Displacement in a Changing World Event Series Returns to Campus
Seventy-five years ago, the world made a promise to protect the millions of displaced people. Is it still keeping it?
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Seventy-five years ago, the world made a promise to protect the millions of displaced people. Is it still keeping it?

When the national Chilean government directed every municipality in the country to write a climate change action plan, small teams across the country faced the same problem: a mandate, but no means to carry it out. Here is how three communities and a team of Columbia and Chilean researchers worked side by side to get it done.
Teachers College’s OreOluwa Badaki follows a song, a street food and a city square in Rio de Janeiro to ask how people of the diaspora stay rooted without standing still.
Emerging Scholar Gerawork Teferra Gizaw traces the history of human movement to ask why today's world has closed its doors to people moving to survive.
Columbia Global is thrilled to announce its 2026 Columbia Global Scholars cohort!
Alumni strengthen send-off events with advice and support.