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A Wicked Challenge to US National Security

Professor: Sally Shelton-Colby

Course Time: To be determined

Students in this practicum study a country of strategic interest to the United States and develop policy recommendations for the U.S. Government. Specifically, the practicum addresses challenges with governance, the government's role in international conflicts, fractious relationships within the country and in the international community.

Conflict Mitigation and Peacebuilding

Professor: Hrach Gregorian

Course Time: To be determined

This practicum is designed to increase familiarity with current practice in contemporary conflict prevention, mitigation, and settlement. Topics recently covered include conflict minerals, women鈥檚 empowerment, youth violence prevention, and peace gaming. Hands-on activities emphasize such skills as narrative analysis, conflict prevention training, monitoring and evaluation, and conflict mapping.

Food as Soft Power

Professor: Johanna Mendelson-Forman

Course Time: To be determined

Food as a tool of soft power has grown, especially with a focus on citizen food diplomacy. The U.S. Department of State has been active in promoting this aspect of our foreign engagement through programs such as the Chef Corps and more recently through the expansion of the Arts Envoy program to include food as a tool for social change. This practicum will work with thought leader and practitioners at the Bureau for Education and Cultural Affairs, helping them to evaluate their food-related programming with a goal of creating a report that explores what programs have been most effective in criteria that will be established in collaboration with program officers. Students will work closely with State Department cultural affairs expert, helping to interview chef-participants, and NGOs that were beneficiaries of these programs. Through this engagement they will gain a better understanding about State Department programs and moreover, about soft power. They will also meet with the program鈥檚 partners like the James Beard Foundation, Meridian International, and foreign embassies to better understand how food programs support the wider goals of U.S. policy and food security.

Human Rights and Political Violence

Professor: Jeff Bachman

Course Time: To be determined

Students in this practicum will conduct research into alleged human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law. Particular topics may include counterterrorism; armed conflict; genocide; humanitarian intervention; and more.

Intelligence and Analysis

Professor: Aki Peritz

Course Time: To be determined

The class produces a report intended to serve the intelligence, policy, defense, and diplomatic communities. US national security priorities shift rapidly, and topics will be determined with the client organization.

Summer 2023听practica will be offered mostly听online or online with associated travel. Summer 2023听practica with a traveling component have additional associated costs beyond tuition and travel is subject to the evolving Covid-19 situation.

Demanding Challenges Confronting US Foreign Policy

Professor: Earl Anthony Wayne

Course Time: Tuesday, 5:30-8pm EST

Modality: On-Campus

Students in this practicum will conduct research into alleged human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law. Particular topics may include counterterrorism; armed conflict; genocide; humanitarian intervention; and more.听

Conflict Mitigation and Peacebuilding

Professor: Hrach Gregorian

Course Time: Wednesdays 5:30-8pm EST

This practicum is designed to increase familiarity with current practice in contemporary conflict prevention, mitigation, and settlement. Topics recently covered include conflict minerals, women's empowerment, youth violence prevention, and peace gaming. Hands-on activities emphasize such skills as narrative analysis, conflict prevention training, monitoring and evaluation, and conflict mapping. Practicum clients include NGOs such as Partners Global, Search for Common Ground, Saferworld, and Resolve; for-profit organizations such as Creative Associates; and government agencies such as the US Department of State.

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Cultivating Intercultural Competence, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion into the Organization

Professor: Maria Morukian

Course Time: Fridays 5:30-8:00pm EST

Culture is the foundation of an organization鈥檚 existence. It impacts the organization鈥檚 values, behavioral norms, and image to both internal and external stakeholders. It is imperative for organizations to be culturally competent and globally focused to survive. Organizations of all sizes and sectors can benefit by assessing how culturally competent their institutional cultures are, and to engage in organizational culture change efforts to enhance their organizational cultural competencies to build diverse, equitable, and inclusive organizations.

Through this practicum, students will have opportunities to consult with an organization seeking to implement culture change to accommodate the needs and expectations of an increasingly diverse workforce, customer base, and/or social and political climate.

Students will be exposed to concepts of organizational culture change management and organizational behavior change. They will link these concepts to skills for building culturally competent and inclusive institutional cultures, both domestic and global. Students will develop practical skills in service as professional consultants to organizations facing diverse challenges with their institutional cultures, including conducting organizational assessments, developing strategic communication plans, designing training programs for cultural competence, and evaluating culture change efforts.

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Cybersecurity Policy in Action

Professor: Trey Herr

Course Time: Tuesdays 5:30-8:00pm EST

Students will work in groups to address a cybersecurity challenge with strategic importance to the United States. Each group will develop a report with recommendations for a U.S. government client to address this challenge. The nature of cybersecurity is such that challenges emerge and change, along with the needs of policymakers, so specific topics will be determined with the Professor and client organization each semester.

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Democracy, Rule of Law, Human Rights, and Foreign Policy

Professor: Matthew Boyse

Course Time: Fridays 5:30-8:00pm EST

Students in this Practicum examine rankings developed by the most important U.S. and European NGOs that assess the state of rule of law, democracy, and human rights globally. The Practicum exposes students to these concepts as applied to a world region in order to recommend how the State Department should factor them into policy. The class focuses on developing real world skills in policy analysis and writing for policy in producing a report for a senior State Department official. 听听听

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Globalization and the Impact of Corporate Activities on Environmental and Social Rights

Professor: Charles Di Leva

Course Time: Wednesdays 2:30-5:00pm EST

In this practicum students will analyze issues of transnational environmental and social rights through the lens of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the "Ruggie Principles" (the protect, respect and remedy framework). Students will apply these principles to explore topics such as the State鈥檚 duty to ensure businesses takes steps to protect human rights and prevent human rights abuses, the corporate responsibility to respect human rights, and the need to help victims achieve remedy. Through their research students will propose how States and businesses can to put theory into practice. They will propose how States and business and civil society can contribute to effectively deliver on policy, procedure and standards and other mechanisms鈥攊ncluding dialogue鈥攖hat can come into play for countries and companies to effectively integrate business and human rights considerations/human rights responsibilities in the business marketplace with a focus on responsible growth.听

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Human Rights Due Diligence in the Seafood Industry

Professor: Judy Gearhart

Course Time: Fridays 5:30-8:00pm EST

In this practicum, students will engage in policy debates around the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and their application in the seafood industry. Students will research and analyze emerging laws for mandatory human rights due diligence and methodologies for supply chain due diligence and reporting.听Course deliverables will assist funders and practitioners in developing policies and recommendations that address human rights abuse in seafood supply chains and the illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing often correlated with that abuse.

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Intelligence and Analysis

Professor: Aki Peritz

Course Time: Mondays 5:30-8pm EST

The class produces a report intended to serve the intelligence, policy, defense, and diplomatic communities. US national security priorities shift rapidly, and topics will be determined with the client organization.

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Leveraging Civil-Military Engagement

Professor: Jesse Pruett

Course Time: Wednesdays 8:20-10:50pm EST

The US government recognizes the importance of maintaining positive bi- and multi-lateral relationships with African nations and peoples. As other external actors seek to undermine these relationships, an already complex environment becomes increasingly challenging. For US Military units and personnel who will undertake missions in this environment, it is critical to understand not simply the obvious, primary actors at play, but also the roles and impacts of the full spectrum of stakeholders and influencers involved, whether they represent the international community, governments, civil society, industry, academia, or other groups. Practicum participants will explore these stakeholder relationships and consider the challenges and opportunities they present in the context of US Civil-Military efforts in the region. Participants can be expected to produce an assessment based on further client guidance and provide recommendations for a US Army Civil Affairs element with regional responsibilities.

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Peace and Security in the Middle East and Africa

Professor: Jared Pentz

Course Time: Tuesdays 8:20-10:50pm EST

This practicum will focus on the intertwining of security and political issues in intrastate conflict, regional, and post-conflict settings where peace is elusive, especially in Africa and the Middle East. Modern day civil war is exacerbated by many factors including state fragility, multiple parties, internationalization, and regional instability. In line with the needs of the client, we may examine the role of non-state armed actors, state institutions, or local governance on the longevity or negotiation of peace agreements. Students will develop recommendations based on their deliverables, which may include reports, needs assessments, program development, monitoring and evaluation, and best practices. Clients under consideration include US government entities, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental organizations.

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Planning for Conflict and Climate Migrants

Professor: Victoria Kiechel

Course Time: Thursdays 5:30-8:00pm EST

Issues surrounding global human migration are among the most wicked of wicked problems.听听As such, they require integrating methods and perspectives听from听many disciplines in order to address questions of human rights, resource access and sustainability, climate change impacts, peacebuilding and security, and more.听听Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this practicum will engage in research and the proposed recommendations for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on topics and geographies of their choosing.听听In previous years, the practicum has focused our work for IOM on Chad, Nigeria, and Costa Rica; our diverse focuses have included circular (labor) migration, food insecurity and changing migration patterns, vulnerability to trafficking, potential means and methods of community stabilization, and increasing the agency of migrants.听听

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Social Innovation Practicum

Professor: Nancy Sachs

Course Time: Wednesdays 5:30-8:00pm EST

This practicum is for students intrigued by a problem in society who want to develop a solution such as a deliverable for a nonprofit organization, a business plan for a social enterprise, or an app that delivers an essential social service. A central requirement is a willingness to listen and to work with those affected by that issue to understand how they perceive the problem and possible solutions.

Intelligence & Analysis

Professor:听Aki Peritz

Course Time:听Mondays 5:30-8pm EST

This class produces a report intended to serve the intelligence, policy, defense, and diplomatic communities. U.S. national security priorities shift rapidly, and topics will be determined with the client organization.听

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Conflict Mitigation & Peacebuilding

Professor:听Hrach Gregorian

Course Time:听Wednesdays 5:30-8:00pm EST

This practicum is designed to increase familiarity with current practice in contemporary conflict prevention, mitigation, and settlement. Topics recently covered include conflict minerals, women鈥檚 empowerment, youth violence prevention, and peace gaming. Hands-on activities emphasize such skills as narrative analysis, conflict prevention training, monitoring and evaluation, and conflict mapping.听听

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Intelligence Tradecraft to Create Dynamic Futures

Professor:听Craig Stronberg

Course Time:听Thursdays 5:30-8:00pm EST

Analysts from the US Intelligence Community are taught a variety of tools to help policymakers think through how future events may play out so that when crises occur leaders have what is known as 鈥渄ecision confidence鈥�, or the foreknowledge to make confident decisions. This class will enable students to do three things: to develop and analytic mindset/analytic toolkit, to understand methodologies for scenario generation/forecasting that can be used throughout their careers, and to work on practical futures projects related to specific industry, geopolitical and/or macroeconomic issues. Well performing students will increase their own decision confidence about how to differentiate themselves in the marketplace and utilize a proven and highly valuable analytic skill set. The stakeholder for our scenarios will be PwC Intelligence, the analytic team that provides global acumen for the world鈥檚 largest consulting firm (). PwC leaders will provide feedback on the scenarios the class creates and will use valuable output to drive more dynamic engagement with firm leaders.听