The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

GPIA Presents: Capitalism Hits the Fan

Economist and Professor Richard Wolff presented his film Capitalism Hits the Fan at the New School on March 3rd and responded to questions regarding the film and the crisis.

Current GPIA student, Megan Fingleton, began in Cambodia documenting the work of a medical non-government organization and have since traveled to Honduras and Brazil. Fingelton had been photographing in the medical field for two and a half years and found the desire to use photography and her experience in medical settings to make a greater impact. You can view her amazing work on her website.

GPIA Presents: Media in the Age of Obama

The New School graduate program in International Affairs hosts a conversation between Gary Younge and Ian Buruma that considers the medias coverage of the Obama White House. Has their coverage affected global perceptions of American politics, the War on Terror, or the meaning of American leadership? Buruma and Younge offer their views.

On February 9th, 2010, Dr. Erin McCandless presented her paper “In Pursuit of Sustainable Peacebuilding: Where the UN’s Peacebuilding Architecture Needs to Go” at a workshop on The Future of the United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture held at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations. The research is part of a project sponsored by the Center for International Policy Studies (CIPS) at the University of Ottawa, and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), designed to provide inputs into the UN Peacebuilding Commission’s 2010 review.

GPIA Instructor's Max Fraad Wolff's latest Huffington Post article Burning Down the House

A White Paper written for the United Nations by a Spring 2009 Practicum team is being featured in The Drum Beat, the e-magazine of the Communication Initiative Network, an online space for people and organisations engaged in or supporting communication as a strategy for economic and social development and change. 

The paper, "Information Communication and Technology (ICT) in Education for Development," was written by GPIA students and now graduates Brian Gutterman, Shahreen Rahman, Jorge Supelano, Laura Thies, and Mai Yang, and faculty supervised by Ambassador Rafat Mahdi. The authors explore current ICT use in education and its potential benefits to current and future users, analyse examples worldwide, and share lessons learned and recommendations. The Practicum client was the UN Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technology and Development (GAID), which originally published the team's paper in June 2009, with a printing of 500 copies for distribution at the annual GAID conference in Monterrey, which team member Brian Gutterman also attended. The paper was also featured in the GAID monthly e-newsletter, posted on its website as well as that of the United Nations Public Administration Network, where it quickly became a top 10 download. In December 2009 the paper was also used as background documentation for participants in an ICT-for-MDGs workshop in Bangkok, and is expected to be circulated at roundtables this year at Santiago and Geneva.