Stuart Shulman, assistant professor of political science and founder and director of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program at UMass Amherst, was an invited speaker at University of Haifa in Israel. His presentation, "Coding the Twittersphere," explored how and why posts on micro-blogging forums such as Twitter should be gathered, filtered, searched, and analyzed.

Daniel Glaun ’12 (Political Science) and Nicholas Shamey ’13 (Political Science) were selected to represent the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Department of Political Science at the Student Conference on US Affairs (SCUSA) at West Point in November 2011.

On November 1st to 4th, Professor Peter Haas participated in the creation of the UN's Global Environment Outlook 5, a periodic report that details the global state of the enviroment.  Started in 1995 in an effort to document environmental issues, these reports are created by various groups and prestigious experts in enviromental policy. Professor Haas has a sustained interest in international relations, especially as they relate to enviromental politics and controversies.

To see the UN's GEO's website, please see this page.

For nearly eight hundred years, and most recently three bloody decades, Northern Ireland/the north of Ireland was characterized by violent and politically-charged conflicts over the constitutional status of the territory. While the ceasefires and political peace talks regularly made the news, a series of non-violent, artistic demonstrations were often overlooked. According to Leah Wing, a faculty member in the Legal Studies program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, nearly 2,000 murals have been constructed across the region in the past forty years.