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 The Ford Institute for Human Security is pleased to announce the publishing of the first policy brief in a series on the effectiveness of peacekeepers in protecting displaced persons and refugees, entitled Does Deployment Matter? Examining the Conditions under which Peacekeeping Missions Effectively Protect Displaced Persons and Refugees. This report reflects findings drawn from the third phase of an expansive, continued study, funded by the United States Institute of Peace.Click here to review the full report.  The Ford Institute for Human Security is pleased to welcome Taylor B. Seybolt, professor of human security, to the University of Pittsburgh. Seybolt recently joined the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs as an Assistant Professor. His research interests include humanitarian intervention, the responsibility to protect civilians from violence, and network analysis of organizational coordination. He teaches courses on human security, ethnic conflict, and conflict resolution. more »
 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. Paul Nelson, Associate Professor of International Development, has been awarded $275,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation. The grant will fund a three-year project, "Religious Institutions and Voices in International Development," and project activities include two research projects on the roles of religion and of religious and faith-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in shaping development and human rights policy, and editing a book on religion and development. more »  * We extend our sincere thanks to the Pitt Magazine for allowing us to post this link. 
The two-day workshop was the fourth in a series organized by the Ford Institute for Human Security in conjunction with Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po, Paris). Planning for the workshop also involved special collaboration by LOCALMULTIDEM (Multicultural Democracy and Immigrants Social Capital in Europe: Participation, Organizational Networks, and Public Policies at the Local Level), a research network funded by the EUROPEAN COMMISSION under Framework Programme 6. more »
On June 4, Professor Simon Reich, director of the Ford Institute for Human Security, delivered a presentation to State Department officials from two bureaus: The 'Population, Refugees and Migration' bureau and the 'Democracy, Rights and Labor' bureau. This briefing was based upon findings of an expansive, continued study on What Makes a Camp Safe? The Protection of Children from Abduction in Internally Displaced Persons and Refugee Camps. 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.
By Ford Institute Summer Intern Alexandra Taylor
For the past decade, a period spanning two official wars, the only constant division in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been between those who have guns and those who do not. The internationally recognized conflict in the DRC began in 1997. more »
By Student Research Associate Chris Farnsworth and Ford Institute Intern Megan Carniewski
Following decades of war, violence, and drought, Afghanistan remains one of the most ravaged and fragile countries in the world. The constant turmoil has damaged the country’s infrastructure, halted economic development, and forced millions of Afghans to leave their homes thus becoming refugees in other countries, or internally displaced persons (IDPs) within Afghanistan. more »
By Ford Institute Intern, Joumana King
In July of 2008, the UN Security Council met with participants representing nearly 60 nations to reiterate the need for States to abide by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols. This convention most notably condemns the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict among State and non-State actors. more »
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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On June 6, The Ford Institute for Human Security welcomed Professor Michael Minkenberg for a discussion on the interaction between religion and radical right-wing politics in western societies. 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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5/12/2008
The balance between enhancing a country’s security and protecting the civil liberties of its residents is a tension in the field of immigration and immigrant policy in the post-9/11 world. The Ford Institute for Human Security is embarking on the third stage of a project on “immigration, integration, and security, post 9/11” with the Center for Political Research, based in Paris. more » 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 »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 »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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