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The Daily Reports on Stedman Foreign Policy Talk
The Daily Northwestern discusses the recent Buffett Center talk: American Foreign Policy and the Challenges of the 21st Century

The Daily Reports on Esfandiari Iran/Human Rights Talk
The Daily Northwestern covers the recent Buffett Center talk: My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran

Richard Joseph Op-Ed: Tackling HIV/AIDS in Africa
Faculty affiliate and REACH principal investigator Richard Joseph discusses recent advances and challanges in tackling AIDS and its consequences in Africa.

Stephen Kinzer Op-Ed: A New Role for Turkey
Faculty affiliate Stephen Kinzer argues in The Boston Globe that the recent diplomatic breakthrough with Armenia is a first step in Turkey becoming a leader of the the Islamic world.

Ambassador Richard S. Williamson Congressional Testimony on Sudan
Williamson, Buffett Visiting Professor, testified before Congress' African Subcommittee on the shifting situation in Southern Sudan.

Ambassador Richard S. Williamson Op-Ed: One Afghan, One Vote
Williamson, Buffett Visiting Professor, argues in The Weekly Standard that the United States ignores election fraud in Afghanistan at its own peril.

Ambassador Richard S. Williamson Article: Afghanistan’s Historic Election
Williamson, Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor in International Studies, led the International Republican Institute’s (IRI) election observer mission in Afghanistan.

Roger Cohen and Haleh Esfandiari to Discuss Recent Upheaval in Iran
The Buffett Center is bringing two eminent speakers to Northwestern this fall to provide perspective on the recent election and subsequent civil unrest in Iran.

The Buffett Center and the Center for Global Engagement welcome home the 44 participants of this year’s Global Engagement Summer Institute (GESI).
GESI participants were placed in teams of three to five students at ten NGOs in India, Uganda and Argentina to implement community development projects.

Stephen Kinzer Op-Ed: Democracy, made in Iran
Faculty affiliate Stephen Kinzer argues in The Guardian that by using images of Muhammad Mossadeq Iran's protesters are signalling they want to win reform without US intervention.

Brian Hanson Awarded Community Building Award
Brian Hanson, Associate Director of the Buffett Center, has been awarded the Community Building Award in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

Stephen Kinzer Op-Ed: Iran is the key
Faculty affiliate Stephen Kinzer argues in The Guardian that the United States cannot afford a conventional thinker as special envoy to Iran.

The Daily Reports on Buffett Sex Trafficking Talk
The Daily Northwestern covers the highly successful Buffett Center Talk: Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

2009 Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Research Grant Competition For Northwestern Faculty, Graduate & Undergraduate Students Opens
Grants will fund individual and group projects on Modern Turkey in all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences.

FIG and EHESS Win Grant in African Studies
The partnership will send Northwestern PhD students to Paris, to Marseilles, and to EHESS’s partner universities in Africa and will bring EHESS students to Northwestern.

NU GO Website Will Profile International Programs
The Buffett Center is building a comprehensive profile of international programs at Northwestern: the Northwestern University Global Opportunities (NU GO) website.

Northwestern and Brazil’s Fundação Getúlio Vargas Begin Multifaceted Collaboration
The Fundação Getúlio Vargas is home to Brazil’s premier business, social science, and law programs, as well as the country’s most important 20th-century political archives.

Stephen Kinzer OP-ED: The reality of war in Afghanistan
Faculty affiliate Stephen Kinzer argues that McCain and Obama are both wrong about Afghanistan.

Brian Edwards Receives Mellon New Directions Fellowship
Edwards, English and Comparative Literary Studies, received a 2008 New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Welcome from the New Director
Hendrik Spruyt, Political Science, is the new Director of the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies.

Global Health Working Group Launches
Michael Radnor and Jeffrey Strauss have formed new Buffett Center working group on Global Health.

PAS Celebrates 60th Anniversary
The Program of African Studies begins a year-long celebration of six decades as one of the world’s foremost centers for African studies.

Andrew Wachtel Steps Down as Buffett Center Director
Wachtel completed five-year term as director.

Professor Muhammad Sani Umar Named Carnegie Scholar
Umar, Religion and African Studies, has been named one of 20 Carnegie Scholars for 2008.