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Fellowship Programme on Violent Online Political Extremism

April 20, 2015
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VOX-Pol is offering fellowships for researchers in the area of violent online political extremism. The application deadline is 28 May, 2015. The research fellow will be hosted and mentored by one or two VOX-Pol partner institutions for twelve months in total. The fellowship may also include a short stay at an associated end-user of VOX-Pol. The provisional date for the first fellowship is October 2015.

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Foreign graduates of U.S. colleges become agents of change abroad

April 13, 2015
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In his article for the Sacramento Bee, CMDS fellow Markos Kounalakis writes about the growing number of foreign students at US colleges and how America and their home countries can benefit from this trend. 

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CMDS and OSA Co-host First Hungarian Preview of CitizenFour

April 13, 2015
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Over 120 guests gathered at the Open Society Archives on April 9 for the first Hungarian preview of Laura Poitras' Oscar-winning documentary, CitizenFour. Co-hosted with CMDS, and with a professional audience of journalists, lawyers, civil society activists, academics and students, the evening began with a half-hour live discussion over Skype with Anthony Romero, (Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Edward Snowden's lawyer in the US) and Gill Phillips (Director of Editorial Legal Services, The Guardian).

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Parmar on “The Safety of Female Journalists Online” at meeting of OSCE Chairmanship

March 30, 2015
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Sejal Parmar, member of the core faculty of CMDS spoke on the issue of the “Safety of Female Journalists Online” at an event of the Serbian OSCE Chairmanship on the “Protection of safety and integrity of journalists in the OSCE region” in Belgrade on 26 and 27 March 2015. The event was attended by more than 200 representatives of governments, the media, legislators, academia and NGOs from OSCE participating States.

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Sharath Srinivasan Asks if Growth of Digital Society is Crowding out Politics

March 24, 2015
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During a public lecture hosted by CMDS on March 19, Sharath Srinivasan took both an empirical and theoretical approach to explore how digital technology is both facilitating and, he argued, “displacing the motivation to participate in politics and take action.”

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