Policy Outreach

We promote policy outreach

• by partnering with Columbia University’s Council for European Studies (CES), which produces and supports multi-disciplinary research on Europe through fellowships, grants, publications, awards, conferences and meetings, public lectures and symposia, as well as direct research and artistic collaborations. We are currently preparing a Special Edition on “Forced Migration, Cultural Identity, and Trauma” for the online publication EuropeNow, CES’s global media platform, in February 2017. EuropeNow has a current monthly readership of 50,000 +, bridging a gap between traditional academic publications and blogs by addressing timely issues via thoughtful scholarly commentary, making scientific research accessible for a global audience. Also with CES, we will hold a panel on “The refugee experience in Europe” at their renowned annual International Conference of Europeanists (University of Glasgow, July 12-14, 2017), a prestigious interdisciplinary event for academics, researchers, and policy specialists focusing on Europe.

• by partnering with The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, with a mission to “advance science and serve society” through initiatives focused on policy, education, scientific responsibility, public engagement, and international collaboration. For researchers participating in our Center, AAAS will offer a course similar to the annual AAAS Science & Technology Policy Leadership Seminar, a 4 ½ day policy “crash course” in advocacy for science-based issues underlying policy decisions, including how to select points of intervention for maximum impact with policy makers and how to be more effective in interacting with decision makers. Research findings generated by our Center will be presented at the AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy, an annual conference in Washington, DC, and a briefing before Congressional members and their staff through the AAAS program, ‘Science on the Hill’. In addition, the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program will convene a meeting of investigators and human rights and humanitarian response experts to provide an opportunity for the thematic experts to provide input on research questions, and advise on policy interventions. The group will later reconvene to discuss research results and recommendations for next steps in the policy arena and the provision of humanitarian and social services to refugees.