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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'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.

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.

Fletcher Ph.D. student Frank Sobchak writes this piece on the importance of preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

Rachel Kyte, dean of the Fletcher School, says “Europe and America are moving slightly apart from each other” in this article on President Donald Trump’s appearance at the World Economic Forum, during which he threatened tariffs against European countries traditionally thought of as allies to the United States.

Vladimir Putin's tenure as Russian president may be nearing its end, but that doesn't mean he is loosening his grip on power. Fletcher Professor Chris Miller details the lessons Putin learned about power transitions in the former Soviet Union and what it means for Russia moving forward in his latest piece for Foreign Policy.