In the News

National Geographic photographer Nichole Sobecki A09 is featured in this countdown to the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, “Good Morning America” and National Geographic present “Extraordinary Earth: 20 in 2020.”

Over 10 million people have been displaced by the nine year civil war in Syria, which shows no sign of ending. Millions of them have experienced psychological trauma, but may fear getting help because of a stigma associated with mental illness in the region. Help is also scarce, with less than 1% of aid dedicated to mental health. CBS This Morning traveled with Mike Niconchuk A11 to see a special program meant to address refugees’ mental health crisis.

Fletcher’s Alex de Waal examines possible outcomes now that Sudan plans to hand ousted President Omar al-Bashir over to the International Criminal Court.

Fletcher postdoctoral scholar Benjamin Denison joins the podcast “Power Problems” to discuss how forcible regime change rarely achieves the goal of advancing U.S. interests. Denison is the author of “The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The Failure of Regime-Change Operations.”

Environmental engineer Amy Pickering is leading a test to see if a simple solution to bringing clean water to low-resource communities improves health outcomes

Fletcher's Hurst Hannum examines the International Court of Justice order for Myanmar to take “provisional measures” to protect the Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim minority that has suffered greatly under the military.

Mulugeta G Berhe, from Fletcher’s World Peace Foundation, examines the troubling instability of Ethiopia’s government, which, in his view, is on a path where “complete collapse of the state seems imminent.” Behe is the author of the book “Laying the Past to Rest: The EPRDF and the Challenges of Ethiopian State-Building.”

Friedman’s Feinstein International Center, in partnership with Mercy Corps, has published “The Currency of Connections: The role of social connectedness among South Sudanese refugees in West Nile, Uganda,” a new report on the importance of social relationships for South Sudanese refugees both during their flight and after their arrival in settlements.

Fletcher student Zihao Liu examines the challenges to the 1992 Consensus, a political understanding achieved between mainland China and Taiwan that has provided the "foundation of stable cross-strait relations" between the two.