OSI Forum: Zero Tolerance School Discipline Policies
OSI-Baltimore
May 12, 2004
Guest Speaker(s): Bernardine Dohrn

Bernardine Dohrn, the director of the Children and Family Justice Center, discusses "zero tolerance" school discipline policies implemented in the wake of the Colombine school shooting and the adverse effects of these policies on young people and the community.   more

OSI Forum: Recording Truth
Open Society Institute
May 11, 2004
Guest Speaker(s): Susan Meiselas, George Vickers, Mayu Mohanna, Vera Lentz

Photographers who chronicled Peru’s 20-year internal conflict discuss the work of Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission through the lens of a groundbreaking local photo exhibit about the violence.   more

OSI Forum: Islamic Terrorism, the Middle East, and Central Asia: the Elusive Connection
OSI-Washington, D.C.
May 10, 2004
Guest Speaker(s): Olivier Roy

Olivier Roy, research director in the humanities and social sciences sector of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, discussed links between Islamic terrorism, the Middle East, and Central Asia.   more

StopVAW Website National Monitor Training
Budapest, Hungary
May 9, 2004

A workshop at which national VAW monitors were trained to coordinate and facilitate the continued development and maintenance of country pages on the Stop Violence Against Women website.   more

Briefing and Discussion with Members of the UN Millennium Project Task Force 3 on Education and Gender Equality
OSI-New York
April 29, 2004

Launched in 2002 by UN officials, the UN Millennium Project seeks to recommend the best strategies for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Task Force 3 is charged with assessing progress toward two goals: universal primary education and gender equality/women’s empowerment.   more

OSI Forum: Social Change through Online Organizing
OSI-Baltimore
April 22, 2004

Rob Stuart, a leading Internet media advisor and strategist for numerous national political and advocacy organizations, discusses successful citizen mobilization and Internet fundraising strategies.   more

OSI Forum: Alternatives to Zero Tolerance School Discipline Policies
OSI-Baltimore
April 21, 2004

Pedro Noguera, a professor of communities and schools at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, discusses specific strategies schools may utilize as an alternative to zero-tolerance discipline policies.   more

Engendering Development Work with Grassroots Roma Communities
Budapest, Hungary
April 18, 2004

An international training seminar in gender and development for young Roma men and women community activists, organized by the PAKIV European Roma Fund and OSI's Network Women's Program.   more

Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue Workshop on Global Access to Essential Learning Tools
New York City (Ford Foundation)
April 5, 2004

The Intellectual Property Committee of the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue hosts a workshop entitled "Global Access to Essential Learning Tools" at the Ford Foundation in New York City.   more

2004 OSI UK Conference
Nottingham, UK
April 2, 2004

A conference bringing together all current OSI/Chevening grantees in Britain.   more

OSI Forum: Photography as Advocacy?
OSI-New York
March 29, 2004
Guest Speaker(s): Andrew Lichtenstein, Susan Meiselas, Adam Rodriguez, Steve Liss

Andrew Lichtenstein and Steve Liss discuss how they have used documentary photography to examine the social, political, and economic repercussions of the U.S. criminal justice system.   more

OSI Forum: Paradise in Ashes
OSI - New York
March 22, 2004
Guest Speaker(s): Beatriz Manz, Alex Wilde

Anthropologist Beatriz Manz and Latin American specialist Alex Wilde discussed Manz's book about a Guatemalan village during the country's decades-long civil war.   more

Building Bridges Dinner Series: The Case of Thompson v. HUD
Baltimore, Maryland
March 22, 2004

The first event in OSI-Baltimore's "Building Bridges for a Better Baltimore: Are We Organized for Success?" dinner series focuses on segregation and public housing in Baltimore.   more

African Free and Open Source Software Developers Meeting
Windhoek, Namibia
March 15, 2004

A workshop that will connect African software developers with the goal of building the free and open source software (F/OSS) developer community across the continent.   more

Roma Women’s Human Rights Workshop
Budapest, Hungary
March 7, 2004

A workshop, jointly organized by the Network Women's Program and the European Roma Rights Center, that addressed a variety of issues concerning Romani women in Europe.   more