Schar School of Policy and Government

Lech Walesa would like two things to happen: Super power nations need to restore world order, and the world’s youth needs to become leaders for change.

George Mason University on April 19 hosted a daylong symposium to examine ways to eradicate the opioid crisis in Northern Virginia, an event that gathered stakeholders from around the state and federal government, including Gov. Ralph Northam and U.S. representatives Barbara Comstock (VA-10) and Gerald Connolly (VA-11).

Gregory Koblentz, director of the Schar School graduate programs in biodefense, explains why it will be so difficult for investigators to definitively say a chemical attack actually did happen in Douma, and if it did, who was responsible. Read more in Foreign Policy Magazine.

Gregory Koblentz, director of the Schar School of Policy and Government’s graduate programs in biodefense, is named by Tom Inglesby, Director of the Center for Health Security of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as one of the top potential PhD supervisors in the biodefense and global health security fields.

The recent attack on Atlanta’s computer system disrupted service in at least five of the city’s 13 departments. Civil workers were reduced to the pre-computer era of longhand.

Trevor Thrall op-eds that America’s track record of foreign intervention since 9/11 makes it clear that leaving Syria is easy to wish but hard to do. Read more in NY Daily News.

Frank Shafroth of George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government op-eds about how municipalities are unprepared to respond to Ransomware attacks, and protective steps that can be taken in this new era of digital extortion. Read more in Governing.

During her testimony before the U.S. Helsinki Commission in late March, Schar School of Policy and Government professor Louise Shelley told members of Congress how the opioid epidemic in Europe differs from that in the United States.

Schar School professor Steven Pearlstein op-eds that the arrangement between Amazon and the Post Office is a great deal for both parties. Read more in the Washington Post.

A.C. Grayling, renowned British author, professor of philosophy and the Master of the New College of Humanities, London, was the guest speaker at the third event of the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy and International Affairs. Held on the evening of April 3, 2018 at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C., the event was hosted by General Michael V. Hayden, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government, and attracted a full house of George Mason University faculty, staff, and students.