Duke's Patrick Duddy explains why it is in U.S. national interest to reassert itself as Latin American region’s international partner of choice. Duddy is a former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela. Read more on The National Interest.

Anna Sun (Duke University) spoke at Duke with Brian Stennsland (Indiana & Purdue) and Jaime Kucinskas (Hamilton College) to examine how spirituality interacts with religion, culture, politics, and civic life. They co-edited the recently published volume, "Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice, and Powe r" (Oxford, 2021.)

DUCIGS' director, Giovanni Zanalda and former U.S. ambassador Patrick Duddy joined a Duke University panel on Ukraine, also featuring professor Edna Andrews and Duke Sanford historian Simon Miles. The panelists concurred this crisis might lead to a new era of global competition.

At a Wednesdays at the Center, Duke Philosophy professor Felipe De Brigard presented his study showing that for the victims of political violence—such as the many who suffered in the 57-year conflict in Colombia—forgiveness proves to be a tool for emotional distancing from trauma and the perpetrators of that trauma.