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Scholars’ Circle – Book Author Interview – Exit...

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2024/05/05

Beyond asylum seekers heading north, the problems of US/Mexico Border are also about the flow of guns and drugs. How can we understand the totality of problems related to the US southern border? What are the solutions? We speak with Ieva Jusionyte the author of a new book Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border. [ dur: 58mins. ] Ieva Jusionyte is a legal and medical anthropologist and associate professor at Brown University. She is also the author of award-winning

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Scholars’ Circle – Origins of War and Resolving...

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2024/04/28

With wars still raging in Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine, we return to an earlier interview on the origins of war. When and how did war begin?While some have argued it evolved in early human behavior within forging bands societies, our guests say, that's not true. Forger bands did not wage war. [ dur: 30mins. ] Douglas P. Fry is Professor and Chair of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of Beyond War, The Human Potential for

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Scholars’ Circle – Determining genocide and other...

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2024/04/22

April is Genocide Awareness month. Two of the worst genocides in history, the Hutu killing of Tutsis in Rwanda and the Ottoman genocide against Armenians, began in April. We explore genocide with two specific questions: Who internationally makes a determination that violence and atrocities are in fact genocide? And what if anything changes when there is a finding that atrocities are genocide? We explore whether a legal approach is the best way to determine whether political violence and atrocities

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Scholars’ Circle – The Suffragist Peace: How Women...

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2024/04/14

The expansion of the vote to women throughout the 20th Century has had an impact on the discourses and politics of war and peace. What is the relationship between women voting, electing women leaders, and women-lead groups in civil society on the issue of war and peace? Does the expansion of the vote to women lead to the election of women as leaders? And are these leaders more committed to peace than their male counterparts? We explore a new book, The Suffragist Peace: How Women Shape the Politics

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Scholars’ Circle – Urban Flooding its causes and...

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2024/04/08

We look at how to sustainably mitigate urban flooding in the mist of climate crisis.Altering how we think of hardscape in urban design to manage water drainage. [ dur: 30mins. ] Gary Brierley is Professor of Environment at University of Auckland, NZ. He is the author of River restoration as a sociocultural process: A case study from the Waimatā Catchment, Aotearoa New Zealand and Truths of the Riverscape: Moving beyond command-and-control to geomorphologically informed nature-based river

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Scholars’ Circle – Title IX history and compliance...

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2024/03/31

Title IX, the landmark legislation on women’s equality in higher education, was passed to equalize funding between men’s and women’s athletics. What has it achieved? Where does it fall short?When some schools failed to implement Title IX for athletics, activists sued. We look at the landmark cases and what they have achieved. [ dur: 58mins. ] Lisa S. Kaplowitz is Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Finance and Economics department at Rutgers Business School. She is co-founder

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Scholars’ Circle – The dangerous political rhetoric...

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2024/03/23

Donald Trump's political rhetoric is becoming more apocalyptic, more dehumanizing, and more violent. What does this mean for the future of American politics and its institutions? Will Trump-ism die with Donald Trump or will it survive after he passes on? [ dur: 58mins. ]David Livingstone Smith is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of New England. He is the author of Less Than Human: Why we Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others, The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of

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Scholars’ Circle – Book Author interview:...

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2024/03/16

What is reputational security for states? And what exactly do officials do to protect states' reputations? How has social media and other communication technologies affected states and efforts to protect their reputations? This discussion is centered around Nickolas J. Cull's book Reputational Security: Refocusing Public Diplomacy for a Dangerous World. [ dur: 58mins. ]Nicholas J. Cull is Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism at USC. He is the author

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Scholars’ Circle – SCOTUS overturns Colorado State...

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2024/03/10

The US Supreme Court overturned Colorado’s State Supreme Court decision to remove Donald Trump from its ballot based on the 14th Amendment’s prohibition on insurrectionists holding office. What might this signal about the court and its role in the 2024 election and in electoral politics more generally? Polls suggest that voters want to know if Donald Trump is a criminal before voting in November. But the Supreme Court’s decisions make it less likely that this occurs before the election. What does

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Scholars’ Circle – Death of Navalny and other...

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2024/03/03

What does the death of Russia's high profile dissident, Alexi Navalny, mean for the future of the country? Who was Alexi Navalny and what exactly did he stand for? Navalny was not the only political dissident in Russia. Who else is resisting the government and what are their causes?And what does Alexei Navalny's death portend for Russian leader, Vladimir Putin? Does it suggest he's a strongman or that he is, instead, weaker than he appears? [ dur:58mins ] Steve Swerdlow, esq. is Associate

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Scholars’ Circle – Efforts towards making sustainable...

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2024/02/25

We look into making sustainable cities. How does city planning, zoning, housing, transportation, greening, climate justice and civic participation affect outcomes in creating sustainable cities. [ dur: 32mins. ]Stephen M. Wheeler (Steve) is Professor in the Landscape Architecture Program of the Department of Human Ecology at U.C. Davis. He is the co-author of Re-imagining Sustainable Cities: Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Ecological Communities (with Christina D. Rosan) and author of Climate

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Scholars’ Circle – 14th Amendment of the US...

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2024/02/18

Colorado disqualified former president Donald Trump from running on its ballot for President, arguing he violated the 14th Amendment's prohibition on insurrectionists from holding public office. What do history and law say about this amendment and its purpose? What would so-called originalism mean as applied to the case? [ dur: 58mins. ] John R. Vile is Dean and Professor of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University. He is the author of, The Writing and Ratification of the U.S

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Scholars’ Circle – Corporations not willing to taking...

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2024/02/11

Climate Change is an existential threat that demands bold action and a transformation of how humanity uses its resources. Concepts like "net zero" and "carbon offset" have done little toward decreasing the amount of greenhouse gases we emit into the atmosphere. Is the current legal and voluntary structure adequate to meet the challenge of climate change? Are we up to the challenge? [ dur: 58mins. ] William Moomaw is Emeritus Professor of international environmental policy and founding director of

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Scholars’ Circle – Somaliland and Ethiopia relations...

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2024/02/04

Ethiopia is the first nation to recognize a breakaway region of Somalia called Somaliland since its declaration of independence 33 years ago. Why did Ethiopia recognize it and what does it mean for peace in the region. Markus Virgil Hoehne is a lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. He is the author of Between Somaliland and Puntland: Marginalization, Militarization and Conflicting Political Visions and is co-editor of Borders and Borderlands as Resources

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Scholars’ Circle – Guatemala election and ...

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2024/01/28

In the summer of 2023, Guatemala elected as President an outsider with a famous last name—Bernardo Arevalo. But his political opponents used ever level of law they could to try to deny his Inauguration. Why was he victorious and what does his election mean for the future of democracy in the Central American nation? [ dur: 28mins. ] Professor Luis Fernando Mack is a Guatemalan independent political analyst and political science professor at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. He is the author

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Scholars’ Circle – International Laws on occupation...

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2024/01/21

What responsibilities do occupiers have in their occupation of territories? And is there a legal requirement to eventually end the occupation? [ dur: 28mins. ] Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of numerous publications including Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism, Western Sahara: War, Nationalism and Conflict Irresolution co-authored with Jacob Mundy. John B. Quigly is a Professor of Law Emeritus at Ohio

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