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Delivering humanitarian aid in digital age

December 3, 2024 sarah JonasResearch Results

A new study by Tarek Ghani, at WashU Olin Business School, found that, despite their lack of tech literacy, women in Afghanistan were able to use funds delivered directly to their phones to purchase food and other necessities. Aid agencies are already taking notice of the work.

Author of “Understanding Terrorism” and “Understanding Homeland Security” discusses 9/11 anniversary, 20 years of the War on Terror, and future threats to the U.S.

September 6, 2021 sarah JonasExpert Pitch

Ahead of the 20-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Gus Martin reflects on lessons learned from the War on Terror and the War in Afghanistan, and the ever-changing landscape of extremism at home and abroad. Martin is a professor…

Kabul bombings indicate fragile American position in Afghanistan

August 27, 2021 sarah JonasExpert Pitch

As evacuations continue from Afghanistan, the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed that two suicide bombers detonated in Kabul today, killing at least 12 U.S. service members. David Silbey, associate professor of history at Cornell University, studies wars of the 20th…

Albany Law School Professor Available to Speak on International Law Issues of Afghanistan Withdrawal

August 26, 2021 sarah JonasExpert Pitch

Dr. Alexandra R. Harrington – founder and Executive Director of the Center for Global Governance and Emerging Law and Research Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law – is available to speak about the continuing withdrawal of…

U.S. legally, morally obligated to ‘clean up the mess’ in Afghanistan, WVU researcher says

August 23, 2021 sarah JonasExpert Pitch

A West Virginia University researcher who has worked with refugees and women in the Arab world believes the United States has a legal and moral obligation to aid the Afghan population after the Taliban’s takeover. The Taliban’s leadership has stated…

Thunderbird at ASU continues helping Afghan businesswomen as Taliban takes over Afghanistan

August 23, 2021 sarah JonasExpert Pitch

Thunderbird School of Global Management, a unit of Arizona State University, began supporting Afghan women’s economic empowerment in 2005, after the fall of the Taliban, through a program called Project Artemis. As an international business school, our team is working…

GLOBAL POLIOVIRUS RISK MANAGEMENT AND MODELING

February 16, 2021 sarah JonasResearch Results

Launched in 1988, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) stands out as one of the largest, internationally coordinated global public health major projects conducted to date, with cumulative spending of over $16.5 billion for 1988–2018, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). More than 30 years later, stubborn outbreaks of wild poliovirus still occur in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where cases have been increasing since 2018. The global eradication of polio continues to be an elusive goal.

International law and armed conflict expert available to comment on Russian bounty payments

June 30, 2020 sarah JonasExpert Pitch

For stories on Russian bounty payments for American troops in Afghanistan–especially the credibility of the reports, the legality of such actions, and the multi-country history of bounties in foreign policy–contact Mary Ellen O’Connell, Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law…

Should the United States Leave Afghanistan?

March 18, 2020 sarah JonasFeature

The latest episode of The President’s Inbox is live. This week, I discussed the U.S. role in Afghanistan with Carter Malkasian, former special assistant for strategy to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Barnett Rubin, senior fellow and associate director of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

December 10, 2019 sarah JonasFeature

As NATO readies for what some believe is a new Cold War with Russia, the seventy-year-old alliance struggles to manage widening internal divisions.