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Policy Events at Stanford (PEAS)

Stanford in Government's Policy Events at Stanford (PEAS) is a weekly digest of policy-relevant events happening around campus.  We hope to provide a centralized place for students and friends of SIG to find out about upcoming speaker events, seminars, lectures and discussions of interest to a broad audience of politically motivated students.  We search through websites to find the most interesting events for you to attend, but if you would like us to advertise an event, please fill out the form in full at the bottom of this email. If you're getting this e-mail as a forward and you are not yet on the sig-friends mailing list, you can sign up by going here: http://www.stanford.edu/group/SIG/cgi-bin/index.php/mailing-list-signup

This Week (January 30-February 3)

Cigarette Citadels, Remapping Theory and Policy, Cigarette Factories in and Outside of China
Monday, January 30^th

12-1:30pm
Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall
In 2011, the world’s largest cigarette maker by volume, the China National Tobacco Corporation, contributed an all-time high of U.S. $214 billion in profits and taxes to the Chinese government, up 22 percent year-on-year. With special attention given to China’s network of cigarette factories, Matthew Kohrman, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Senior Fellow at FSI, will explain how the Cigarette Citadels Project not only reveals conceptual roadblocks in public health policy but also lacuna in social theory pertaining to the state and the politics of life.

RSVP by 5pm on January 27^th at: http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/cigarette_citadels_remapping_theory_and_policy_cigarette_factories_in_and_outside_of_china/

The Transition to Afghan Sovereignty: Assessing Progress and Identifying Challenges 

Monday, January 30^th 

4:30-6:00pm

Bechtel Conference Center

Ten years into the war in Afghanistan, former Ambassador and Commander of the American-led Coalition Forces Karl W. Eikenberry will discuss the conduct of the war and the transition to Afghanistan sovereignty and leadership. He will analyze the prospects for major progress by the Afghan people and their leaders and identify expected challenges along the way.

More information at: http://cisac.stanford.edu/events/the_transition_to_afghan_sovereignty_assessing_progress_and_identifying_challenges/

Why South Sudan Succeeded and Why Darfur Failed: Lessons About Activism

Monday, January 30^th

5:30-6:30pm

Arrillaga Family Dining Commons' Study Room 

Discussion led by John Prendergast, Human Rights Activist and Co-Founder of the Enough Project, with Resident Fellow of Crothers Hall, Global Citizenship Theme, Professor Steve Stedman.

More information at: http://events.stanford.edu/events/307/30715/

Human Trafficking from a Victim's Perspective
Tuesday, January 31^st 
5:30-7:30pm
Bechtel Conference Center
A talk with Rani Hon, Human Trafficking Survivor, Founder at Tronie Foundation, and Helen Stacy, Director at Program on Human Rights. In 2002, Ms. Rani Hong’s testimony before the Washington State legislature helped pass a law that had been stalled for four years, making it the first state in the nation to pass anti-trafficking legislation. Ongoing testimony for the next nine years aided passage of numerous laws that helped Washington State become the national model for anti-trafficking legislation. 

More information at: http://cddrl/events/human_trafficking_from_a_victims_perspective/

Jerusalem in Palestinian-Arab and Israeli-Jewish Identities

Wednesday, February 1^st

12:00pm

Building 360, Conference Room

Hillel Cohen is Research Fellow in the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  His research focuses on Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine/Israel with special respect to the Palestinian internal refugees and the 1948 War. He is the author of Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Services and the Israeli Arabs, Army of Shadows, Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948, andPresent Absentees: Palestinian Refugees in Israel Since 1948.

More information at: http://www.stanford.edu/group/mediterranean/cgi-bin/web/2011/12/hillel-cohen-jerusalem-in-palestinian-arab-and-israeli-jewish-identities/

The Arab Spring and Sudan
Thursday, February 2^nd

12:00-1:30pm
Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall

An event with John Prendergast, an author and human rights activist who has worked for peace in Africa for over 25 years. He is Co-Founder of the Enough Project, an initiative to end genocide and crimes against humanity. During the Clinton administration, Prendergast was involved in a number of peace processes in Africa while he was Director of African Affairs at the National Security Council and Special Advisor to Susan Rice at the Department of State. Prendergast has also worked for two members of Congress, UNICEF, Human Rights Watch, the International Crisis Group, and the U.S. Institute of Peace. 

RSVP by 5pm on February 1^st at: http://cddrl/events/the_arab_spring_and_sudan/

The Politics of Critical Infrastructure Protection, CISAC Social Science Seminar
Thursday, February 2^nd

3:30-5:00pm
Reuben W. Hills Conference Room, Encina Hall

Ryan Ellis is a Postdoctoral Fellow at CISAC. His research focuses on contemporary debates about infrastructure security. In particular, his research examines the tension between the liberalization of infrastructure governance and the operation of resilient systems. This work considers the relationship between law, policy, and system architecture in energy, communication, and transportation networks.

More information at: http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/the_politics_of_critical_infrastructure_protection/

Combating Cyber Insecurity Around the Globe
Thursday, February 2^nd

4:30-6:00pm
Sloan Mathematics Center, Bld. 380, Room 380y
Christopher Painter has been on the vanguard of cyber issues for twenty years. Most recently, Mr. Painter served in the White House as Senior Director for Cybersecurity Policy in the National Security Staff. During his two years at the White House, Mr. Painter was a senior member of the team that conducted the President's Cyberspace Policy Review and subsequently served as Acting Cybersecurity Coordinator. He coordinated the development of a forthcoming international strategy for cyberspace and chaired high-level interagency groups devoted to international and other cyber issues.

More information at: http://cddrl/events/combating_cyber_insecurity_around_the_globe/

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