News and Event Highlights
News and Event Highlights
Workshop participants explored the potential causes and pathways of land and space-based scenarios that might trigger a wider crisis in space and how to avoid conflict escalation in this domain.
Camille François participated in the Inaugural high-level dialogue of the Faith-AI covenant of the Interfaith Alliance, gathering religious and spiritual leaders along with technology leaders to bridge the gap between the “Builders” and the “Stewards” (moral and spiritual leaders), presenting IGP's Technology & Democracy Initiative work on child safety safeguards.
Researchers, policymakers, and AI experts at a Columbia SIPA convening warned that generative AI and social media advertising systems are accelerating online scams and called for stronger platform accountability and regulatory oversight.
SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics (IGP) hosted Jean-Noël Barrot, French minister for Europe and foreign affairs, for a discussion on the evolving rules-based world order and Europe’s role in fostering international cooperation and stability.
My Father and Qaddafi, a documentary about a daughter’s search for her father under Qaddafi’s rule, was followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker about Libyan identity, memory, and Qaddafi’s political legacy.
A new Institute of Global Politics report authored by SIPA faculty addresses a list of achievements and recommendations for the United Nations to strengthen multilateralism going forward.
As part of an IGP faculty grant-funded project on the impact of generative AI on democracy, Tamar Mitts and Rumela Sen hosted a workshop centered on comparative approaches to AI regulation, with a focus on India’s evolving regulatory framework.
The Institute of Global Politics’ American Democracy Initiative and the Urban and Social Policy Concentration at Columbia SIPA hosted a discussion with American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten about her book Why Fascists Fear Teachers.
76th US Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew, Professor of International and Public Affairs and IGP Faculty Policy Director at Columbia SIPA, spoke with Arvind Krishna, Chairman and CEO of IBM.
An IGP simulation explores the challenges of finding consensus and nominating a new secretary-general amid veto power held by the UN Security Council’s five permanent members.