Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

Kosovo: Education as Resistance | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

Aferdita Krasniqi, a widely recognized expert in international education, will share her extensive 24 years of experience fostering academic and cultural relations between the small nation of...

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Why Women Peacebuilders Matter | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) presents the Women Building Peace Award (WBPA) annually to an extraordinary international woman peacebuilder. During this International Women’s Day event, Dr....

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Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

The root of the Russo-Ukrainian War is not geopolitical competition, but the multifaceted divergence between Ukraine and Russia over the past 30 years. As Ukraine consolidated a competitive...

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In Pursuit of Food Justice, Globally and Locally | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

Food Justice, a social movement ensuring universal access to nutritious, affordable, and culturally appropriate food for all, is a growing imperative today. Only by examining the structural...

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Working with Refugees and Displaced Persons: The International Rescue Committee in Iowa | ICFRC

Join speakers Sarah Terlouw and Aimerance Nzinga for this important conversation. Sarah Terlouw, IRC's Executive Director in Iowa, will speak about her 15-year career supporting refugees, her...

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Digital Democracy and Youth Empowerment | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

Young people are increasingly using digital technologies to participate in democracy. This event will explore how digital technologies can be used to empower young people and encourage them to...

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Latinos in Iowa: Planting Seeds of Prosperity, Power and Progress | ICFRC

In honor of this year's Hispanic Heritage Month theme, Elizabeth Bernal, Marcela Hurtado, and Paola Jaramillo will speak to the progress Latinos and Hispanics have made over the last fifteen...

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Surviving a Dictator, A Dictator Surviving | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

What happened in Syria since it stopped being a "Breaking News" hot topic? How are the Syrian people surviving post civil war living conditions? Is Assad still at large? And why does it...

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Border Imperialism: Control of Land and Bodies Through Colonial Violence | ICFRC

Speaker Sikowis Nobiss, Founder/ED of the Great Plains Action Society, talks about how Colonial border policy enforcement, coupled with settler-state immigration laws, are critical factors in...

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Quality Education for All: UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On UN Day this year we are honoring that historic agreement by emphasizing the rights of youth, especially the right...

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