At the 2022 Biddle Lecture on International Studies, President Lise Grande of the United States Institute of Peace met a Duke researcher who just a year ago was airlifted out of his native Afghanistan. He publicly thanked Lise Grande as "an example of protecting civilians in crisis.” Read on Duke Today.

Our brand-new Space Diplomacy Lab (SDL) held its kick-off event last Feb 25 with a panel discussion on regulating the increasing activity in space and implications of the current war in Ukraine with leading space journalists Loren Grush (The Verge), Jeff Foust (Space News), and Ramin Skibba (Wired).

DUCIGS' W. Robert Pearson and Benjamin L. Schmitt write in the Foreign Policy Magazine that the Nov. 15, Russian test that blew a derelict spy satellite into more than 1,500 pieces of space debris shows—once more—that new international rules are needed in space.

Read Duke Today's recap of our event: "Global Value Chains for Least Developed Countries: A Proposal to the WTO," where Duke's Gary Gereffi and his academic colleagues Ari van Assche and Stephanie Barrientos presented their proposal to WTO Deputy Director-General Anabel Gonzáles, Chad ambassador in Geneva H.E. Ahmad Makaila (coordinator of the Least Developed Countries (LCDs) group) and Mustafizur Rahman (distinguished fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue in Bangladesh).