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 Starting this Fall, NGO offers a new graduate certificate program on NGO Management which will be co-taught by specialist in education and development Clinton Robinson and Human Rights Watch France director Jean-Marie Fardeau. This program is designed for students and professionals looking to start or join an NGO as well as NGO staff seeking to deepen their ...
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 Ph.D. candidate A.J. Jackson from the School of International Relations and Diplomacy at AGS has been accepted to present a paper at a conference on "Governing Migration" in Kampala, Uganda, on July 3rd to 6th. This conference is organized by the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, which brings together academics, practitioners and ...
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 Taking place on June 17 in Paris, the annual graduation ceremony of the American Graduate School in Paris featured writer and journalist Alan Riding as the commencement speaker. The thirty-six students of the graduating class together represent twelve different national origins: United States, Guatemala, Ecuador, Ireland, Denmark, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Macedonia, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, and Mongolia. Commencement ...
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 Miram Cochran, who will be graduating this year with two Masters from the dual program in International Relations and Diplomacy/Diplomacy and Strategic Negotiation, went to Turkey to present a paper at a conference on "Whither the 'Post-Westphalian' World? Inequalities, Conflicts and Solidarity in the Twenty-First Century". This conference was held on June 15-17 in Istanbul, at Kadir ...
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 On May 26-27, AGS held its sixth Annual Graduate Student Conference on the theme: “The Politics of Disaster: The Mitigation, Management, and International Response to Environmental Crises.” After a decade marked by a particularly intense series of natural and man-made environmental catastrophies, AGS invited students, professors, and NGO managers from around the world to examine the consequences ...
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 "Arab States and Beyond: The Domino Effect": this was the theme of AGS's latest Wine and Cheese evening, which took place on Wednesday, March 11. The discussion was led by AGS faculty member Ambassador Samira Hanna El-Daher, Representative of Lebanon to UNESCO.
After opening the evening with a brief history of the recent revolutionary movements ...
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 On April 11-17, Alexis Delabre, Chairman of the Board of AGS, Eileen Servidio, President of the School of International Relations and Diplomacy at AGS, and Douglas Yates, African Studies specialist at AGS, were invited to the Nyerere Center for Peace Studies in Arusha, Tanzania, to discuss joint African Studies teaching and research projects with Arcadia University.
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 On May 19th, AGS will host the screening a documentary film about work of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, followed by a Q & A session with one of the co-directors of the film.
"The Title 8 Project" is an independant documentary movie showing the daily work of the New York City Commission on Human ...
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On April 7th, Master of International Relations and Diplomacy student Christopher Manning (Class of 2011) presented his research on "The Role of Islamophobia in Homegrown Islamic Radicalization" at the 2nd International Conference on Hate Studies. The conference was sponsored by Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. His presentation examined how anti-Muslim rhethoric and behaviors in the United States and United ...
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 Arthur S. Hoffman, co-founder of the American Graduate School in Paris (at the time called American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy), professor and student advisor, passed away in his sleep on March 3, 2011.
Dr. Hoffman was born in Camden, New Jersey, USA on June 22, 1926. He was valedictorian of the ...
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Moving to Paris has taken a top rank amongst the most challenging things I have experienced in life so far. AGS – the classes, my colleagues, and the school staff – provided for me a sanity that I had lost! This program is phenomenal and is giving me opportunities to do some really cool things, such as being invited to intern for a summer at a school/community outreach program in Tanzania.