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The Balsillie School community extends warm congratulations to Isabella Sellar Voll, who successfully defended her dissertation, “Beyond the Event: Challenging the Hegemonic Account of Genocide” on June 18, 2025. We extend thanks to Isabella’s supervisor, Dr. Sara Matthews, committee members Dr. Jasmin Habib and Dr. Adam Jones, internal/external examiner Dr. Karen Stote, and external examiner
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MAGG ’15
Current Position: Programme Coordinator Humanitarian Action and Resilience, UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
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We are pleased to announce that the Technology Governance Summer School has received the 2025 APSIA Innovation Award for Professional Development Programming. This prestigious award recognizes innovative initiatives that have supported the professional development of graduate students in international affairs over the past year. The BSIA Summer School offers a unique interdisciplinary approach to the
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The Balsillie School community extends warm congratulations to Naireen Khan, who successfully defended her dissertation, “Palestine in Westphalian Worldmaking: The Production of the Opt as a Place Through International Humanitarian-Developmental Governance” on May 26, 2025. We extend thanks to Naireen’s supervisor, Dr. Sara Matthews, committee members Dr. Timothy Donais and Dr. Jasmin Habib, internal/external examiner
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Photo credit: Christy Lorenz By Christy Lorenz, MIPP Working as a Programme Assistant in Resilience and Climate Change (RCC) for UNDP Pacific has been the culmination of many years of study and sacrifice, working hard to achieve good grades, to get into a good school with a good scholarship, to get better grades, to get
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Photo credit: Christy Lorenz By Christy Lorenz, MIPP When I first received the news that I would be moving to Fiji to work as a Resilience and Climate Change (RCC) Programme Assistant for UNDP Pacific, my mind went wild with possibilities. Freshly equipped with a Master of International Public Policy degree and brimming with ideas,
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Photo credit: Christy Lorenz By Christy Lorenz, MIPP Bula vinaka to family, friends, colleagues, and readers near and far! I’m writing to you from Suva, Fiji, where I work as a Programme Assistant with the Resilience and Climate Change (RCC) team at the United Nations Development Programme’s Pacific Office. As a recent Master of International
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Notice of Dissertation Defence: Naireen Khan May 26, 2025 Abstract This multiple manuscript dissertation examines the international governance of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)—a non-sovereign territory— undertaken by an assemblage of actors doing both humanitarian and development work. The study puts forward the theoretical and methodological framework of place-making to analyze the effects of the
Top: Workshop participants at the BSIA in Waterloo, Canada. Bottom: Workshop participants at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) in Karlsruhe, Germany. By Nathalie Gatti and Ian Rowlands On 16 April 2025, academic researchers based at institutions in Canada and Germany connected for a half-day hybrid workshop. With groups of approximately 20
MIPP ’21
Current Position: Policy Analyst, Fuels Sector, Natural Resources Canada
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The Balsillie School was pleased to host the second annual Technology Governance Policy Challenge on April 14th and 15th. The Challenge is a flagship, interdisciplinary student competition that brings together current and aspiring professionals working at the intersection of emerging technology and international affairs. The theme this year was “Emerging Technology for Safe, Orderly and
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