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| July 27th, 2011
It's been nearly a month since the Eisenhower Research Project released the Costs of War! The response from the public has been great--thousands of readers have shown us how much they care about what we've lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan,... -
| June 30th, 2011
One-hundred eight people (at minimum) died in detention in the first four years of the war on terror. And according to the Costs of War research team, at least 80 more have died since then. As you might expect, "US disregard for international law in... -
| June 29th, 2011
The Costs of War has been in the wild for fewer than 24 hours, but it's already the subject of much attention online. Above is the video report from Reuters--click here to read the accompanying written article. However, Reuters is hardly the... -
| June 29th, 2011
Who was Rakan Hassan? Who would he have been? He was just 14 when he was killed in Iraq in June 2008, and while the loss of anyone so young is always tragic, Rakan was just one of at least 137,000 civilians who have died as a result of the past 10... -
| June 29th, 2011
The costs of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan are estimated at 225,000 lives and up to $4 trillion in U.S. spending in a new report by scholars with the Eisenhower Research Project at Brown University's Watson Institute for... -
| June 27th, 2011
The Costs of War debuts Wednesday, June 29 at 1 AM EST. And now there’s a Facebook event so you can show others you’re attending. Please share this link widely—the more people who learn about this project the better: http://www.facebook.... -
| June 22nd, 2011
President Obama is expected to announce tonight at 8:00 EDT that he will withdraw 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year, and an additional 23,000 by the end of next summer. Although it's tempting to think of this as merely a... -
| June 20th, 2011
October will mark the 10-year anniversary of the start of the US war in Afghanistan, followed by the war in Iraq and now Pakistan - events that have changed our world. The Costs of War is a forthcoming project that seeks to measure and analyze those... -
| October 10th, 2010
With the launch of the new Global Conversation website, we've had an explosion of new bloggers; with over 50 active conversations, it can be overwhelming to get started on the site, or even keep up if you've been away for a couple days or weeks. "... -
| August 25th, 2010
Visitors to our homepage this month may have noticed two new widgets in the sidebar: one for Facebook, and one for Twitter. If you have an account on one or both of those sites, please take a few seconds to "like"/follow us there! You can find our... -
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August 12th, 2010
On Tuesday, I posted this article about how our bloggers were received in theOn Tuesday, I posted this article about how our bloggers were received in the countries they visited. When I emailed all of them last month, I also asked for stories about...
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August 10th, 2010
A few weeks ago, I emailed our Global Conversation bloggers, asking them a series of questions related to their experiences abroad.A few weeks ago, I emailed our Global Conversation bloggers, asking them a series of questions related to their...
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August 9th, 2010
Hello, and welcome to another recap of the best of the Global Conversation. This is the third such recap; you can find the previous entries here (7/19-7/26) and here (7/26-8/02). Now, without any further ado, let's take a look at some of this past...
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August 2nd, 2010
Hello, and welcome to another weekly recap of the Global Conversation. As always, the Conversationalist is only highlighting a few posts today, but you can browse through our complete archives by visiting the home page. From there, click through to...
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August 2nd, 2010
You may have seen Matthew Garza's posts earlier this summer from Mali.You may have seen Matthew Garza's posts earlier this summer from Mali. Even if you haven't, you'll want to check out his blog, the Mali Music Project; at that site, he has his...
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July 26th, 2010
Those of you who were reading this blog last week probably saw my first weekly Global Conversation recap. So, what have the bloggers been talking about this week? Read on to find out. Heritage at Play The well of videos about Irish sports may be...
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July 19th, 2010
Hello, and welcome to what we hope will be the first of many weekly posts here on the Global Conversationalist blog. I'm Eric Johnson, and I'm working with the Watson Institute this summer on the Brown campus.Hello, and welcome to what we hope will...
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July 1st, 2010
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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June 25th, 2010
Fellow Global Conversation blogger Zack Leonard and I split up the final day's morning sessions - his coverage of the second, "Just International Climate Policies," should be up soon. Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. It seems like only...
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June 24th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. It's been a long ride, but the 2010 BIARIs are almost over. Today was my penultimate lecture, and although it didn't have the dynamic scope of the last one I attended, it was still plenty interesting and relevant...
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June 22nd, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. The BIARI crowd in attendance today at Barus & Holley got a real treat: Dov Sax, an assistant professor of biology here at Brown, led "Climate Change and Biodiversity," yet another impressive and detailed...
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June 21st, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. The discussion of the real-world implications of global climate change rolled on today with "Climate Change and Food Security," a morning session led by plant breeder Ignacio Romagosa from Lleida, Spain's School of...
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June 21st, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. The "Climate Change and its Impact" BIARI carries on through the end of this week at Brown, and I expect it'll be the focus of my writing in the coming days. Before I get to today's main session (full details on...
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June 18th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. A three-hour talk about grasslands may not sound very interesting on paper, but I attended a surprisingly engaging one Thursday morning at the "Climate Change and its Impacts" BIARI. Specifically, Colorado State...
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June 16th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. Sort of like my second day covering the 2010 BIARIs, today was all about rethinking big societal institutions that affect our everyday lives. First up was the opening session for "Rethinking the Political," the...
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June 15th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. For a change of pace, and as a treat for the end of the Global Humanity's BIARI's "Performance as Memory" section, the group convened today in the Rites & Reasons Theatre instead of the Brown/RISD Hillel. The...
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June 14th, 2010
. Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. Last week's two BIARIs--"Towards a Critical Global Humanities" and "Development and Inequality in the Global South"--are still ongoing this week. But today, two more programs start: "Climate Change and its Impacts...
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June 11th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. As the first week of this year's BIARIs comes to a close, I'm not surprised to see that the sessions continue to produce fresh, great questions. It reminds me of a class I took here at Brown last fall, an...
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June 10th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. Both BIARIs today focused on economics in the morning sessions. Over in Kassar House, the Development & Inequality morning session addressed how to use economic and sociological tools to measure inequality. I...
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June 9th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. My Wednesday began in the social hall of Brown's Hillel building, where the sessions of the "Towards a Critical Global Humanities" BIARI are taking place. Harvard University's Roberto Unger opened the day with his...
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June 8th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. Another day, another panel. Not that that's a bad thing. Today's opener at the Development and Inequality BIARI was "Governance and Inequality: The Urban Question in Comparative Perspective." Our group from...
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June 7th, 2010
Location: Providence, RI, U.S.A. Two BIARIs start today on the Brown campus--one is "Development and Inequality in the Global South," while the other is "Towards a Critical Global Humanities." In search of a session that would set the tone for the...
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June 3rd, 2010
Hello, and welcome to the BIARI 2010 blog! BIARI stands for "Brown International Advanced Research Institutes," a series of programs now in their second year designed to bring great minds together around international issues at Brown...
Eric Johnson
Profile
Hello! I'm a recent Brown graduate and a New Media Assistant at the Watson Institute for International Studies. I blogged throughout BIARI 2010, but I also do a lot of work behind the curtain here at the Global Conversation. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me!
