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	News@E40 October 25, 2010 CIS/ICAN women's study released to UN A year-long study in six countries has found that the goals of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325, enacted 10 years ago, have not been fulfilled and that implementation is generally poor. The U.N. itself, major industrial powers, other international organizations, and conflict states have all failed to include women in peace processes and peacebuilding, two key goals of the resolution. The study, “What the Women Say: Participation and UNSCR 1325,” was organized by the MIT Center for International Studies and the International Civil Society Action Network, a NGO based in Washington DC. The 50-page study and recommendations were released on Oct. 28, 2010, at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. Press Release \| Related Media: AP, New York Times, and Salon
	News Release October 25, 2010 Six-nation study finds promises on women’s security unmet A yearlong study in six countries has found that the goals of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325, enacted 10 years ago, have not been fulfilled and that implementation is generally poor. The U.N. itself, major industrial powers, other international organizations, and conflict states have all failed to include women in peace processes and peacebuilding, two key goals of the resolution.
	Analysis + Opinion October 25, 2010 Wikileaks docs underestimate Iraqi dead John TirmanAlterNet Online For all their value, the newly leaked documents will, unfortunately, reinforce the inaccurate lower estimates of Iraqi mortality.
	In the News October 14, 2010 China's dilemma George Gilboy and Eric HeginbothamForeign Affairs Social change and political reform.
	News@E40 September 28, 2010 PEGS names new fellows The Center's Program on Environmental Governance and Sustainability (PEGS) has named four MIT graduate students as its 2010-2011 fellows. The students will be working across the globe on issues related to environmental change and conflict. The faculty directors for this year's fellows are Professors JoAnn Carmin and Diane Davis, both from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Carmin directs the PEGS program at CIS and Davis is a member of CIS.
	News@E40 September 28, 2010 PEGS announces graduate fellows program The Center’s Program on Environmental Governance and Sustainability (PEGS) is initiating a new fellows program for graduate students at MIT. The award period runs from November 2010 through November 2011. Application materials must be submitted no later than 5 PM on October 15, 2010. The 2010-2011 theme is "Environmental Change and Conflict." The faculty directors for this year’s fellows are Professors Diane Davis and JoAnn Carmin, both from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
	News@E40 September 10, 2010 Luce Fellowship deadline Oct. 18 Monday, October 18, is this year's deadline for the Luce Scholars Program. Young scholars from a wide variety of intellectual fields will be placed in 10-month internships in selected countries in East and Southeast Asia. The fellowship is aimed for those with no prior experience in Asia. Nominees must be American citizens not yet 30 years old on September 1, 2011, and who have earned at least a bachelor's degree or expect to receive one by September 1, 2011. More information is available here.
	News Release September 8, 2010 Journalist from Pakistan receives Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship CIS announces today that Rabia Mehmood, a journalist in the Lahore bureau of Express 24/7 Television in Pakistan, has received the 2010–11 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship. Mehmood is the sixth recipient of the annual fellowship, which gives a woman journalist working in print, broadcast, or online media the opportunity to focus exclusively on human rights journalism and social justice issues.
	News@E40 September 8, 2010 Posen, a signatory on Afghanistan report The Afghanistan Study Group, a bipartisan group of leading academics, business executives, former government officials, policy practitioners and journalists, recently released a proposal on Afghanistan that "reframes the connection between America’s core foreign policy and national security objectives..." Barry Posen, director of the Center’s Security Studies Program and Ford International Professor of Political Science, is among the signatories. The full report is available here.
	News@E40 September 8, 2010 Journalist from Pakistan joins CIS The Center welcomes Rabia Mehmood, a journalist in the Lahore bureau of Express 24/7 Television in Pakistan, and the recipient of the 2010-11 Elizabeth Neuffer fellowship, to MIT. The annual fellowship gives a woman journalist working in print, broadcast or online media the opportunity to focus exclusively on human rights journalism and social justice issues. The award is offered through the International Women's Media Foundation and is sponsored in part by CIS. The fellowship is named for Elizabeth Neuffer, a Boston Globe reporter who was killed on assignment in Iraq in 2003. Press Release