Launched in 2012, SPP grew from two existing master's degrees developed by the foundation Professor of Public Policy at CEU, Diane Stone with Agnes Batory and Uwe Puetter.
SPP is committed to “construct[ing] a community of ‘purpose beyond power.’”[1] Founding Dean Wolfgang Reinicke believes that “the traditional model of Western democracy is in ‘deep crisis’”[2] and founded SPP to “do our part to improve governance” through multidisciplinary research and a practice-oriented curriculum to educate future changemakers.
[4] SPP’s advisory board is composed of Deepa Narayan, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Ghassan Salamé, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Javier Solana, Yasmin Sooka, and Alexander G.
Students can choose concentrations in development, global media and communication, governance, security and higher education.
In a policy lab, small student teams work together to produce original research for an external client like UNHCR and OSCE.
“The program equips graduates with the conceptual knowledge and hard skills that are necessary for understanding and decisively intervening in contemporary transnational policy problems, from climate change to international terrorism or financial regulatory failure.”[6] GPA organizes academically rigorous and policy-relevant certificate courses.
[10] Courses include “Reversing the Resource Curse” co-organized with the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI)[11] and a political advisor course for Eastern Partners co-organized with the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA), the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).
Launched in 2013, it is designed to inspire a new cohort of practitioners committed to working both in the public interest and at the forefront of global policy.
Each year the Shattuck Center hosts the Lemkin Reunion, a gathering of policymakers involved in responding to atrocity crimes and assess the lessons they learned.
[17] It is named in honor of Raphael Lemkin, the Polish lawyer who lost his family in the Holocaust and first coined the word genocide.
[19] The Aleppo Project is developing crowd-source mapping software in cooperation with the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York.