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	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
	News@E40 July 28, 2010 Beshimov testifies at commission hearing Bakyt Beshimov, a visiting scholar at CIS and former Kyrgyz Opposition Leader, was invited to speak before the US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. The hearing, which was held July 27, 2010, examined the current situation in Krygyzstan, prospects for stability, democracy, interethnic reconciliation, and US foreign policy.
	Analysis + Opinion July 28, 2010 An ancient tool for holding passions captive Richard SamuelsBoston Globe FOUR YEARS after a young corporal named Gilad Shalit was abducted by Hamas fighters who tunneled beneath the border from Gaza into southern Israel, the Mideast peace process remains trapped by a complex kidnapping drama. Israel and Hamas have exchanged deadly attacks and negotiated fruitlessly for an exchange of prisoners.
	News@E40 July 19, 2010 Carmin helps author IPCC's climate report JoAnn Carmin, director of the Program on Environmental Governance and Sustainability (PEGS) and associate professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, has been named a lead author for the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC, sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is an independent international organization created to assess scientific and technical issues related to climate change. Carmin will serve as a lead author on Chapter 14, "Adaptation Needs and Options," of the Working Group II contribution to AR5. Previously, Carmin served as a peer reviewer of an IPCC special report and was selected to participate in the IPCC Expert Meeting on Human Settlements and Infrastructure to be convened by Working Groups II and III in 2011.
	Audit June 4, 2010 Obama's strategy towards Afghanistan, Pakistan, and South Asia Paul Staniland, MIT The series Audit of the Conventional Wisdom continues with a look at the Obama administration's strategy towards Afghanistan, Pakistan, and South Asia. Paul Staniland, a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at MIT and a member of the Center's Security Studies Program is featured. In fall 2010, Staniland will join the University of Chicago as assistant professor of political science.
	News@E40 June 4, 2010 Samuels, Fravel featured at Asia Policy Assembly The Asia Policy Assembly 2010, convening June 17-18, has invited Richard Samuels, director of CIS and Ford International Professor of Political Science and Taylor Fravel, member of the Security Studies Program and the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science, for discussions on international implications of domestic political transitions and international security (respectively). The meaning and exercise of Asia’s global influence is the theme for the inaugural assembly. Co-sponsoring the two-day event are the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.