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 The McCormack Update

January 25th, 2011

Friends and Colleagues:                                                                                                                                                                 Dean Steve Crosby - 09 

At this moment of national soul searching about whether our divisive and derisive political discourse contributes to madness and violence, the best thinkers realize that with or without that link, this is a moment to reflect on the legitimate role of civility and civil discourse in our democracy. I believe that public policy schools should help lead that reflection, and I'm pleased to tell you that many months before the tragedy in Tucson, MGS established a new Center for Civil Discourse. Under that umbrella, we have applied for a large grant from the National Endowment from the Humanities (an application that was submitted coincidentally 48 hours after the Tucson shooting) to host a National Forum on Civility and American Democracy. That Forum will be followed by a series of Democracy Debates that will be available on broadcast television and the internet, and will both model civil discourse, and bring fact-based reasoning to some of the most contentious issues facing our country. Fundraising is continuing for the Center on Civil Discourse and the Democracy Debates, which we hope to launch no later than the beginning of next year.

Last minute notice! As you'll see from the attached flyer from the Boston Foundation, the Commonwealth Compact is co-sponsoring an important panel on the status of race relations in our community. This will be one of several panels this year; I hope that even at this late date you will be able to attend. The conversation will be keynoted by some rather disturbing data about the way Boston is perceived across the country, particularly by African Americans and Latinos, as a community for people of color.

This month we are launching another important new center, the Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development. This Center, with Dr. Darren Kew as Executive Director and Michael Keating as Operations Director, incorporates and replaces the Center for Democracy and Development, and combines its strengths with those of the Moakley Chair on Peace and Reconciliation and our new Department of Conflict Resolution, Global Governance and Human Security. The new Center's work will now include a $700,000 additional grant from USAID to continue the acclaimed "Enhanced Judicial Education in China" program begun by Dr. Ed Beard and the former Center on Democracy and Development.

We have a number of great new job opportunities for students, alumni and friends to review. Don't miss them.

Keep warm.

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MGS in the NEWS

ChsristianThe Corporate Tax Rate Debate
CNBC, January 14, 2011
Christian Weller advocates for a simplification of the US corporate tax code.

Survey Suggests No Growth in City's Haitian Population
Dorchester Reporter, January 13, 2011
Public Policy Alum Alix Cantave comments for a story about a new survey suggesting the city's Haitian population is falling.

Should Economists Reveal Who Pays Them?
NPR, January 11, 2011
Professor Christian Weller is quoted for a story about a proposed code of ethics for economists.

Dear Dr. Dollar
Dollars and Sense, January 5, 2010
MGS Senior Fellow Arthur MacEwan explains how high unemployment and recession can be good news for wealthy individuals and corporate profits.

Women Closing the Job, Wage Divide
San Francisco Chronicle, December 31, 2010
MGS Professor Randy Albelda is quoted for a story about the narrowing wage gap between men and women.

 
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Spring 2011 Semester Speakers

January 31, 2011 - 1:00PM - Wheatley Hall, 3rd Floor Room 125

Rebecca A. Silliman, M.D., Ph.D., Chief, Geriatrics Section, Boston Medical Center,
Professor of Medicine, B. U. School of Medicine,
Professor of Public Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston MA
Title:  "Whither 25 Years of Breast Cancer Research Focused on Older Women."

February 14, 2011 - 1:00PM - Wheatley Hall, 3rd Floor Room 125

Christine Bishop, Ph.D., Atran Professor of Labor Economics and Director, Ph.D. Program, Heller School for Social Policy & Management, Brandeis
Title:  "The Nursing Home as Setting for Chronic Illness Care: Risk of Ambulatory Care Sensitive Hospitalization."

February 28, 2011 - 1:00PM - Wheatley Hall, 3rd Floor Room 125       

Miriam Laugesen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management,
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia
Title:  "Relatively Political: How Doctors Shape Physician Payment Policy in Medicare."

Conflict Resolution,

Human Security, and Global Governance

Chloe BerwindChloe Berwind-Dart, a 2009 Masters graduate of the Conflict Resolution Program, recently co-authored this report for the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) regarding electoral violence in Nigeria's 2011 polls.

Ms. Berwind-Dart has been living and working in Nigeria since 2009, and served as a conflict resolution consultant to the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) in Abuja, Nigeria for the production of this report.

Ben SlomoffMr. Ben Slomoff, a 1997 Masters graduate of Dispute Resolution Program, was awarded Mediator of the year by the Congress of Neutrals Contra Costa Superior Court, Walnut Creek California.

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Adenrele NewAdenrele Awotona, the Director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters presented papers at various conferences in November and December 2010. They are:

Children and Young People in Haiti's Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Plan, A paper presented at the 2010 International Workshop on "Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict" representing the 16th Annual Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Conference, Columbia University, New York, December 9-10, 2010

The Participation of Children and Young People in Haiti's Post-Earthquake Reconstruction, A paper presented at the Greenbuild Conference in Chicago, November 17-19, 2010

The Impact of "Natural Disasters" on Older Persons and the Need for their Participation in Pre- and Post-Disaster Planning, A paper presented at the seminar of the United Nations NGO Committee on Ageing, New York, November 4, 2010.

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