The BSIA warmly congratulates PhD candidate Jeremy Wagner and recent MIPP graduate Zack Ahmed for their submission, “Inside the System, Outside the Law: The Informal Food Economy in Nairobi, Kenya”, which has earned them a place in the National Finals of the 2022 Map the System Canada competition, representing Wilfrid Laurier University. They are among […]
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Photo credit: United Nations By Andrew Horne, MIPP As I am currently interning with UN-Habitat, my blog for this month will focus on how UN-Habitat addresses the concerns of global youth in an increasingly young world. In the last several decades, there has been an explosion in the global population of youth, with these changing
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The Balsillie School of International Affairs is delighted to be providing the coaching for the winners of the 2022 International Ideas Policy Challenge (IPIC) program, a Global Affairs Canada (GAC) initiative run in collaboration with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The objective of the IPIC program is to draw on the intellectual talent of Canadian graduate students,
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Photo credit: Eurasia Review By: Ashley Mungai, MAGG I’m constantly in shock that it has barely been two months since the crisis in Ukraine began, yet the impacts of this crisis have devastated the lives of millions of Ukrainians and will echo for decades to come. Working virtually for IOM Ukraine, I receive daily reports
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Photo credit: Engin_Akyurt/Pixabay By: Haily Eggleston, MIPP Interning at IOM Ukraine during the war has provided me with insight into how much work goes into humanitarian relief, particularly in times of crisis. During times like these, we all hear about the extraordinary acts of bravery that happen, but there are so many more things that
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Photo credit: IOM By Ashley Mungai, MAGG student It has been nearly a month since the war broke out and the Ukrainian crisis began. Unfortunately, the reality on the ground keeps getting worse and worse. Our situation reports suggest that at least 12 million people are in need within Ukraine, and as of 16 March,
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Photo credit: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko By Ashley Mungai, MAGG I always knew that an internship in the UN system would change my life. However, I had no idea just how much of an understatement this would be. My name is Ashley Mungai, and I am currently finishing up my MAGG program. I am an international student
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Photo credit: ELG21/Pixabay By Haily Eggleston, MIPP When the Russian Federation launched a broad military offensive against Ukraine, I honestly thought that was the end of my internship. Up until that point, I had been working on interview questions for other units as part of a mapping exercise of private sector and civil society partners
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Photo credit: UNDP Viet Nam By Joanna Hausen, MIPP When I was first introduced to the portfolio of activities for the GCF funded Coastal Resilience Project in Viet Nam, I was excited to see how it all weaved together. Although I am focused mostly on the component of the project that is concerned with compiling disaster
Photo credit: Merran Eby By Kestrel DeMarco, MAGG One of the first things people ask me when I tell them about my internship with UNDP is whether I’ll be able to go to Viet Nam. Unfortunately, because of COVID, what would have been a six-month internship based out of Viet Nam has been a six-month
Photo credit: Sorn Seang Heng/flickr By Misha Goforth, MIPP I’ve been working with UNDP Cambodia for about 3 months now and it’s hard to believe I am halfway through my posting already. So, as I write my final blog for the dispatch series, I want to talk a bit more broadly about development work and
The Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) is pleased to announce the release of Aftershocks: 2022 Global Trends Report, an anthology of policy briefs prepared by masters students for Global Affairs Canada. “If 2020 was defined by the large earthquake that was the Covid-19 pandemic, then 2021, metaphorically speaking, consisted of a series of smaller
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