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SPP Professor Works to Eradicate Modern Slave Trade
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Human trafficking is a growing aspect of transnational crime, rising with the increase in regional conflicts, natural disasters, lack of employment in developing countries, international mobility, trade, and communications. According to School of Public Polciy Professor Louise Shelley, human trafficking is the most lucrative of organized crime activity after drug and arms trade.
A leading expert on transnational crime and terrorism with a particular focus on the former Soviet Union, Shelley is presently completing a book for Cambridge University Press entitled Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective in which she examines the consequences of trafficking on social, political, and economic life internationally. Shelley is the founder and director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) that moved with her from American University to Mason. TraCCC analyzes effective antitrafficking policies, hosts fora on the subject, and develops academic courses on trafficking and a range of transnational crime, corruption issues at SPP.
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Taking a Different View Using Spatial Data and Simulations |
Naoru Koizumi loves solving a mystery. She enjoys discovering hidden facts and uses computer modeling and simulations, as well as geographic information systems (GIS), to tease out answers to important questions.
“[These methods] often reveal information that wouldn’t necessarily be found through statistics alone,” says Koizumi, an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy. “Sometimes if you visualize [the data], the answer is so obvious.”
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ICASIT – Good Return on Investment |
Finding good return on investments can be a challenge in these economic times, but through its projects the School of Public Policy’s International Center for Applied Studies in Information Technology (ICASIT) demonstrates many opportunities and success stories still exist.
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March 7, Konflikt (Swedish Public Radio)
Professor Louise Shelley discusses, on the Swedish Public Radio international affairs program, corruption and organized crime and its...
March 6, Politico
Professor Mark J. Rozell and Mitchel A. Sollenberger write an op-ed about executive privilege and recent controversies. An excerpt follows: “Obama needs to move swiftly to articulate an official policy for the use of executive privilege. This latest controversy reveals that he cannot leave the topic murky and...
March 5, The Situation Room (with Wolf Blitzer, CNN)
Professor James Pfiffner was interviewed by CNN about White House staffing and appointments. The videotape was part of the program The Situation Room. An excerpt from the transcript follows: “JAMES PFIFFNER, GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: They don't have personnel power. That means that they can't hire and fire people, or tell cabinet secretaries to...
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Honors, Appointments |
Ron Hira (PhD ’02) was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor (effective September 2009) at the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Technology and Society/Public Policy Department. His SPP dissertation...
Shannon R. Howard (current MPP student) was one of three winners for her paper “The Life and Death of the Millennium Challenge Corporation” at the seventh ...
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Distinguished Senior Fellow Rex Brown wrote “Working with Policy Makers on Their Choices: A Decision Analyst Reminisces” for the March 2009 Decision Analysis, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
Professor Kenneth J. Button wrote “The Impact of US-EU ‘Open Skies’ Agreement on Airline Market Structures and Airline Networks,” which appears in the March 2009 Journal of Air Transport Management.
Professor Stuart S. Malawer wrote U.S. National Security Law: Sourcebook of Cases, Laws, Treaties and Documents, published by William S. Hein & Co. Inc., 2009. The work has received excellent endorsements from Senator Patrick Leahy, Georgetown University professor emeritus P. Gibert, and former Virginia governor Gerald L. Baliles.
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Professor Christopher T. Hill presented “Science and Technology Information for Congress: Can Wikipedia Do the Job?” during the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s...
Phillip W. Magness (PhD student) presented his paper “Colonization after the Emancipation Proclamation: Abraham Lincoln’s Emigration Projects in Belize and British Guyana, 1863–1864”...
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March 16
Government Consulting Workshop
6:00pm - 7:15pm
Arlington Campus
Original Building, Room 317
March 18
Peace and Stability Operations Colloquium Series
Sponsored by SPP Peace Operations Policy Program
"Prisions: The Forgotten Element of Rule of Law"
Speaker: Donald Stolworthy
1:00pm - 3:30pm
Arlington Campus
Original Building, Room 251
RSVP: afrendak@gmu.edu
March 19
SPP Master's Programs Open House
6:30pm
Arlington Campus
Original Building, Room 329
Register Now
March 20
Grad & Professional Etiquette Dinner
Sponsored by School of Public Policy and University Life
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Arlington Campus
Original Building, Room 329
Tickets are limited for all Arlington Campus grad & professional students. Cost is $10
For information and details view the flyer
March 25
SPP PhD Information Session
7:00pm
Arlington Campus
Original Building, Room 329
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March 27
Doctoral Student Research Workshop
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Arlington Campus
Original Building, Room TBA
Contact: Monique Helfrich, mhelfrich@gmu.edu
March 27
SPP Alumni Chapter Annual Signature Event
A House Divided: Challenges Facing the Obama Administration
Keynote Speaker: Mason professor, The Honorable Tom Davis
6:00pm - 8:30pm
Arlington Campus
Original Building, Room 329
Contact: sppalum@gmu.edu
RSVP
April 9
SPP Alumni Chapter Meeting
7:00pm
Arlington Campus
Original Building
Dean's Conference Room
April 15
Doctoral Student Research Workshop
2:30pm - 4:10pm
Fairfax Campus
Finlay Building, Room 119
Large Conference Room
Contact: Monique Helfrich, mhelfrich@gmu.edu
April 21
SPP Master's Programs Open House
6:30pm
Arlington Campus
Original Building, Room 329
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