CLIMATE CHANGE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY INQUIRY The Center for Policy Studies at CEU is offering a summer university course on 'Climate change: an interdisciplinary inquiry' in Budapest between June 30-July 6, 2008 directed by Thomas C. Heller, Stanford University Professor with resource persons Bert Metz, Nebojsa Nakicenovic and Diana Urge-Vorsatz. All faculty members have made significant contributions to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, the former vice president of the US.
The purpose of this course is to understand why the current impasse in the negotiations and implementation of climate change measures has occurred and explore the various options proposed to escape from this situation. In so doing, the course will examine carefully the detailed, transparent records compiled in recent years in this field to explore the developing roles of non-state organizations (non-profits, industry groups, the scientific community); the comparative strengths and weaknesses of national, regional and multilateral institutions in the design and implementation of environmental regimes; and the character of international negotiation processes and analytical methods used therein. The main discussion topics will be international regimes, trading and environmental markets, IPCC, transportation, Stern report and climate legislation and litigation. The course is geared towards graduate students, researchers at think tanks and academia, and the broader policy community (advanced professionals) concerned with multilateral institutions and international regimes of climate change. More information about the course and the application procedure can be found at http://www.sun.ceu.hu/climate. ********** INTEGRITY REFORM: STRATEGIES AND APPROACHES The Center for Policy Studies at CEU, in co-operation with Tiri-Making Integrity Work, is offering a summer university course on "Integrity Reform: Strategies and Approaches" in Budapest between June 30 and July 9, 2008. The course will familiarize participants with core ingredients to a strategic and critical approach for effective and sustainable corruption control and organizational integrity. Drawing on interdisciplinary academic perspectives and lessons learned from practice, the course represents one of the few targeted, applied and yet conceptually grounded efforts currently available internationally for the analysis of corruption and anti-corruption, straddling law, economic, public administration, public sector ethics, as well as politics, statistical and ethnographic approaches. In addition to joint sessions, course participants will attend intensive Policy Labs devoted to the in-depth analysis of some of these issues that will allow for further specialization and expert discussion in a small group format: 1) Applied Legal Skills for Integrity Reform and Anti-Corruption; 2) Fiscal Transparency and Corruption Risk; 3) Governance of Natural Resource Revenues; 4) Integrity in Reconstruction Aid and Programming. Participants will be selected both among practitioners and academics interested in incorporating the topic into curricula at their home institutions. More information about the course and the application procedure can be found at http://www.sun.ceu.hu/integrity **********
