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Event February 17, 2016

On the Front Lines of Environmental Justice

Open Society Fellow Chitrangada Choudhury and ActionAid USA senior policy analyst Brandon Wu locate demands for environmental justice on the international policy agenda and within the realities of rural India.

Event February 9, 2016

Drug Crop Production, Poverty, and Development

An international panel of researchers and growers from Colombia, Morocco, Peru, and the United States discuss the role of drug crop production in poverty and development.

Event February 8, 2016

With Targets on Their Backs: Providing Health Care in Conflicts Without Rules

An expert panel explores how violations of medical neutrality are used as weapons of war—and the impact this has on humanitarian organizations offering aid.

Event February 4, 2016

Examining Binaries: The Private Sector and the State in Development Processes

Two Open Society Fellows discuss public–private partnerships in education and natural resource exploitation in India.

Event February 1, 2016

Fifteen Years of Fighting Terror: Lessons for the 2016 U.S. Presidential Candidates

An expert panel discusses alternative approaches to combating terrorism—including less reliance on the military, a tougher line on bad governance, and closer work with civil society.

Event January 19, 2016

Justice Behind Bars: The Persecution of Civil Society in Azerbaijan

This discussion will feature a presentation of a new report that highlights the abuse of the criminal justice system during the current, unprecedented civil society crackdown in Azerbaijan.

Event January 14, 2016

Association Commitments: What Progress in Reforms in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine

During this conference, several stakeholders will assess the progress made by Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine in the implementation of political reform commitments under their EU Association Agreements.

Event January 13, 2016

Film Screening and Q&A: Beasts of No Nation

Beasts of No Nation—adapted from Uzodinma Iweala’s novel—depicts the brutalities experienced by child soldiers. The event is linked to an Open Society publication about the impact of conflict on children’s education.

Event January 13, 2016

Talking Nonsense (and Benefiting from It): A Conversation with Jamie Holmes

Jamie Holmes discusses his book, Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing, on navigating the increasingly ambiguous and uncertain modern world.

Event January 7, 2016

City of Thorns: A Conversation with Ben Rawlence (Washington, D.C.)

Human rights activist and writer Ben Rawlence speaks about his new book, City of Thorns, which deals with daily life and the struggle for survival in the world’s largest refugee camp.

Event January 6, 2016

City of Thorns: A Conversation with Ben Rawlence (New York)

Human rights activist and writer Ben Rawlence speaks about his new book, City of Thorns, which deals with daily life and the struggle for survival in the world’s largest refugee camp.

Event December 9, 2015

The Impact of Drug Policy on the Environment

Leading up to the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session on drugs, a panel of researchers looks at how drug control policies perversely harm the natural environment.

Event December 2, 2015

Policing and Public Health: Advancing Harm Reduction Strategies in Law Enforcement Practices

This event brings together experiences of researchers, harm reduction advocates, and law enforcement to describe how to protect the rights and health of the most vulnerable members of society.

Event November 30, 2015

Ukraine’s Other Front: State of Play and Prospects on Reforms

Ukrainian and EU-based experts will bring insights from the country, as well as an international dimension, to the discussion on the state of implementation of reforms in Ukraine.

Event November 12, 2015

Race and Justice in America: An Atlantic Summit

Join Atlantic Live for a discussion of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Atlantic cover story “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” the complicated history of the nation’s justice system, and the future of prison reform.

Event November 11, 2015

Film Screening and Discussion: The State of Madness

Lo Stato della Follia (The State of Madness) is a documentary that exposes life within “criminal asylums” in Italy and the deprivation of basic rights for people with mental illness.

Event November 5, 2015

Film Screening and Discussion: The Desert of Forbidden Art

The incredible story of how a treasure trove of banned Soviet art worth millions of dollars is stashed in a far-off desert of Uzbekistan develops into a larger exploration of how art survives in times of oppression.

Event May 26, 2016

Exporting Repression: The Spread of Human Rights Violations in the Former Soviet Union and How Institutions Respond

Experts examine the role the EU can play in responding to the development of repressive laws and practices across the former Soviet Union.