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The Albright Institute’s annual Public Dialogue with Secretary Albright will focus on understanding the demands of advancing beyond resettlement into rebuilding society.

Bob Kitchen, Director, Emergency Preparedness and Response, International Rescue Committee presented information on the scale and scope of the international refugee crisis and what the IRC is doing to address this pressing concern.

Gazmend Kapllani, Ph.D., Author - Teaching, Creative Writing and European History, Emerson College, discussed his personal experience as a person navigating across international borders and the impact that borders have on our perception of the world and ourselves.

Jennifer Leaning, Ph.D., Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health shared with Fellows information regarding the factors fueling the global refugee crisis, as well as the scale of the crisis, with a particular emphasis on the case of Syria.

Larry Rosenwald, Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of American Literature; Professor of English, Wellesley College, discussed how the imaginative process is an important source of change.

by Bob Kitchen, Director for Emergency Preparedness and Response, International Rescue Committee

by Professor Katherine Marshall '67, Georgetown University

by Sahana Dharmapuri, Independent Gender Advisor; Katherine Blakeslee '65, Global Programs Advisor, National Academies of Science; Sally Engle Murray '66, Senior Scholar, WCW

by Bonnie Docherty, Lecturer on Law, Arms Division, International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law School; Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch