The award recognizes contributions to environmental and public policy issues, and is being awarded to Tina Nabatchi, professor of public administration and international affairs, for her book "Collaborative Governance Regimes."

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Gerard and Bruno-van Vijfeijken deliver leadership program in Tanzania

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INSCT awarded grant to study law & policy of unmanned aerial systems

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The Logic of Compromise in Mexico: How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism

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UNRWA and the Arab Palestinian Refugees: Contested Claims and Anomalies

April 20, 2017, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

204 Maxwell Hall

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Guest Speaker: Asaf Romirowsky, Executive Director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME).
He is a fellow at the Middle East Forum and is an adjunct professor at Haifa University. Trained as a Middle East historian he holds a PhD in Middle East and Mediterranean Studies from King's College, London, UK, and has published widely on various aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict and American foreign policy in the Middle East, as well as on Israeli and Zionist history. He is co-author of "Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief."

This event is co-sponsored by the following programs at Syracuse University: Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) at the Maxwell School, Jewish Studies at the College of Arts & Sciences, and the Middle Eastern Studies Program at the Maxwell School.

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