Robert A. Rubinstein, professor of anthropology and international relations in the Maxwell School, recently co-authored the article “‘Material Support’ U.S. anti-terrorism law threatens human rights and academic freedom,” which was published in Anthropology Today in February.
The federal law prohibiting the ‘provision of material support or resources’ to terrorist groups does not require proof that a defendant actually intended to support terrorism and is vague about what counts as material support. Broad application of the law already threatens the ability of researchers to carry out studies vital to understanding conflict situations, abridges academic freedom and human rights, and has the paradoxical consequence of prohibiting studies to understand terrorist organizations or to help transform violent conflicts to constructive political processes.
The article is attached and can be found at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2012.00847.x/pdf
Five Newhouse School seniors were among 19 public relations students who took part in the third Challenge for Emerging Leaders, held Nov. 8-10 at Lubin House in New York City. The challenge, sponsored by The Plank Center for Leadership in…
The final installment of the Social Media & Democracy seminar series will examine the impact of social media on the 2018 midterm elections. The event will be held Nov. 14 at 6 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3….
How do bias, hate and extremism form? How we can counter them? And what can we learn from extremist groups? Authors Bob Pearson and Haroon Ullah will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Nov. 7 to explore these…
Jim Olson ’91, chief communications officer at Steward Health Care, the world’s largest private, physician-led health care network, will visit the Newhouse School on Monday, Nov. 12, as the Social Commerce Days Visiting Executive. He will present “Storytelling in the…
Last summer, five Syracuse University students were selected to participate in the highly competitive Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) junior summer institutes. Anna Nguyen, who is majoring in public health in the Falk College and policy studies in the…
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