moral outrage, fails to mobilize international action.
“Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
Hey STAND, my name’s Danny Hirschel-Burns and I’m a rising junior at Swarthmore College and a member of Swarthmore STAND. After attending the spring STAND conference my
freshman year, I found myself very frustrated with STAND and unsure I wanted to continue involving myself with the organization. STAND camp changed all of that. It was the most intense period of thought and conversation I’d had since I began college. I was surrounded by intelligent, motivated, and
