ISID's Global Governance Lab releases a new policy brief on natural disasters and transitional justice.
ISID is please to share the latest policy brief from its Global Governance Lab, written by Professor Megan Bradley.
Funded Summer Research Opportunities for Graduate Students Interested in Refugee Issues
FUNDED SUMMER RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS INTERESTED IN REFUGEE ISSUES
Are you a graduate student at Carleton, McGill University, University of Ottawa or York University?
Are you interested in refugee issues?
Are you looking for a unique research placement for the Summer of 2019?
From McGill to Parliament Hill
Arts Life Magazine meets the Honourable Karina Gould, a former Latin American and Caribbean Studies Student of ISID!
Scaling Up Energy Efficiency in Emerging Markets: Global Experiences, Challenges, and Opportunities
ISID has released a new policy brief on energy efficiency in emerging markets, by ISID Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir and Khaled Agha. Read about it here!
Release of "Unpacking Participatory Democracy: from theory to practice and from practice to theory. A report on two workshops"
Ms Aruna Roy, noted Indian social activist, was invited to be Professor of Practice in Global Governance in residence at the Institute for the Study of International Development in Fall 2016. One of her tasks was to teach a 500-level seminar course.
The Effect of the Italian Support System for Refugees and Asylum Seekers on the Local Economy
ISID has published a new policy brief on "The Effect of the Italian Support System for Refugees and Asylum Seekers on the Local Economy", by Claire Paoli, Angelo Martelli and ISID's Francesco Amodio. Read about it here!
Professor Kazue Takamura earns the Arts Undergraduate Society Teaching Excellence Award!
ISID Faculty Lecturer has just won the Arts Undergraduate Society Teaching Excellence Award! Each year, the AUS recognizes outstanding teaching staff in the Faculty of Arts through its Teaching Excellence Award. Nominations for the award come out of the student body.
Read about it here! https://www.facebook.com/ausmcgill/
Women's NGOs are Changing the World - and Not Getting Credit for it. Op-Ed in the Calgary Herald.
Op-Ed co-written by Dr Kate Grantham, Research Associate, Institute for the Study of International Development
“Collaborating with academics and other development professionals to publish and disseminate findings from such projects will also strengthen and validate NGO efforts. This article is one small contribution toward ensuring women’s NGOs get the credit and support they so richly deserve.”
ISID releases a new policy brief on migrant rights in Japan
ISID releases a new policy brief by Professors Erik Kuhonta and Kazue Takamura, "Human Rights of Non-Status Migrants in Japan". Read the full brief online.
The McGill Daily reports on ISID's Rohingya Roundtable
The McGill Daily gave extensive coverage to the recent roundtable on ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. Read the full article here.
ISID releases a new policy brief: Trade restrictions lead to lower wages and more violence
To address security concerns, governments often implement trade barriers and restrictions on the movement of goods and people. A new study from the Occupied Palestinian Territories documents the negative effects of these trade restrictions on the target economy, and their implications for political violence. Amodio, Baccini and Di Maio (2017) show that the import restrictions imposed by Israel on the West Bank
ISID releases a new policy brief on deforestation in South America
ISID is pleased to announce the release of a policy brief entitled "To eliminate deforestation in South America, reduce differences in regulations across regions and actors". This brief was authored by R.D. Garrett, E.F. Lambin, and Y. le Polain de Waroux.
Professor Yann le Polain de Waroux joins the Institute
The Institute for the Study of International Development is pleased to announce the arrival on August 1st of Professor Yann le Polain de Waroux, jointly hired with the Department of Geography. Professor le Polain de Waroux has a doctorate from the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and most recently held a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. His research examines the role of people’s livelihood and land use choices as a nexus between social and environmental, a
