PARTICIPATE IN ORGANIZING
WESLEYAN’S FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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SEMESTER SPRING OF 2015
FRIDAY, OCT 4th,
USDAN 114 (ULLIAN MEETING ROOM)
4:30 pm
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CNN is reporting that at least 1 American was among the wounded and that Americans are alleged to be among the attackers.
Before its Twitter account was suspended, Al-Shabaab issued a list of nine names it said were among the attackers. It said three were from the United States, two from Somalia and one each from Canada, Finland, Kenya and the United Kingdom.
A senior State Department official said that the United States was trying to determine whether any of the attackers are American. While they were still working to verify the claims, authorities said they were becoming more confident that American citizens may be involved.
via More gunfire after Kenyan forces assault Nairobi’s Westgate mall – CNN.com.
For now, this link is streaming live coverage of the sad events in Kenya that are still unfolding.
An op-ed from a good friend and colleague. As the quote below suggests, our reaction to the Benghazi attacks has had some unfortunate consequences.
The Road from Benghazi by Mieczysław Boduszyński – Project Syndicate.
After the Benghazi attacks, I grieved not only for my fallen colleagues, but also for the loss of the chance to deepen a relationship that had, in Qaddafi’s final years, consisted mainly of counterterrorism efforts, limited commercial relations, and historical issues, such as the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. Stevens, who championed a more comprehensive approach, would have been devastated to witness the fortress that the US embassy became after his death.
Not sure about the accurateness of this, but Africa and Asia do not seem particularly happy…
The Happiest — And Most Miserable — Places In The Whole World In One Map – Business Insider.
This is for Wesleyan Students:
I am looking for an intern do work with me this year on a research project, “Participation in Global Governance”. This intern would continue the work done by my previous intern in terms of data entry and data analysis.
Responsibilities:
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
If you are interested, please email Professor Nelson (mbnelson-at-wesleyan.edu)
“The Watering Hole” is the new blog from Maji Safi Group, an organization founded by Wesleyan Alum Max Perel-Slater.
Former student is a finalist for this fellowship. He has a great project going on in Tanzania that a number of our former students have now been involved in. If you click on the link and “like”, “comment”, or “tweet” it you may help him win the social media element of the competition.
Advancing Leaders Fellowship Finalist: Max Perel-Slater.
And here is a link to the website for the organization he established, the Maji Safi Group.
From Foreign Policy:
Mapped: The U.S. military’s presence in Africa | Killer Apps.
View U.S. military presence in Africa in a larger map
This seems to mirror my experience:
The less you know | War of Ideas.
People who hold extreme views on complex policy issues tend not to have thought all that hard about the ramifications of those policies. That’s the argument behind a recent paper published in Psychological Science by Philip Fernbach of the London School of Business, Todd Rogers of Harvard’s Kennedy School, Craig Fox of UCLA, and Steven Sloman of Brown.
Mike Nelson 