Global Studies Collective

The CUNY Ph.D./M.A. Program in Political Science,

The Center for International Human Rights, John Jay College, and

Global Studies Collective

Present

WOMEN OF FAITH AS AGENTS OF PEACE

Jacqueline Ogega

Director, Women’s Mobilization Program at Religions for Peace, overseeing the Global Women of Faith Network worldwide and PhD researcher, University of Bradford, UK

Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010

Location: Student Lounge, Political Science Program, room 5200.

Time: 6:00 to 8:00 pm

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

365 Fifth Avenue, at 34^th Street

RSVP: norhan.basuni@jjay.cuny.edu

Refreshments will be served!

This event is open to the public. Please bring your friends!

Tags: human rights

If you’re at the International Studies Association’s conference in New Orleans next week, come and see us:

Tags: foreign policy, global governance, human rights, international relations, ISA, security, transitional justice

The CUNY Ph.D./M.A. Program in Political Science,

The Center for International Human Rights, John Jay College, and

Global Studies Collective

Present

a Talk on

How to Integrate International Human Rights Principles into Religious and Customary Legal Systems

by

Yüksel Sezgin

Assistant Professor of Political Science

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

City University of New York

Date: December 10, 2009

Place: Room C205

Time: 6:00 to 8:00 pm

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

365 Fifth Avenue, at 34^th Street

RSVP: Dr. M. Victoria Pérez-Ríos, mvprios@jjay.cuny.edu or

Paulette Weiss, paulettes@aol.com

Refreshments Served!  Bring your friends!

Tags: human rights, lecture

The CUNY Ph.D./M.A. Program in Political Science, The Center for International Human Rights, John Jay College, and Global Studies Collective present a Panel Discussion with

Dr. Robert Zuber, Director, Project for a UN Emergency Peace Service and Global Action to Prevent War, on Religious Congregations and ‘Good Faith’ Efforts to Promote Human Rights, Human Security and a Culture of Peace

And

Mr. Daniël Prins, Chief, Conventional Arms Branch, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, on Curbing the Excessive Accumulation of Small Arms

Discussant: Prof. George Andreopoulos, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, CUNY

Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009

Place: Room 9206

Time: 6:00 to 8:00 pm

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

365 Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street

RSVP: Dr. M. Victoria Pérez-Ríos, mvprios@jjay.cuny.edu or Paulette Weiss, paulettes@aol.com

Refreshments Served!  Bring your friends!

Tags: human rights, panel

On Saturday, I presented “The Response to Nuclear Proliferation,” a social network analysis of cooperation to prevent proliferation, at the ISSS/ISAC conference in Monterey, CA.

Abstract:

This paper uses the methods of social network analysis to discover the structural patterns of cooperation that arose in response to a global traditional security problem. It does this by mapping compulsory and institutional power relations (Barnett and Duvall 2005) among actors responding to the proliferation of nuclear weapons since the end of the Cold War. For the institutional power measure, I use treaty and international agreement membership; and for the compulsory power measure, I use contractual obligations for nuclear expertise, materials, and technology. By mapping the relationships at the system level of world politics, including individual states as well as intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), transnational nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and transnational corporations (TNCs), this paper finds a third relation among these actors, namely, structural power. It also demonstrates how a network approach to the constitution of system level world politics can produce knowledge not available to traditional methods.

Tags: international relations, social network analysis

The CUNY Ph.D./M.A. Program in Political Science,The Center for International Human Rights, John Jay College, and Global Studies Collective

Present

Intersecting Narratives: Faith, Food, and Human Rights

Kirk Harris
Program Associate
The United Nations Liaison Office of Mennonite Central Committee

Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009
Place: Room 9206
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 pm

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street

RSVP: Dr. M. Victoria Pérez-Ríos, mvprios@jjay.cuny.edu or Paulette Weiss, paulettes@aol.com

Refreshments served; bring your friends!

If you want a copy of the presentation, please contact Dr. M. Victoria Pérez-Ríos, mvprios@jjay.cuny.edu

Tags: human rights, lecture

The Global Studies Collective

2008 — 2009

Constitution

Mission

The mission of the Global Studies Collective is to provide the Graduate Center community with an inter-disciplinary forum for research, discussion, and networking relating to scholarly and professional pursuits on issues of contemporary international and global relevance.

To bring together student and faculty from various departments, including but not limited to Economics, History, Anthropology, Political Science, and Sociology, to discuss issues of spirituality, globalization, development, diplomacy, human rights, migration and diaspora(s) and transnationalism.

To support and encourage students and faculty from various departments in the study of various aspects of global and local-distant relations.

To convene forums and meetings on issues that are important to the research agenda of its members and members of the broader Graduate Center community

Membership

Membership shall be comprised of matriculated and non-matriculated students within the Graduate Center who indicate their wish to assume the privileges and responsibilities of membership.

Each member in good standing who is a matriculated student may hold any office in the organization.

Each member in good standing, matriculated or non-matriculated, holds one vote.

Each member shall be entitled to participate and be a member of other associations within the Graduate Center.

Tags: constitution, mission statement

Welcome to the Global Studies Collective!  Watch this space for further developments.