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The Talloires Network and the Open Society University Network (OSUN) announced the launch of the OSUN-TN Educational Partnership with a new project aimed at supporting universities engaged in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Communities Of Virtual Alliance & Inter-Dependence (or “COV-AID”). The pilot phase of COV-AID consists of two parts: a six month webinar series entitled “Adapting to the New Reality: Civically Engaged Universities Offer Strategies and Hope;” and a Student Engagement Award.

Fletcher Dean Rachel Kyte writes that now is the time to reset our institutions and economies towards decarbonization, in an op-ed for Thomson Reuters Foundation.

A&S anthropologist Sarah Pinto discusses here new book, "The Doctor & Mrs. A.: Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis."

Fletcher's Chris Miller explores the similarities between COVID-19 and the fall of the Soviet Union, in an op-ed for The New York Times.

Fletcher's Bhaskar Chakravorti calls on social media leadership to enforce stricter standards around COVID-19 information, in an op-ed for The Indian Express.

Fletcher’s John Shattuck writes why a controversial law that has granted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán unlimited governance powers in response to the Coronavirus epidemic is an abuse of power that “suspend[s] democracy in ways that will outlast the current emergency.”

Alumnus Kartikeya Batra (F15) publishes op-ed in The Quint on how nationalist leaders are responding to COVID19.

MALD student Marina Lorenzini argues in favor of temporary Iran sanction relief, in an op-ed for The National Interest.

GDAE visiting scholar David Sussman examines the effects of climate change on Japanese culture, such as the early blooming of cherry blossoms, and urging an increase in climate change awareness and action among Japan’s citizens.