Twitter, Tear Gas, and the New Global Protest Movements
A panel of experts examine the global age of mass protests and street politics.
Aug
5
Reuters
About This Event
From Chicago to Cairo and Caracas to Conakry, hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets to call attention to economic disparities and inequalities, demand civil and minority rights, or protest police and regime brutality. As protests continue to accelerate in the wake of the pandemic, and with the global economy in the worst downturn since the Great Depression, are we entering an era of explosive change? Join us virtually as the Chicago Council on Global Affairs convenes an expert panel to discuss this new global age of mass protests and street politics.
About the Speakers
Nesrine Malik
Columnist, The Guardian
Nesrine Malik is a columnist for The Guardian, and a panelist on BBC's Dateline London. She is the author of the book We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent. Her writing—focusing on Islamophobia, racial politics, freedom of speech, and Sudanese politics—has also appeared in Foreign Policy and The Correspondent.
Khaled Mansour
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Arab Reform Initiative
Khaled Mansour formerly served as the executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a leading organization dedicated to advancing human rights in Egypt. An experienced writer and journalist, Mansour also held several leadership positions within the United Nations system for over a decade. He holds degrees in engineering, archaeology, sociology, and international relations.
Aislinn Pulley
Cofounder, Black Lives Matter Chicago
Aislinn Pulley currently serves as co-executive director of the Chicago Torture Justice Center. Additionally, she was an organizer with We Charge Genocide and is a founding member of Insight Arts—a cultural nonprofit using art as a tool for social change. She's also a founder of Visibility Now, a young women’s performance ensemble dedicated to ending sexual assault.
Lucía Dammert
Professor, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Lucía Dammert is a professor of international relations at Universidad de Santiago de Chile, a global fellow with the Latin American program of the Woodrow Wilson Center, and serves at the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters of the UN Secretary General. Formerly, she has experience working with the governments of Chile, Argentina, Perú, and México.
Erol Yayboke
Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, CSIS
Prior to joining CSIS, Erol Yayboke held several positions with the 2016 Clinton presidential campaign and served as a program and research manager on the Evidence for Policy Design team at the Center for International Development at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Yayboke holds an MPAff from the LBJ School of Public Affairs and a BBA in international business from the University of Texas at Austin.