Susanna Campbell

@susannacampbell.bsky.social

Assoc. Professor @AU_SIS. Director @ripil_au, http://ripilab.com. Policy-engaged research and learning. Former UN/INGO/think tanker. Studying conflict and peace. www.susannacampbell.com

HUGE: In federal court today, Judge Howell found that the Trump Administration and DOGE illegally removed USIP Board members, thereby nullifying ensuing actions including: - replacement of Board members with DOGE officials, - USIP staff purge, and - transfer of USIP property to GSA.

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Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.

Columbia Concedes to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped

The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.

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Informative piece that covers a number of important points about humanitarian aid. The links show the human consequences of the US' drastic cuts as well as the broader context, which includes many European donors also cutting aid.

Humanitarian Action Initiative - GWU@gwu-hai.bsky.social · last yr.

@mzdeloffre.bsky.social (GWU) and Chen Reis (University of Denver) published, Defending humanitarian aid in terms of national security obscures its real purpose, in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/defending-hu...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

list of banned keywords

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

I would love to hear your recommendations! I am teaching a new MA class on humanitarian aid, peacekeeping, and aid in conflict-affected countries. What would you like to see on the syllabus? What articles, books, or reports do you recommend?