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• CANCELLED - Ukraine’s Civil Society and Its Continuing Struggle for Democracy

  • When
    Tuesday, April 21, 2020
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    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St

  This event has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.

  This event is co-sponsored by the UW International Division

  Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity is widely known for producing a major political shakeup in 2014 that disrupted corrupt political networks, triggered Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, and sparked a conflict with Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas.  Meanwhile, new generations of Ukrainians have formed increasingly powerful civil society organizations tasked with holding their government accountable. Heavily dependent on both the financial and diplomatic assistance of their international partners (especially the United States), civil society actors face a number of obstacles in their fight for democracy.  

  Christopher D. Russell is a Strategic Policy Analyst at the Enhance Non-governmental Actors and Grassroots Engagement (USAID/ENGAGE) activity in Kyiv, Ukraine. He is a former Title VIII Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute and a Fulbright Public Policy Fellow in Ukraine.  He received a Juris Doctorate and Masters of International Public Affairs in 2016  from the UW Law School and the La Follette School of Public Affairs, respectively.

  
  

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• CANCELLED - The Kurds: Must Stateless Mean Friendless?

  • When
    Thursday, May 21, 2020
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    The Madison Club, 5 E Wilson St

  This event has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.

  The Kurdish people are found spread across a region in west-central Asia covering portions of southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.  In recent years Kurdish fighters participated in the U.S. effort to defeat ISIS in the region.  However, in October, 2019, when the Trump Administration decided to reduce U.S. troops in Syria, Turkey was emboldened to move against the Kurds in eastern Turkey. These events have left the Kurds feeling abandoned and in need of more durable alliances. The program will help us understand the Kurds, why they are stateless, and what is their importance to the U.S.
  
  Professor Romano holds the Thomas G. Strong Chair in Middle East Politics at Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and his M.A. and B.A. from McGill University. In 1997-98 Dr. Romano was a visiting doctoral student at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. From 2003 to 2005 he held post-doctoral fellowships with the Canadian Department of National Defence, during which time he lived in Iraq and conducted research there.  He has authored a book on the Kurds and numerous journal articles.  He writes a weekly column for Rudaw, an Iraqi Kurdish newspaper.
  
  

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