Welcome to the Boston Network for International Development (BNID). BNID's purpose is to serve as a point of connection for groups and individuals in the Boston area who are concerned with issues of international development and global justice.
Featured Organization of February: Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at Harvard University
The Harvard Kennedy School's Kokkalis Program was established to train, engage, and connect present and future leaders to effectively serve the public good of Southeast Europe. Through educational opportunities, such as fellowships, summer internship grants, and an interdisciplinary lecture series, the Program convenes and sustains a network of diverse thinkers to accelerate responses to the region’s challenges. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/programs/kokkalis
Week of February 6, 2012
We would like to thank the following organizations for submitting events this week:
The Harvard Kennedy School’s Kokkalis Program (Our featured organization for the month of February!)
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University
EcoLogic Development Fund
United Nations Association of Greater Boston
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Participatory Grant Making in Action: The Vision of a New Young Feminist Fund
Location
Panelists
Betsy Hoody | Board Member, FRIDA - Young Feminist Fund
Susan Ostrander | Professor of Sociology, Tufts University
Marisa Viana | Manager, Young Feminist Activism Program, Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
Whither Europe? Lessons, Risks, and the Way Forward
Location
A lecture by Jeffrey Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Harvard Kennedy School
First in a semester-long series of lectures co-sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School's Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, the Center for International Development at Harvard University, and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University
"The UN's Role in Global Diplomacy Today" with Alan Henrickson
Location
Alan Henrickson is now the Lee E. Dirks Professor of Diplomatic History and the Director of Diplomatic Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy as well as teaches American diplomatic history, contemporary U.S.- European relations, global political geography, and the history, theory, and practice of diplomacy at Tufts University. Henrickson is also currently a member of the National Council of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations and member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
