The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Organization: Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development
Team: Stela Petrova, Maxim Muzykus, Leila Gheit, Vasti Cedeno, Justine Caccamo
Summary: Students worked with Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development, an independent non-partisan Kosovo think-tank, to provide papers on security challenges and threats, and analyzed Kosovo's and international community's presence for meeting these identified threats and challenges. Click above on project title for full explanatory document.

Organization: UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID)
Team: Doriana Molla, Andrea Borde, Charles Fromm, Farzad Kapadia, Eleece Sherwood, Jane Brandt Sørensen
Summary: Students developed a policy guide for UNDESA & DAID for ICTs to explore how ICTs can contribute to achieve Health (Child and Maternal Health, HIV/AIDS) MDGs.

Organization: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Team: Tiffany Wheatland, Zein Rahemtulla, Mari Flora, Lauren Horowitz, Lamese Bader
Summary: The UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Violence Against Women worked with the PIA team to analyze and develop a working paper based on an ongoing piloting programming initiative to address violence against women in 10 countries - Philippines, Fiji, Kyrgyzstan, Yemen, Jordan, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Chile, Jamaica and Paraguay that addresses issues relevant to violence against women.

Organization: Cities Alliance
Team: Frédéric Choiniére, Meghan Holohan, Marisse Del Olmo Crenier
Summary: The Cities Alliance developed a new mode of work in the University Urban Research Initiative (UURI) which would directly engage universities in both developing and developed countries to strengthen urban development initiatives. Students worked with Cities Allaince to complement existing networks and professional associations, and enhanced the contribution of the Cities Alliance to urban development.