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The human rights situation in Kosovo under the United Nations Administration

Posted: Dec. 5th, 2008 | Category: Programs

Remzije Istrefi, a visiting Fulbright scholar at Duke and lecturer in the Political Science department at the University of Pristina and author focusing on human rights issues recently spoke on the issue of human rights in Kosovo, under the administration of UNMIK, the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, at an event sponsored by the Duke University Center for International Studies, Center for Slavic and (…)

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Former Scholar-at-Risk Discusses Collapse of Iraqi Higher Education

Posted: Nov. 26th, 2008 | Category: In the News

Professor Sattar Jawad, whom the Duke University Center for International Studies hosted as a scholar-at-risk from 2005 to 2007, discusses the ongoing campaign of anti-intellectual violence in Iraq and the devestating impact it is having on Iraq’s universities and the education of future generations in the current issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Now a visiting fellow at the University of (…)

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