FSI researchers consider international development from a variety of angles. They analyze ideas such as how public action and good governance are cornerstones of economic prosperity in Mexico and how investments in high school education will improve China’s economy.
They are looking at novel technological interventions to improve rural livelihoods, like the development implications of solar power-generated crop growing in Northern Benin.
FSI academics also assess which political processes yield better access to public services, particularly in developing countries. With a focus on health care, researchers have studied the political incentives to embrace UNICEF’s child survival efforts and how a well-run anti-alcohol policy in Russia affected mortality rates.
FSI’s work on international development also includes training the next generation of leaders through pre- and post-doctoral fellowships as well as the Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program.
The Fight for Internet Freedom
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Abstract
The Internet makes lives better, around the world, in ways people couldn't have imagined not even a decade ago. It sparks prosperity, inspires dissent, improves education, and encourages freedom. But all of the good it does is under threat, largely from governments. He will discuss where those threats are coming from, and the critical importance for us all that we overcome them.
David Drummond joined Google in 2002, initially as vice president of corporate development. Today as senior vice president and chief legal officer, he leads Google’s global teams for legal, government relations, corporate development (M&A and investment projects) and new business development (strategic partnerships and licensing opportunities).
David was first introduced to Google in 1998 as a partner in the corporate transactions group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, one of the nation’s leading law firms representing technology businesses. He served as Google’s first outside counsel and worked with Larry Page and Sergey Brin to incorporate the company and secure its initial rounds of financing. During his tenure at Wilson Sonsini, David worked with a wide variety of technology companies to help them manage complex transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and initial public offerings.
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Law School
Room 190
David C. Drummond
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer
Speaker
Google, Inc
Seminars
<i>The Act of Killing (Director's Cut)</i> Film Screening and Panel Discussion
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*This event is free and open to the public.*
PANELISTS
Don Emmerson - Director of the Southeast Asia Forum, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; Affiliated Scholar, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies; Affiliated Faculty, CDDRL
Erik Jensen - Professor of the Practice of Law, Stanford Law School; Senior Advisor for Governance and Law, The Asia Foundation; Senior Research Scholar, CDDRL; Director, Rule of Law Program, Stanford Law School
Norman Naimark - Director of the Stanford Global Studies Division; Professor of History
Diane H. Steinberg (Panel Chair) - Visiting Scholar at Stanford's Program on Human Rights, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL)
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The Act of Killing visits former Indonesian death squad killers who wreaked havoc in 1965 and 1966 in the aftermath of Indonesia's military coup and yet have never been held accountable for slaughtering between 200,000 to 2 million people in a genocide often forgotten. The dramatic reenactments of the murders in the documentary catalyze an unexpected emotional journey for Anwar Congo from arrogance to regret as he confronts for the first time in his life the full implications of what he has done.
The Act of Killing is an award-winning documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer with co-director Christine Cynn and and an anonymous co-director from Indonesia. It is a Danish-British-Norwegian co-production, presented by Final Cut for Real in Denmark and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen. It was recently nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
"Director Joshua Oppenheimer has made a documentary in which he interviews the leaders of Indonesian death squads, who were responsible, collectively, for the deaths of millions of Communists, leftists and ethnic Chinese in 1965 and 1966. But he doesn't just interview them. He has them re-enact their crimes and even invites them to write, perform and film skits dramatizing their murders." Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 8/8/2013
"Director Joshua Oppenheimer has made a documentary in which he interviews the leaders of Indonesian death squads, who were responsible, collectively, for the deaths of millions of Communists, leftists and ethnic Chinese in 1965 and 1966. But he doesn't just interview them. He has them re-enact their crimes and even invites them to write, perform and film skits dramatizing their murders." Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 8/8/2013
"The Act of Killing is a bold reinvention of the documentary form, as well as an astounding illustration of man's infinite capacity for evil." Rene Rodriguez, The Miami Herald, 8/15/2013
After the screening of the Director's Cut of The Act of Killing (160 minutes), there will be a thirty-minute panel discussion.
For more information regarding the film, please visit: http://theactofkilling.com/.
This event is presented and sponsored by Stanford Global Studies, CDDRL's Program on Human Rights, and the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education.
Cubberley Auditorium
Conferences
Poverty and Violence: The Hidden Plague the World Has Missed
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We invite you to join Gary Haugen, former director of the UN investigation of the Rwanda Genocide and President and CEO of the International Justice Mission, to discuss his latest book The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence. Haugen will discuss the devastating impact that everyday violence is having on the global fight to reduce poverty and how we can help make the poor safe enough to thrive. Haugen has been recognized by the U.S. State Department as a Trafficking in Persons “Hero” – the highest honor given by the U.S. government for anti-slavery leadership. Book purchase and signing available.
Book purchase and signing available.
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This event is sponsored by: IJM, Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition & the Stanford Program on Human Rights.
For more Information please contact:
Betty Ann Boeving bettyann@baatc.org
Bechtel Conference Center
Gary Haugen
President and CEO of International Justice Mission
Speaker
Conferences
The 3rd Annual Hana-Stanford Conference on Korea for U.S. Secondary School Teachers
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The third annual Hana-Stanford Conference on Korea for U.S. Secondary School Teachers takes place this summer, from July 28 to 30, at Stanford. It will bring together secondary school educators from across the United States as well as a cadre of educators from Korea for intensive and lively sessions on a wide assortment of Korean studies-related topics ranging from U.S.-Korea relations to history, and religion to popular culture. In addition to scholarly lectures, the teachers will take part in curriculum workshops and receive numerous classroom resources developed by Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE).
During the conference, the Sejong Korean Scholars Program (SKSP), a distance-learning program on Korea, will also honor high school students for their exceptional performance in the SKSP program. The finalists will be chosen based on their final research papers, and their overall participation and performance in the online course. The SKSP honorees will be presenting their research essays at the conference. The SKSP program is generously supported by the Korea Foundation.
For details of the application procedures for the teachers, please visit the SPICE website.
A video clip from the conference held in 2013 is available.
Paul Brest Hall West
555 Salvaterra Walk
Stanford University
Conferences
Quality education for all children? What works in education in developing countries
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Education is critical to economic and social development. There has been substantial progress in improving education in developing countries, but there are still considerable challenges ahead. In recent years, improvements in enrollment worldwide have slowed down, increasing by only two per cent between 2004 and 2009. Moreover, it is important for children not only to enroll in schools but to also complete their schooling. Although the international community has focused predominately on getting children into school, it is just as important to ensure that children are able to learn and acquire new skills when they do enter classrooms. What works in getting children into school in developing countries, keeping them there, and ensuring that they learn whilst there? Drawing on systematic review evidence, Howard White shows that most interventions intended to get children into school do work, as do those to improve learning outcomes. Some, of course, work better than others.
Howard White leads the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie),which funds impact evaluations and systematic reviews that generate evidence on what works in development programs and why. He is Managing Editor of the Journal of Development Studies and the Journal of Development Effectiveness.
This seminar is part of the new INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INITIATIVE, a project co-sponsored by the Freeman Spogli Institute, the Rural Education Action Project, the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and the Center for Education Policy Analysis
CISAC Conference Room
Howard White
Speaker
Seminars
China 2.0 Forum Beijing
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| China 2.0 Forum in Beijing Friday, April 11, 2014 Registration: 13:00 - 14:00 Forum: 14:00 - 18:00 Networking Reception: 18:00 - 19:00 Stanford Center at Peking University |
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first continuous connection between China and the internet, facilitated by researchers at Stanford and in Beijing, China 2.0 at Stanford Graduate School of Business is hosting the 2014 China 2.0 Forum in Beijing.
About the 2014 China 2.0 Forum
Receive the latest updates and more information on the event website.
Registration
Participation is by invitation only. Invitations are non-transferable. Seats are limited.
About China 2.0
China 2.0 at Stanford Graduate School of Business focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship in China by looking at the drivers and dynamics of China as a digital power and its implications for commerce, communications, and content in the global economy. China 2.0 convenes thought leaders in China and Silicon Valley, supports cutting-edge research and curriculum development by faculty, and organizes programs to educate students as next generation leaders.
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Past China 2.0 Speakers |
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| Charles Chao CEO & Chairman of the Board, SINA |
Joe Chen Founder Renren |
John Hennessy President Stanford University |
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| Jon Huntsman Former U.S. Ambassador to China |
Victor Koo Founder Youku |
Martin Lau President, Tencent |
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| Robin Li Co-founder Baidu |
Gary Locke U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China |
Jack Ma Founder Alibaba Group |
The Stanford Center at Peking University
Workshops
Financial Reform: Implications for China’s State-Owned Enterprises
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Financial reform is one of the key priorities identified at the Third Plenum in November while state-owned enterprises got little mention. But will financial reform possibly lead to a fundamental reform of state-owned companies?
Nicholas R. Lardy, Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow, joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics in March 2003. Previously, he was a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program from 1995 until 2003. Before Brookings, he served at the University of Washington, where he was the director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies from 1991 to 1995. From 1997 through the spring of 2000, he was also the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of International Trade and Finance at the Yale University School of Management. He is an expert on Asia, especially the Chinese economy.
Lardy is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the editorial boards of the China Quarterly, Journal of Asian Business,China Review, and China Economic Review. He received his BA from the University of Wisconsin in 1968 and his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1975, both in economics.
This event is co-sponsored with CEAS and is part of the China under Xi Jinping series.
Philippines Conference Room
Nicholas R. Lardy
Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow
Speaker
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Seminars