Beyond The Classroom
Senior NATO Officials Intensify Discussions with SAIS Students, Balkans Youth Leaders
Alarmed by mounting crisis in the Balkans, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and Deputy Secretary-General Radmila Šekerinska held urgent meetings in the region in mid-March.
Study Trip Offers an Immersive View of Colombia’s Most Pressing Challenges
During the 2025 spring break, 16 Johns Hopkins SAIS students participated in a study trip to Colombia as part of their Latin America Research capstone, visiting the cities of Bogotá and Medellín from March 15–23.
Students Examine Women’s Political Participation and Gendered Political Violence in Study Trip to Mexico
As part of the SAIS Women Lead capstone program, a team of four SAIS students traveled to Mexico City in April 2025 to examine a growing but often overlooked threat to democracy: the social media-facilitated harassment of politically active women.
SAIS Students Conduct Insightful Research on Nigeria’s Care Economy
From September 2024 to April 2025, four Johns Hopkins SAIS students participated in a multi-phase research practicum as part of the SAIS Women Lead program.
Students Explore Issues of Human Rights and Water Scarcity in Jordan
In January 2025, 13 Johns Hopkins SAIS students and one faculty member travelled to Amman, Jordan for the International Human Rights Law Clinic. This course introduces students to the analysis of human rights-related issues, with new topics of study and a new travel location each year.
In Study Trip, an Up-Close View of Rwanda’s Digital Transformation Initiative
In January 2025, 16 Johns Hopkins SAIS students and a faculty member travelled to Kigali, Rwanda for the inaugural Responsible Digital Development: Africa Study Trip.
SAIS Students Win Big at Democracy Symposium
Three first-year students from the MA in International Relations program at Johns Hopkins SAIS won all three prizes at the annual Democracy and Governance Student Research Symposium held at Georgetown University on February 12, 2025.
From D.C. and Nanjing to Singapore: Students Explore Career Paths with Alumni Support
On Jan. 11, students from SAIS’ Washington, D.C. campus and the Hopkins-Nanjing Center converged in Singapore for a five-day excursion where they attended Foresight 2025 alongside global leaders and visited cutting-edge companies in the region, hosted by SAIS alumni, to explore potential career paths.
SAIS Students and Western Balkans Youth Leaders Brief NATO Officials and Delegations
On December 10, 2024, a day when decision-makers at NATO focused on continuing instability in the Balkans, two SAIS students—together with their youth leader counterparts from across the six key Western Balkans nations—presented their Recommendations Report in person to the Alliance’s highest-level officials, NATO staff and member state delegations.
Good Governance as Peacebuilding: Lessons from Kenya
In March 2024, 16 students from Johns Hopkins SAIS, led by Professor Siniša Vuković, embarked on the Conflict Management Field Trip to Nairobi, Kenya. The immersive experience, which took place from March 18 to 22, allowed students to explore the intersection of good governance and peacebuilding in one of East Africa’s key regional players.