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By Kerry Williams Kerry Williams is currently a candidate for a Masters in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (she is both an Edward S. Mason Fellow and a Harvard South African Fellow). Uganda’s punishing policies on gay love and sex have become a hot inter-continental political issue. The passing of the […]

By Leonard Ariff Abdul Shatar This article is a cross-Pacific-Ocean response from Leonard Ariff Abdul Shatar, the President, Malaysian Organization of Pharmaceutical Industries (MOPI), to the article “Can the TPPA Cripple Malaysia’s Healthcare System” by Mr. Unny Sankar, who is currently a Mid-Career MPA student and Mason Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. I am writing […]

By Simon R. Bone British prime minister Harold Macmillan was once asked what a leader most feared he answered: “Events, dear boy, events.” This was very much the topic of Sir Peter Westmacott’s (UK Ambassador to the US) talk to HKS last week. The speech covered a wide range of topics from Libya to Iraq […]

By Doug Gavel CAMBRIDGE MA — Samantha Power, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), will deliver the Graduation Address to the Harvard Kennedy School class of 2014 at 2 pm May 28 at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), HKS Dean David T. Ellwood announced today. As the United States’ permanent representative to the […]

By Simon R. Bone “If knocked down, I will get back up, every time. I am never out of the fight.” Kennedy School Mid-Career Adam La Reau’s One Summit organization held their inaugural event “Climb for Courage” on Saturday at Central Rock Gym in Watertown. The One Summit mission is to help children with cancer […]

By Simon R. Bone Last weekend the Harvard Kennedy School in conjunction with the Harvard Business School held the 15th annual Social Enterprise Conference. It was a weekend packed with new ideas, fun, and inspiration, and was a fantastic experience for all involved. The Conference celled for reflection and ambitious visioning – not only for […]

By Tommy Tobin “The West Wing” is a show that led many members of the HKS community to this place and helped to define their public service trajectories. On Friday, March 28th the IOP Forum hosted cast members Bradley Whitford (“Josh Lyman”), Janel Moloney (“Donna Moss”), Richard Schiff (“Toby Ziegler”), and Lawrence O’Donnell to talk […]

BY CROSBY BURNS A preliminary version of this post originally appeared on the Ash Center’s Challenges to Democracy blog Last year the City of Boston unveiled its plans to devote a portion of its capital budget towards a participatory budget, a social innovation that aims to reimagine citizen engagement, the appropriations process, and democratic participation. […]

In this installment of “Inside the Middle East: Q&A,” Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, Executive Committee Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), discusses the ongoing peace negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians, and prospects for the future.  You can watch the interview, conducted by Colin Eide, Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and […]

Dr. Suzan Bartels is a co-author of the report ‘Running Out of Time – Survival of Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon’ that was published by FXB center last January.  She is board certified in Emergency Medicine in both the U.S. and Canada and is currently an attending physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as […]

BY VIRIDIANA RIOS, PH.D While the emergence of civilian self-defense groups in Mexico has gained the most attention as a strategy to fight drug cartels, the most profound change in that country’s security strategy has largely passed unnoticed. Early on 2014, Mexico approved an entirely new national code of judicial procedures that will transform the […]

What did you do before you came to the Kennedy School? I’ve had two careers before coming to the Kennedy School.  One more illustrious than the other.  Just after my undergraduate I became a documentary filmmaker and did a lot of adventurous things in my early 20s which were great for dinnertime conversation.  One involved […]