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Research Associate David K. Bohl was a panelist at the 38th International Symposium on Forecasting in Boulder, Colorado. His session, “Global Forecasting: the International Futures Model” was part of the forecasting practice session, which introduced participants to the IFs model. The Pardee Center was a contributing sponsor of the symposium.
June 2018
Project Manager Whitney Doran and Research Associate II Andrew Scott presented on the Diplometrics project in DU Professor Keith Gehring’s undergraduate International Futures course. They introduced the goals of the Diplometrics Project and showed students where they can access the Pardee Center’s public Diplometrics datasets and visualization platforms.
June 2018
Director Jonathan D. Moyer presented to the Washington DC office of USAID’s Latin America and Caribbean regional office on ongoing analysis of education, labor, violence, and migration in Central America.
May, 2018
On April 4, Director Jonathan Moyer presented a paper on “Human Trafficking, War, and Social Disruption and Change” at the International Studies Association 2018 Annual Convention in San Francisco, CA. The paper is co-authored by Assistant Professor Oliver Kaplan and Pardee Center Assistant Director of Research Operations Mickey Rafa.
Director Jonathan Moyer, Research Consultant Alex Porter, Research Associate II Andrew Scott, and Lead Systems Developer Jose Solorzano visited Guatemala and Honduras in support of the Pardee Center’s ongoing work in partnership with USAID Latin America and the Caribbean Office of Regional Sustainable Development (LAC/RSD) and Mathematica Policy Research. These research efforts seek to understa
Research System Developer Hedden has spent much of 2018 serving as a coordinating lead author for the “Outlooks” section of the UN Environmental Programme’s (UNEP) sixth Global Environmental Outlook report (GEO-6). The goal of the report is to understand the current state and trends of the environment, and to inform the international community on policies to meet environmental objectives.
On January 25, Mickey Rafa taught a hands-on session to Professor Aaron Schneider's Data Analysis for Development class, introducing graduate students to the International Futures (IFs) model and how it can be used to explore historical data, discover relationships among variables, and build quantitative models.
On April 20, Mickey Rafa presented “Using Nighttime Lights for Poverty Analysis in Uganda” at the Spring Meeting of the Colorado-Wyoming Chapter of the American Statistical Association in Boulder, Colorado. This research, which was sponsored by The Learning Contract (USAID-Uganda), explores the effectiveness of nighttime lights in evaluating poverty at small geographic scales.
In May 2018, Director Jonathan D. Moyer travelled to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for a meeting of the ENACT Index Technical Reference Group. The group continues its work mitigating the impact of transnational organized crime on development, governance, security, and the rule of law in Africa.