Nancy Lindborg speaks at 2018 Pearson Global Forum
President of the US Institute of Peace Nancy Lindborg speaks at the inaugural Pearson Global Forum held in Chicago in 2018.
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Nancy Lindborg speaks at 2018 Pearson Global Forum
President of the US Institute of Peace Nancy Lindborg speaks at the inaugural Pearson Global Forum held in Chicago in 2018.
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Lessons from Ebola Crisis to improve outcomes during COVID-19 | COVID-19 Series
The role of trust in health care systems has never been more important than during the current outbreak of COVID-19. Elias Papaioannou was joined in conversation with Oeindrila Dube, the Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago, to discuss how her research in Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak. This conversation is part of the Wheeler Institute’s COVID-19 series – bringing together the expertise and experience of our extended community to understand, illuminate and offer solutions to the challenges created by COVID-19. Our differentiating factor is the role of business in addressing these challenges, with a focus on the implications and actions for those in developing countries.
Will COVID-19 Change Governments Forever?
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a global-wide event that has fundamentally changed the way humans go about their lives. From education, to work, to healthcare and safety, all the familiar systems and processes have been replaced with new, unfamiliar ones. Concepts like remote work and virtual education, which were forecasted to take place gradually over the course of many years, occurred suddenly. Will COVID-19 change governments forever? In this World Government Summit webinar, Prof. James Robinson shares his insights on the future of governments to post the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID 2025: Changing the rules of international relations
Our world in the next five years: Political scientist Paul Poast on how coronavirus will change the global economy, US-China relations and the World Health Organization.
Institutions, development economics and modernization theory
Our guest is James Robinson. He is the University Professor and institute director of The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts at the University of Chicago. We talked about "Why Nations Fail", the current state of development economics, why economists started writing books, modernization theory, coauthorship with Daron Acemoglu, why British universities are lagging behind American ones and whether Milton Friedman is overrated.
What Do Four Centuries of Kings and Queens Reveal about Female Leadership?
Narrated animated video inspired by Oeindrila Dube and S.P.Harish's 2019 paper “Queens.”
Pearson Institute Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Ben Rhodes
Provost of the University of Chicago and Emmett Dedmon Professor Katherine Baicker moderates a discussion with Ben Rhodes, former deputy US National Security Advisor in a 2019 edition of The Pearson Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series.
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Pearson Institute Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Ben Rhodes
Provost of the University of Chicago and Emmett Dedmon Professor Katherine Baicker moderates a discussion with Ben Rhodes, former deputy US National Security Advisor in a 2019 edition of The Pearson Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series.
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