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Scholarship, Advocacy, and Activism: Duke Faculty Perspectives on Human Rights - Dennis Clements
Dennis Clements discusses his first encounters with human rights violations and one human rights issue that he believes to be vital to achieving universal equality.Published 4 months ago
Nyuol Tong on South Sudan & Navigating Borders
Former South Sudanese refugee and Duke University student Nyuol Tong presented his lecture, "Building a School in South Sudan" at the FHI on October 29th, 2012. As a boy in Sudan, Nyuol Tong wanted nothing more than to go to school. Finally, his village has one because he built it. During Tong's childhood, Sudan was in the midst of the longest civil war in Africa's history. "As any South Sudanese, the last several decades of civil war have defined who I am and, in fact, have shaped my trajectory," says Tong as he speaks about his family's exodus from their native land. At age 21, this remarkable young man is founder & director of SELFSudan, a non-profit organization that partners with South Sudanese villages to build schools and empower their communities. In this interview, we asked Nyuol to speak how borders affect his work, and how his work might address some of the ways in which borders are conceived. This event was presented by the BorderWork(s) Lab at Duke.
Published 5 months ago
How to Use Art Education to Create Social Change - Courtney Spence
In Chapter 8 of 16 in her 2011 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, non-profit founder and executive Courtney Spence answers "What Do You Enjoy Most About Working at the Intersection of Social Change, Art and Education?" She finds the continuing change present at this intersection provides a powerful storytelling platform for individuals looking to do good in the world. She finds telling stories of progress through the lens of the good happening in the world, it is more actionable. Spence is founder and executive director of Students of the World - http://studentsoftheworld.org - a non-profit that partners with passionate college students to create new media to highlight global issues and the organizations working to address them. Spence graduated with a BA in History from Duke University.
Published 1 year ago
The Role of Social Media in Iranian Protests
Negar Mottahedeh, Steve Daniel, Steve Song, Owen Astrachan, Leila Mouri, Ian Clarke and a group of Duke University students discuss the impact of new digital technologies during the post-election crisis in Iran in 2009. (April 22, 2010)Published 2 years ago
Diane M. Nelson on the Guatemalan Civil War
Diane M. Nelson, author of Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala (Duke University Press, 2009), discusses the impact of the decades long civil war on the people of Guatemala.Published 4 years ago
