Politics and Social Justice

A look at SIPA’s past, and future, at the intersection of policy and the environment.

For years, Putin has been trying to convince the world that Russia is justified in invading Ukraine. Can he succeed?

The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies has inaugurated a new pilot program that will expand curricula at SIPA and Columbia and encourage female, BIPOC, and first-generation students to consider and pursue professional opportunities in national security and related fields.

The Knight First Amendment Institute urges the court to reject arguments that would prevent government from regulating to protect free speech online.

Scholarship recipients will use their social work training to improve mental health or social and political conditions in their home countries.

This project aims to reduce COVID-19 related grief in Harlem’s Black community by partnering Columbia researchers with local faith leaders and other community leaders to address intense and pervasive grief that has emerged as a result of the pandemic.

The researchers also found the bias could be reversed if study participants were given the chance to observe the competency of their peers firsthand.