In her talk, “Forging Lasting Peace: Movements for Justice in a Pluralist World,” Gbowee wove personal stories with what she sees as the tenets, the requirements, of successful peace-building movements – movements that not only end conflict but ensure dignity for all citizens.

Launched by the Office of Global Learning (OGL), the story circles initiative is intended to bridge the gaps in intercultural understanding between Cornell’s international and domestic populations. 

Eleanor Paynter and Rachel Beatty Riedl, Migrations postdoctoral fellow and faculty member respectively, co-write this article about how a new United Kingdom program will endanger migrants, not protect them. 

These six students, with their participation in programs through Global Cornell, the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement and their colleges, demonstrate Cornell’s commitments to purposeful discovery and changing lives through public engagement.

A visiting critic in the Institute for European Studies, part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Dmitry Bykov will be in residence for one to two years, engaging with Cornell faculty and students and completing several writing projects.