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 The Ford Institute for Human Security is pleased to announce the publishing of a final report on What Makes a Camp Safe: The Protection of Children from Abduction in Internally Displaced Persons and Refugee Camps. This report reflects findings drawn from the second phase of an expansive, continued study, funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Government of Canada. Click here to review full report. The second phase of an expansive, continued study on “What Makes a Camp Safe” recently came to fruition with the publishing of a final report. Based on the findings of the study, Professor Simon Reich, Director of the Ford Institute for Human Security, presented the published report along with policy recommendations on April 23 in Washington, D.C., to officials of the ENOUGH project, a joint initiative of the International Crisis Group and the Center for American Progress whose mission is to end genocide and crimes against humanity. more » |
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Security Sweep Blog
Security Sweep connects researchers affiliated with the Ridgway Center and Ford Institute with policy-makers, citizens, journalists, and scholars interested in sharing views on topics spanning the "security continuum." Visit the blog for more information.
Mine Pinar Gözen is a doctoral candidate in the School of International Studies, University of Trento, Italy. She earned her BA and MA in International Relations from Bilkent University, Turkey, where she also served as a research assistant. Her research interests include humanitarian intervention, international law of the sea, and peace operations. more »
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The Ford Institute for Human Security has several new graduate students interning this summer. Under the direction of Professor Simon Reich and group leader Penelope Bissett, the new interns will research and collect data on internal displacement, forced migration, and refugees in the regions of Africa, Sri Lanka, Angola, Afghanistan and Iraq. The five new interns are Daniel Carik (also a veteran research associate), Megan Carniewski, Joumana King, Danielle Loustau-Williams, and Corey Sczechowicz. more »
In the aftermath of four Yugoslav wars, reconstruction efforts in South Eastern Europe have devoted relatively limited attention to dimensions of human security that enhance protections for the region's most vulnerable populations. Consequently, South Eastern Europe, and especially the Western Balkan region, has emerged as a nexus point in human trafficking. more »
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Rethinking Integration: Reconciling the needs of the immigrant populations and the security of transatlantic societies. A transatlantic collaborative project underwritten by the Ford Foundation more »
On September 7 and 8, 2007, the Ford Institute hosted an international workshop on immigration and integration. It was the third workshop in a series organized by the University of Pittsburgh’s Ford Institute for Human Security in collaboration with the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) of Paris, France. more »
Click here to see video clip of address by Lt Gen Romeo Dallaire during Inauguration of the Ford Institute for Human Security, October 8, 2004.
Alec Wargo, Program Officer in the Office of the Special Representative for Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict spoke to an audience of 110 on October 31 regarding his work with child soldiers. more »
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 5/24/07
The Ford Institute is pleased to announce the publication of a new book entitled “Immigration, Integration and Security: Europe and America in Comparative Perspective”, co-edited by Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia and Simon Reich. The book was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. This volume is the fourth to be published in the book series: THE SECURITY CONTINUUM: GLOBAL POLITICS IN THE MODERN AGE. Drawing together academics and policymakers from Europe and the US this volume addresses the character and success of various immigration policies, their linkage to security policy in the aftermath of 9/11, and the ramifications for civil liberties on both continents. more »Click here to view the Table of Contents and Chapter 1. Click here for order form. 1/8/2008
Director of the Ford Institute, Professor Simon Reich, has been awarded $75,000 from the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) to continue research on an expansive internally displaced persons (IDP) and refugee camp study. more »2/10/2008
The work of the Ford Institute for Human Security was referenced by UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict (SGSR-CAAC), Radhika Coomaraswamy, during her presentation of the Secretary General's Annual Report on the floor of the Security Council, as reported by Adelia Saunders of MediaGlobal. Ms. Coomaraswamy voiced a growing concern shared by members of the UN Office of the Special Representative that IDP and refugee camps - the very places intended to protect and shelter the innocent - may in fact be a direct source for armed groups to recruit and train child soldiers. This paradox has been examined and confirmed by recent studies conducted by the Ford Institute for Human Security. For a recent interview with Ford Institute director, Simon Reich, see more »1/8/2008
Director of the Ford Institute for Human Security, Professor Simon Reich, has been awarded $85,000 by the Glyn Berry Program of Canada’s DFAIT to study what makes a camp safe and the protection of children from abduction in IDP and refugee camps. Professor Reich sought the support of the Canadian Government because of their expressed concern about the needs facing unprotected civilian populations, particularly children, consistent with norms established by the international community. more »10/4/2007
Assistant Professor Charli Carpenter of the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs has been awarded $647,000 by the National Science Foundation to study why certain human security issues get on the international agenda while others are ignored. Her project, “Issue Adoption in Human Rights Advocacy Networks” will focus on the role of transnational advocacy networks in issue creation. more »11/2/2007
Jessica comes to us from PNC Bank where she worked as a Bilingual Financial Services Consultant. She earned her BS from the University of Pittsburgh in Psychology and Spanish in 2006. more »11/2/2007
More than one half of the population of Kosovo is under the age of 25, yet, as the United Nations (UN) and other Western powers struggle to find a solution for the future of Kosovo, youth policy remains an urgent but neglected priority. more »9/12/2007
Should the DMV really be in the front lines of the war on terrorism? Prof. Elena Baylis’s most recent article, “Sending the Bureaucracy to War,” critiques the government's efforts to mobilize almost every part of the civil bureaucracy to fight terrorism, including agencies that have no obvious expertise in that task. The article, which she co-wrote with Prof. David Zaring of Wharton Business School, has been published in the most recent issue of the Iowa Law Review. more »6/11/2007
“One man’s solution: Pitt professor, Simon Reich, thinks we ought to get out of Baghdad but stay in Iraq” more »3/30/2007
Dr. Charli Carpenter, Ford Institute affiliated faculty member and Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, publishes her article “Setting the Advocacy Agenda” in the latest issue of International Studies Quarterly. more »3/19/2007
UN's Special Representative of the Secretary General on Children and Armed Conflict praised the recent work conducted by the Ford Institute on the protection of refugee and IDP camps funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Canadian Government. more »12/18/2006
Simon F. Reich, director of the Ford Institute for Human Security at the University of Pittsburgh and professor of international affairs in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, briefed the United Nations on the findings of the institute's initiative to protect children from abduction for use as soldiers. more »Get To Know Us
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