Center for Unconventional Security Affairs
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Center for Unconventional Security Affairs CUSA Faculty Affiliate Jean-Daniel Saphores' work on e-waste is the subject of a recent profile.

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UCI researchers Oladele Ogunseitan, left, and Jean-Daniel Saphores work with engineers, manufacturers and public health officials to help solve the growing problem of e-waste.
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Center for Unconventional Security Affairs Crystal Murphy Morgan will present results of her research on microfinance and technology at the Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion (IMTFI)'s First Annual Conference for Funded Researchers at UCI on November 5, 2009.

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The Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion supports research on money and technology among the world's poorest people.
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Center for Unconventional Security Affairs Earth Island’s video about Hai Vo’s work on food sustainability is now online.

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Hai Vo co-founded the Real Food Challenge (RFC) at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) after he radically transformed his health by learning to eat nutritious food.RFC is a national organization ...
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Center for Unconventional Security Affairs Thanks to all who came out last night to help us honor Mark and Whitney and the Playing for Change team with the 2009 Human Security Award. For OC folks, don’t miss the chance to see the Playing For Change Band on November 14 at the Grove in Anaheim.

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Musicians from different cultures uniting together for the common purpose of peace through music is a powerful statement. For the past four years Playing For Change has traveled the world with a mobile recording studio and cameras in search of such inspiration. ...
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Center for Unconventional Security Affairs Crystal Murphy Morgan: Fighting poverty one loan at a time

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UCI doctoral candidate Crystal Murphy Morgan is writing her dissertation on microfinance in post-conflict regions. She spent July and August in Sudan studying microfinance institutions and talking to managers and loan recipients.
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Center for Unconventional Security Affairs Former CUSA student affiliate wins Brower Youth Award!

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Hai Vo co-founded the Real Food Challenge (RFC) at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) after he radically transformed his health by learning to eat nutritious food.RFC is a national organization ...
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Center for Unconventional Security Affairs New podcast from Playing for Change. Spots still available to come see the founders next Thursday in Irvine. See www.cusa.uci.edu or email cusa@uci.edu to RSVP.

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We recorded this uplifting, joyful song during one of our travels through Spain. We had just finished a magical shoot with a percussionist from Ghana named Malik, and were hanging out at our good friend—and location manager—Brian Heinen’s flat in Barcelona.
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Center for Unconventional Security Affairs CUSA featured as a key initiative in “The Global Village Campus” of UC Irvine’s Shaping the Future campaign. http://www.uciglobalfuture.com/Pages.aspx/Center-for-Unconventional-Security-Affairs

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All of us at UC Irvine are leveraging our greatest strengths to shape the future in areas of national and global importance to benefit our community, our nation and the world. UC Irvine’s Center ...
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Center for Unconventional Security Affairs Playing for Change, whose founders will receive this year’s Human Security Award on October 22, are getting ready to kick off the PFC Band's Fall Tour.

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We're a month from kicking off the PFC Band's Fall Tour across North America, and there is a palpable sense of excitement in the air. Tickets are going fast, but there is still availability for all 22 shows of the tour. ...
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Center for Unconventional Security Affairs CUSA’s Richard Matthew co-authored a new Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Practitioners' Manual released by IISD.

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The Albertine Rift is one of the most biodiverse and ecologically unique regions of Africa. Sadly it has also been the site of some of the world's most violent conflicts in recent history. This turbulent ...
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Center for Unconventional Security Affairs The Global Leadership Certificate Program (GLCP) is designed to help students broaden their understanding of what leadership means in a global society, and gain skills necessary to make a difference and initiate change. Learn more about this program at the GLCP website or at two upcoming events: Welcome Week Informatio...n Session - September 23, 2009, 3:00-3:45 pm in Student Services II 1010A&B; Program Orientation - Thursday, October 8, 4:00-5:30 pm in Student Services II 1010 A&B.

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Center for Unconventional Security Affairs Chapter on "Environmental Security" included in the new edition of Vig and Kraft's Environmental Policy.

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The Center for Unconventional Security Affairs is the innovative hub of a global network established in 2003 to study new environmental and human security challenges.
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Center for Unconventional Security Affairs 2009 Human Security Award

"Playing for Change"

Featuring a keynote address by Mark Johnson and Whitney Burditt, Founders of Playing for Change and recipients of the 2009 Human Security Award

October 22, 2009
Beckman Center in Irvine, CA

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Carrie Chrisman Cavaiola
Carrie Chrisman Cavaiola
what an amazing honor and accomplishment.... congrats PFC!
September 11 at 9:54am
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