In March, a team of graduate students from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) advised by Jen Weedon visited Columbia Global Center Rio de Janeiro as part of their capstone project developed in partnership with Fundação BRAVA.

The Institute of Global Politics Women’s Initiative and the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute convened a public discussion on the future of human rights in US foreign policy.

In a wide-ranging conversation hosted by Columbia SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics, Salam Fayyad discussed questions of state-building, institutional development, and reform under constraint.

The PEIF conference brought together policymakers to hear political science and economic scholars present summaries of their ongoing research projects.

To commemorate International Women’s Day, the Institute of Global Politics (IGP)’s Women’s Initiative  convened leading policymakers and advocates from around the world to release a new report, Accelerating Efforts to End Child Marriage

Efforts to keep girls in school and other actions to reduce child marriage are being disrupted by economic shocks, cutbacks in global humanitarian assistance, retrenchment in women’s rights and the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to researchers and experts in international development.

The Women’s Initiative at Columbia SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics (IGP), together with the Center for Global Development (CGD), has released a new report titled Accelerating Efforts to End Child Marriage.

IGP hosted a Rapid Response webinar analyzing the unprecedented US–Israeli strikes on Iran, unpacking the latest developments, from shifts in regional power dynamics and uncertainty in Tehran to broader implications for nuclear diplomacy, global economic markets, and security across the Gulf.

In a wide-ranging conversation hosted by Columbia SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics, Mona Lena Krook discussed her new book, Elect Women for a Change: The Path to Gender Parity in Politics, which examines how to achieve greater gender parity in politics.

IGP’s Women’s Initiative hosted the Gambian human rights activist Jaha Dukureh to discuss child marriage and the future of women’s rights, drawing on her experience as a survivor of child marriage.