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This concentration is designed for students who wish to develop a professional or academic interest in the global challenges of development, inequality, and poverty. The concentration focuses on concepts, measurement tools, and policy alternatives. The course offerings, the research of associated faculty, and the work of students reflect a number of core motivations. We share a commitment to development as a process that is fundamentally about improving human well-being and securing greater social justice. We believe that the challenges of economic growth, social development, political freedoms, cultural diversity, and security are interrelated and that the analysis of development requires an interdisciplinary approach. Courses address issues such as economic globalization, human rights and development ethics, gender, sustainability, human security, and social policy.

GPIA Alumna Ashlee Tuttleman Designs Social Impact Programs Increasing Profits for Rwandan Coffee Farmers

Ashlee_Tuttleman Ashlee Tuttleman is a 2012 graduate of the M.A program in International Affairs at The New School. She has extensive experience in East Africa working in product and program development, supply chains and human-centered design. Prior to Milano, Ashlee worked in the private sector for eight years in organizational change management, project management and marketing.  Most recently, Ashlee became the Social Enterprise Project Manager at Sustainable Harvest Rwanda, where she designs and implements social impact programs that improve information exchange among coffee origins and along the coffee supply chain. Programs she designs reinvest premiums earned through coffee processing back to the farmers.

 

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Faculty Sakiko Fukuda-Parr on Human Rights and Global Inequality at the UN

sakiko_fukudaProfessor Fukuda-Parr was one of the speakers at the Parliamentary Hearing at the United Nations –  Ensuring a people-centered approach to the SDGs: a shared responsibility - organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and held in ECOSOC chambers on November 19-20. 

Drawing from recent research on global goals, she urged Parliamentarians to support the goal to reduce inequality as a top international priority. Removing inequality and discrimination is not only a valuable end in itself and a human right but can help promote economic growth and human development.  

Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr also recently gave the annual Boving lecture at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, established to promote debate on urgent global challenges of poverty, inequality and development. The topic of the lecture was Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights.  Drawing on her forthcoming book by the same title, she asked ‘what would we learn if we turned the question around, and instead of measuring the progress of nations by the production of commodities but by how well they are using those resources to improve the human condition’.  Analysis using a new measurement tool, the SERF index, shows progress in state performance over the last decades but serious underperformance.  The failure to realize social and economic rights is not due to lack of income but to inadequate social institutions. 

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International Affairs Alumna Mala Kumar Publishes Op-ed in The Advocate: “Why I Quit My Job at the United Nations”

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Mala Kumar is a 2010 M.A. International Affairs graduate. She recently finished a UNICEF project manager job in Burundi. Click here to read the full op-ed.

 

 

 

 

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Student Ejolee Mitchell Researches National Youth Policies During Turkey IFP

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Ejolee Mitchell is originally from Philadelphia and is currently a student in the Graduate Program in International Affairs. Before coming to The New School she interned with a non-profit in Philadelphia focusing on international development via women’s empowerment. During the summer of 2014 she participated in the Turkey IFP program where she interned with Toplum Gönüllüleri Vakfı also known as TOG, a civil society organization focused on youth improvement and personal development of young people via community involvement.

 

 

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Alumna Mala Kumar Launches Book: “The Paths of Marriage”

Mala KumarMala Kumar is a 2010 M.A. international affairs graduate, concentrating in development. During her time at The New School, she co-founded the student organization, Association for International Development [AID], and was an India China Institute student fellow. After graduating, she worked as a Programme Officer on the African Risk Capacity of the UN World Food Programme. Mala’s first book, The Paths of Marriage, is scheduled to be released on 1 October 2014. The novel is about three generations of women from 1950s India to present-day NYC, and their battles of discrimination from the outside world and from each other.

 

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