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SEN 2024 Winner
Thant Thura Zan & Soe Thaw Tar Kyaw Min on their essay titled “From Casinos to Criminal Networks: the Illicit Financial Flows of Southeast Asia’s Online Fraud Schemes with a Focus on Myanmar.”
CHAIR/MODERATOR: Raymond Baker (Global Financial Integrity)
Annual Global Justice Program Conference 2024
Yale University
October 24, 2024
The winners of the Eleventh Annual Amartya Sen Essay Prize Competition, 2024.
With Global Financial Integrity and Academics Stand Against Poverty, the Global Justice Program has announced three coequal winners of the 11th Annual Amartya Sen Essay Prize Competition of 2024.
Three coequal winners:
Wisdom Eissien: “Digital Shadows in Illicit Financial Flows: Unraveling Nigeria’s Cryptocurrency Paradox and Illuminating Pathways to Financial Integrity.”
Maunga Mulomba: “Logging in: Dismantling the Dark Web of Africa’s Timber Industry.”
Thant Thura Zan & Soe Thaw Tar Kyaw Min: “From Casinos to Criminal Networks: the Illicit Financial Flows of Southeast Asia’s Online Fraud Schemes with a Focus on Myanmar.”
The full paper is available at Journal of ASAP: journalasap.org/index.php/asap
More info: https://globaljustice.yale.edu
SEN 2024 Winner
Thant Thura Zan & Soe Thaw Tar Kyaw Min on their essay titled “From Casinos to Criminal Networks: the Illicit Financial Flows of Southeast Asia’s Online Fraud Schemes with a Focus on Myanmar.”
CHAIR/MODERATOR: Raymond Baker (Global Financial Integrity)
Annual Global Justice Program Conference 2024
Yale University
October 24, 2024
The winners of the Eleventh Annual Amartya Sen Essay Prize Competition, 2024.
With Global Financial Integrity and Academics Stand Against Poverty, the Global Justice Program has announced three coequal winners of the 11th Annual Amartya Sen Essay Prize Competition of 2024.
Three coequal winners:
Wisdom Eissien: “Digital Shadows in Illicit Financial Flows: Unraveling Nigeria’s Cryptocurrency Paradox and Illuminating Pathways to Financial Integrity.”
Maunga Mulomba: “Logging in: Dismantling the Dark Web of Africa’s Timber Industry.”
Thant Thura Zan & Soe Thaw Tar Kyaw Min: “From Casinos to Criminal Networks: the Illicit Financial Flows of Southeast Asia’s Online Fraud Schemes with a Focus on Myanmar.”
The full paper is available at Journal of ASAP: journalasap.org/index.php/asap
More info: https://globaljustice.yale.edu
![Sachin Chaturvedi: Live Comments on G20
Sachin Chaturvedi: Live Comments on G20
Moderated by Krishen Mehta
2023 annual Global Justice Program conference
Yale University, November 3, 2023
Professor Sachin Chaturvedi is currently Director General at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), a New Delhi-based Think-Tank. He works on issues related to development economics, involving development finance, SDGs and South-South Cooperation, apart from trade, investment and innovation linkages with special focus on WTO [https://www.ris.org.in/en/our-faculty/prof-sachin-chaturvedi]
More info: https://globaljustice.yale.edu Sachin Chaturvedi: Live Comments on G20](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7fECEiehfJQ/mqdefault.jpg)


![Isabel Ortiz on Technocratic Methods of Change and Protests
Isabel Ortiz on Technocratic Methods of Change and Protests
Moderated by Thomas Pogge
2023 annual Global Justice Program conference
Yale University, November 3, 2023
Isabel Ortiz is Director of Global Social Justice, a think-tank based in Geneva, as well as Director of the Global Social Justice Program at Joseph Stiglitzs Initiative for Policy Dialogue, based at Columbia University, New York [http://www.isabelortiz.info]
More info: https://globaljustice.yale.edu
#technocrats #protest #change #union #tradeunion #academics #lawers #humanrights #climatechange #labour Isabel Ortiz on Technocratic Methods of Change and Protests](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8hZZ6J--MVQ/mqdefault.jpg)


![Michal Apollo: Evolution of a peripheral mountain area under the influence of transport development
Michal Apollo on A Bridge Too Far: Evolution of a peripheral mountain area under the influence of transport development
Moderated by Sebastien Tabash
2023 annual Global Justice Program conference
Yale University
November 2, 2023
Michal Apollo is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, a Fellow of Yale University’s Global Justice Program, New Haven, USA, a Visiting Scholar at Hainan University – Arizona State University Joint International Tourism College, Haikou, China, and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Tourism Research Wakayama University, Japan. Michal is an enthusiastic researcher (research field: System man – high-mountain environment), traveller (visited more than 60 countries on 6 continents), mountaineer (several new climbing routes, including first ascent on two Himalaya peaks: in 2006, Masala Peak, and in 2012, Forgotten Peak), ultra-runner (among others, finisher of a 100-mile trail race), diver (AOWD), photographer (a few photo exhibitions) and science populariser (a few hundred of pop-science lectures) [https://globaljustice.yale.edu/people/michal-apollo]
More info: https://globaljustice.yale.edu
#tourism #justice #transport #periferia #development #himalayas #nepal #everest #annapurna #nationalpark #himalayas #inequality #mountains #mountaineering #trekking
This is an abridged version of a presentation that was given as part of the 12th International Conference on ‘Sustainable Tourism & Development: Risks and Opportunities In Uncertain Times. Pokhara, Nepal, 10.10.2023.
Further information can be found in the publication:
Apollo, M. (2025). A bridge too far: the dilemma of transport development in peripheral mountain areas. Journal of Tourism Futures, 11(1), 23-37. DOI: 10.1108/JTF-04-2024-0065
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/jtf-04-2024-0065/full/html Michal Apollo: Evolution of a peripheral mountain area under the influence of transport development](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9XFlTdYpZBE/mqdefault.jpg)

![Andreas Bummel on UN Parliamentary Assembly
Andreas Bummel on UN Parliamentary Assembly
Moderated by Matteo Frey
2023 annual Global Justice Program conference
Yale University
November 4, 2023
Andreas Bummel is best known for his advocacy of a world parliament. He is co-founder and Executive Director of Democracy Without Borders and the Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly. He is also one of the founders and convenors of the campaign for inclusive global governance, “We The Peoples” [https://www.andreasbummel.de]
More info: https://globaljustice.yale.edu
#unitednations #parliamentarydemocracy #advocacy #democracy #UN #justice Andreas Bummel on UN Parliamentary Assembly](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ANvsklqC448/mqdefault.jpg)

![(GJPAC21/g) Panel on Indian perspectives on innovation incentives
Yale University, November 13, 2021
Panel on Indian perspectives on innovation incentives: Sachin Chaturvedi (Research and Information System for Developing Countries [RIS]) and Surjeet Kumar (Indian politician and Member of Parliament) with Thomas Pogge (Yale University), Leena Menghaney (Médecins Sans Frontières [MSF-India]), Bhaskar Balakrishnan (RIS), Rajani Ranjan Rashmi (The Energy and Resources Institute), Ravi Srinivas (RIS), and Yogesh Pai (National Law University, Delhi).
More info: https://globaljustice.yale.edu (GJPAC21/g) Panel on Indian perspectives on innovation incentives](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Af6ffWt4h5Q/mqdefault.jpg)