The Center for Global Dialogue

11/10/2018

Check in with us for the last installment of our four-part blog series, The High Cost of Incarceration: Scandinavian Alternatives. Dr. Haslund asks: is the Danish model applicable to California?

By instinct, I’m an optimist. And I am painfully aware that optimists can easily engage in self-deception and wishful thinking.  So I admit to being an optimist but claim to be afflicted by pragmatism and an awareness of the need for skepticism. Skeptics have warned that the Scandinavian model ca...

09/10/2018

Our new website has been published! Visit us at https://www.centerforglobaldialogue.org/
where you can find the latest blog series posted by Dr. Peter Haslund: A Study of Scandinavian Incarceration Systems. While you're there, RSVP for our Open House this Saturday!

Global affairs are our business.  We believe that each of us needs to have access to information about what’s going on in the world. The process of globalization means that what happens around the world on a daily basis affects us locally…on a daily basis.  

01/27/2017

Welcome to two wonderful volunteers from Sweden, Johanna Smeds and F***y Hansson.

05/20/2016

An excellent public discussion of some of the root causes and current trends in the global refugee crisis -- UCSB's Richard Falk, Katja Siepmann, and Clint Betkey at the Faulkner Gallery on May 19

05/05/2016

May 19, 2016 EVENT

05/05/2016

UPCOMING EVENT:
"Global Refugee Explosion - Impact: Present and Future"

May 19, 2016 --- 6:30-8:30PM
Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library
ADMISSION FREE

with:
- Richard Falk, Senior Fellow, Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, UC Santa Barbara

- Katja Siepmann, PhD student, Global & International Studies, UC Santa Barbara

- Clint Betkey, PhD student, Global & International Studies, UC Santa Barbara

04/13/2015

The notorious, yet influential, German jurist, Carl Schmitt famously insisted that ‘a right of exception’ was the core reality of national sovereignty. By this he meant that internal law could be...

03/24/2015

recent Center for Global Dialogue speaker, Ambassador Juha Markkanen (Consul General of Finland), interviewed on our TVSB program 'Global Dialogue'

http://www.centerforglobaldialogue.org/global-dialogue-finland-consul-general-juha-p-markkanen/

Global Dialogue – Finland Consul General, Juha P. Markkanen Media, TV Programming - global dialogue, interview, SBTV - March 13, 2015

03/24/2015

one of two recent Center for Global Dialogue interviews on TVSB: UCSB Professor Mayfair Yang on the establishment of a Confucius Institute here -
http://www.centerforglobaldialogue.org/global-dialogue-ucsb-professor-mayfair-yang/

Global Dialogue – UCSB Professor Mayfair Yang Media, TV Programming - global dialogue, interview, SBTV - March 13, 2015