GLOBAL LEADERSHIP | The 2021 Concordia Annual Summit

This week, Mrs. Laura Bush was awarded the 2021 Concordia Leadership Award for her inspirational work toward the causes of freedom and women’s rights around the globe at the 2021 Concordia Annual Summit. Also during the summit, Bush Institute Executive Director Holly Kuzmich led a panel discussion on the latest achievements by the Go Further public-private partnership to save lives from cervical cancer in sub-Saharan Africa.
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IN THE NEWS | DFW Is Becoming the Capital of America's Heartland

In an op-ed for The Dallas Morning News, Cullum Clark, Director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative, writes why Dallas-Fort Worth's metropolitan area epitomizes the new trends in American urbanism.
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VETERAN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM | Lessons From General James Mattis

Last month, the 2021 Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program convened in Dallas for its third module, focused on vision and communication in leadership. Secretary Robert McDonald, the Bush Institute April and Jay Graham Fellow, moderated a conversation with General James Mattis, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, in which he provided our Scholars with valuable lessons on leadership.
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TUNE IN | The Impossible State Podcast

Lindsay Lloyd, Bradford M. Freeman Director of the Human Freedom Initiative at the Bush Institute, and Victor Cha, Senior Fellow in the Human Freedom Initiative, joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies' podcast The Impossible State to discuss the human rights issues in North Korea.
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