Global Leaders in Refugee Rights/Dr. Brendan Skip Mark-Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies

Global Leaders in Refugee Rights

Joint event offered in partnership with

the University of Rhode Island

September 25, 2024

6:00PM

at

Hope Room, URI Robert J. Higgins Welcome Center

45 Upper College Road, Kingston, RI

(GPS address: 75 Briar Lane Kingston, RI)

Featuring

Dr. Brendan Skip Mark

Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies

Dr. Skip Mark works at URI as an Assistant Professor of political science, a faculty affiliate of Africana Studies, the Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, the current Sylvia-Chandley Peace Professor. He is also a Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellow in Atrocity Prevention for the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University. He is one of Diverse Issues in Higher Educations 2024 emerging scholars. He is a co-director of the CIRIGHTS data project, the world's largest human rights dataset. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of human rights violations, how to measure complex phenomena, and the interrelationships between human rights, development, and conflict. 

Cocktails with members of the World Affairs Council at 6:00

Buffet dinner at 6:45 (September25menu.pdf)

Presentation at 7:30-8:30

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Members and Their Guests: $50.00

Non-Members:  $60.00

Presentation only: $15.00

Students Free (with .edu email)

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