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My growing fascination with climate change The first time I understood that the world did not have infinite resources was in the year 2000 when someone told me it would take seven planets to sustain the current level of world … Read more

Applied Field Experience (AFE) became Amazing Field Experience (still AFE)! Searching for an AFE opportunity: Spending two to three months in the field, between my first and the second-year of graduate school as a Rotary Peace Fellow, sounded like a … Read more

  I arrived in Ukraine on May 6. For the next three months, part of my afternoon coffee break routine included checking the Ukrainskaya Pravda website. Every day I would read what seemed to be the same headline, with only … Read more

Living a Dream – Summer Internship at UNDP This summer I am doing my applied field experience at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) headquarters in New York. By now I’m halfway through the internship, just starting my sixth week … Read more

On the first day of my internship at InStepp Inc., I attended an orientation session which explained the importance of understanding the numbers associated with human trafficking. ‘There were 110[1] cases of human trafficking that were reported by phone service … Read more

Para leer este blog en español, haga clic aqui The spicy taste of life in Sri Lanka On Reconciliation, Head Waggles and Local Hospitality Intro A little over a month ago, I arrived in Sri Lanka with the sole objective of … Read more

“Is he purposely hitting every pothole on the road?” As I try to hold on to something, anything, on the cargo bed of the pick-up so I don’t completely embarrass myself falling off, I couldn’t help but think that the … Read more

Building Capacity through Regional Coordination Mechanisms in Small Island States   Over 230,000 human lives lost, 1.7 million people displaced, an estimated US$ 9.9 billion in losses and damages, and a long and expensive recovery process to build back better … Read more

Inequity is often the cause of conflicts small and large, whether it is reflected in the denial of basic rights and privileges to marginalized populations or the lack of institutions and structures which prevent these groups from climbing up the … Read more

Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education (EDC/HRE) – Council of Europe History sometimes seems dangerously cyclical and as fallible human beings we are likely to repeat old mistakes. Past episodes of civil or political conflict become part of … Read more

Names in different places “See, that’s my real name!” I am a child in war-torn Bosnia, showing my birth certificate to my friends. On it, I crossed out my real name, and put a different one – one that would … Read more

Overall Impression I had a great privilege of working at the UNFPA Kenya Office this summer. The UNFPA, also known as the United National Population Fund, was established in 1969 with an aim of ‘delivering a world where every pregnancy … Read more