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by Zack McCune
2 years ago
Something about castles almost perks my interest. I think this is a particularly American debilitation, as we simply grow up reading, watching films, and dream about castles but with no access to them. So when Colleen and I got the chance to head...
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by Avraham Kenny
2 years ago
Jacques is the guard at the office building where GHI is based. He's a nice guy who's always joking around and laughing, and tries to teach me new Kinyarwanda words every morning. I can always expect an “Avi! Bitesse!” when I arrive at the office,...
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by Sarah K
2 years ago
And now I exhale. A fourteen hour flight from JFK to Delhi with some delays on either end, but I am finally in Gurgaon, staying with a lovely couple (Maggie & Ajit) who have agreed to let me stay with them for the duration of my trip. Arati, my...
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by Katie Gannett
2 years ago
This week has been full of a variety of wonderful cultural activities set up for participants and delegation leaders. On Tuesday morning, the participants were divided into mixed-delegation teams for some “integration” exercises. Different...
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by Jordan Worthington
2 years ago
So my time here in Timor-Leste has been quietly fraught with politics and bureaucracy. Not in an extremely overt way, but the troubles of establishing order have influenced the work I've done from time to time. I'll back up though. I've been...
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by Rafael Juliano
2 years ago
This past week I was to interact with students, interview them on their thoughts regarding the Vestibular (the standardized university admissions test), to learn more about what the current situation is,and how it affects them as students....
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by Hannah Olson
2 years ago
I’m of two minds about the safety of this place: one the one hand, it seems like everyone I talk to is on a campaign to tell me (and everyone else they meet) how safe Guanajuato is. I want to believe them because so many businesses are failing and...
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by Quyen Ngo
2 years ago
Yesterday was a minor fail in an interview attempt…
I went to go attempt to interview a principal at a school (most of the contacts I have contacted ahead of time are teachers and students, less officials). Unsurprisingly, he was not okay with...
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by Eric Johnson
2 years ago
Hello, and--if you're new to these pages--welcome!Hello, and--if you're new to these pages--welcome! Even if you haven't visited before, you might have been told that the Global Conversation is powered by the blogging efforts of students and faculty...
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by Ryan Lester
2 years ago
The final BIARI interview is with Mario Negre, a researcher here at the BIARI Institute on Climate Change and its Impacts. We talked about bridging the gap between academic research and policy making, between academics and legislatures.
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by Ryan Lester
2 years ago
Today we have the last two BIARI interivews. First is Lydia Olaka, from Kenya here at the BIARI Institute on Climate Change and its Impacts. We talked about the problems of water supply and ecology.
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by Samura Atallah
2 years ago
I have three weeks and three days left here. I find this difficult to write but I decided that journalism isn't for me. Talking to Iraqis immigrant made me realize that I can dwell on the memories, the dysfunctionality of the new state, and the...
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by Chantal Berman
2 years ago
Tom Mboya street in Nairobi is where we catch our matatus, speedy, circuitous minibuses that carry us between radio sites, city center, and our hotel. Tom Mboya is also manager of Koch fm (pronounced like “coach”), an entirely youth-staffed radio...
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by Matthew Garza
2 years ago
The U.S. Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is financing the construction of a new, 23- month project, airport in Bamako, Mali to "open up the country and ease air links between Mali and other countries, improving commercial connections and...
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by Zak Leonard
2 years ago
It is a lamentable fact that the Brown's Year of India has concluded. And yet, this news should not be overly distressing, for Brown University libraries boast a myriad of materials on Indian arts and culture. I recently stumbled upon the Minassian...
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by Katie Gannett
2 years ago
I ended up having a great visit with Altus Sport and had a chance to observe several of their different activities, though my visit was brief. On Tuesday, I went with Steffi and Ulf, two German Altus Sport volunteers, to an area of Pretoria to...
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by Zack McCune
2 years ago
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There was a great mix of excitement and anxiety about attending our first GAA match. For one thing, we had never before seen a complete gaelic game. I mean we had never seen one start to finish, kick-off...
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by Hannah Olson
2 years ago
It seems to me that Mexico’s very poor and Mexico’s very rich live beyond the reaches of its struggling government.
I first thought about this when I took a taxi to a market outside of town in a desert area; it wasn’t the market of our imaginary...
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by Saskia Brechenmacher
2 years ago
Not quite up-to-date, but worth remembering - in Spring 2009, the Czech Republic for the first time assumed the 6-month long rotating EU presidency. The country in charge of the presidency is responsible for the functioning of the...
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by Saskia Brechenmacher
2 years ago
After my first few weeks in Prague, which flew by incomprehensibly quickly between adjusting to the new environment, discovering the city, reuniting with friends and starting my internship at EUROPEUM, the Prague-based Institute for European Policy...
