New York, New York— Thomas Asher, Director of the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Program will now serve on the Conflict Resolution Program Advisory Council at the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding. The Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding is a secular, non-sectarian nonprofit that seeks to bridge religious difference in institutional settings in regions with armed conflict. [Read More]

Cape Town, South Africa—In January 2015, the Next Generation Social Sciences Program partnered with the University of the Western Cape’s Center for Humanities Research to host fellows working on dissertation proposals. The workshop featured a series of lectures from leading researchers in South Africa, each proposing means of charting new avenues to identify important research [Read More]