Kerry Crawford

Please check out the first three papers in the new MPI series, released this week as we commemorate the 25th anniversary of UNSCR 1325 and the founding of Women, Peace and Security. I am humbled to be included in this first tranche of papers.

You are so incredibly qualified and talented, and the chutes and ladders are real.

YouTube video by CATMusic Crashing Down

Co-author’s kiddo is dabbling in DJing and made this track. Give it a listen. I’m entirely biased but I think it’s pretty great. m.youtube.com/watch?v=mfi3...

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Booker: Do you think we got the right to vote for women because a bunch of men on the House floor got together and said “on the count of three, women get the right to vote..” That’s not how it happened… Change doesn’t come from Washington. It comes to Washington.

I’m a security scholar. I read, write, and lecture on horrific things on a daily basis. I don’t lose my composure in class. Ever. But today, I had to take a pause and a breath. We have lost and are still losing so much.

Today I had to explain to my students that they can no longer access the USIP website for their human security case study project because it is still blocking all traffic. Decades of research and progress, my brilliant colleagues’ work, my work, all in the name of peace and security is just…gone.

A Statement by Teachers College, Columbia University Faculty A Statement by Teachers College, Columbia University Faculty The Attack on American Education, from our Perspective as Teachers College Faculty March 19, 2025 We are a group of Teachers College facult...

@dandrezner.bsky.social Thanks for posting the CU Poli Sci response to the Trump letter on your blog. Here's one from across the street at Teachers College. Would be great if you'd share!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

USIP’s home page as of 8:57pm eastern time.

Just…wow.

Sharing letter w/4 Columbia colleagues @pagefortna.bsky.social @vickymurillo.bsky.social Allison Carnegie & Turku Isiksel in which we speak only for ourselves, imagining how we would respond to the govt. This is *not* an official university statement. Grateful to @dandrezner.bsky.social for posting.

GUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia. Here is How We Would Respond. Five Columbia University political scientists offer their unofficial response to the Trump administration's demands on their university.

This is how it’s done: @profsaunders.bsky.social and several colleagues at Columbia have suggested text for their university to respond to the Trump administration. Kudos to @dandrezner.bsky.social for posting danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...

DOGE Visit to USIP On the afternoon of Friday, March 14, 2025, several members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), arrived at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) unannounced accompanied by two FBI...

A better update! www.usip.org/press/2025/0...

Exactly my thought.

Despicable.

Proud to be an AAUP member. Fellow faculty, it’s a good time to join. ✊🏼

Thank you. I couldn’t get through to your office this morning so I’m glad to see this.

What are we teaching our students if we refuse to stand up for the importance of colleges and universities?

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

🧵 Friends, a thread speaking just for myself. I joined Columbia in Jan 2024. A lot I still don't know, but some is crystal clear. Most important is what's not in the news: Columbia students and faculty show great capacity for respectfully and thoughtfully engaging difficult topics every day. 1/

If higher ed goes under, I’m switching lanes. The democrats need someone who can actually read the room.

In all those fundraising emails, when they said “send us $10 and help us fight back”, the Dems really meant…? 🤦🏻‍♀️

Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

Protesting and boycotting are not illegal actions, but leveraging public office for financial gain is.

Now, more than ever, conversations about making higher ed (and every profession) accessible are so important. The vignette contributors are 💯. This project was the culmination of so many real talks. 📚 More good trouble is forthcoming in 2025.

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

What say you House and Senate Republicans? Check your souls and see if they’re there still there. 🇺🇦🇺🇦

Thank you for getting out there and speaking truth to power.

USAID What’s Happening & Why it Matters

What can you do about the assault on USAID?

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