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CNN
9 hours ago
- Health
- CNN
While North Korea denied Covid-19 cases, the virus was widespread and barely treated, report says
For the first time since the global outbreak of Covid-19, researchers claim to have pierced North Korea's ironclad information blockade to reveal how some ordinary citizens endured the pandemic. While Pyongyang insisted for more than two years that not a single case had breached its hermetically sealed borders, a new report paints a far darker picture, of a deadly wave of largely untreated illness that swept the country, but was barely talked about. The 26-page report also details testimony of deaths by counterfeit or self-prescribed medicine, and official denial leading to a culture of dishonesty. 'Doctors were lying to the patients. Village leaders were lying to the party. And the government was lying to everybody,' said Dr. Victor Cha, one of the report's lead authors. Released by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in partnership with the George W. Bush Institute, the paper is based on 100 in-person interviews conducted discreetly inside North Korea between September and December 2023. The testimony – gathered through informal, conversational methods known as 'snowball sampling' – span all nine provinces and the capital Pyongyang. The result is what the authors describe as 'arguably the first glimpse' inside the country's most extreme period of isolation in modern history. Snowball sampling is a recruitment method often used when studying hidden or hard-to-access populations. Researchers begin by identifying one or two trusted participants, who then refer them to others in their networks. Over time, the pool of participants 'snowballs,' growing through word-of-mouth and personal trust. While it lacks the scientific rigor of more conventional surveys, this method is often the only way of getting raw, subjective testimony from people living in repressive and totalitarian states, such as North Korea. Cha, a former White House adviser and Korea Chair at CSIS, said the findings were evidence of 'a total failure on the part of the government to do anything for the people during the pandemic.' 'Everybody was effectively lying to everybody during the pandemic,' he said. 'Because of a government policy that said there was no COVID in the country. When they knew there was.' Cha said Pyongyang's policy of denial didn't just attempt to deceive the outside world – it forced North Korea's more than 26 million people into mutually enforced silence. When North Korea closed its borders in early 2020 – as the virus made its way across the globe, on its way to infecting and killing millions – state media claimed it had kept the virus out entirely; no infections, no deaths. The world was skeptical. But the regime's total control over borders and information made independent verification nearly impossible. Two years later, North Korean television aired scenes of a military parade in Pyongyang. Crowds filled Kim Il Sung Square. Masks were scarce. Not long after, reports of a mysterious 'fever outbreak' began appearing in state media. By early May, Pyongyang confirmed its first Covid-19 case. Three months later, it declared victory – claiming just 74 deaths out of nearly 5 million 'fever' cases. But according to the new survey, Covid-19 had by that point been circulating widely inside the country for at least two years. Ninety-two percent of respondents said they or someone close to them had been infected. Most said 2020 and 2021 – not 2022 – were when outbreaks were at their worst. 'Fevers were happening everywhere, and many people were dying within a few days,' one participant reported. Another, a soldier, described a military communications battalion in which more than half the unit – about 400 soldiers – fell ill by late 2021. In prisons, schools, and food factories, respondents described people collapsing or missing days of work due to fever. Even under normal conditions, the country's isolated and underfunded healthcare system struggles to meet the needs of its people. But a pandemic-level event, coupled with official denial and an initial refusal to accept foreign vaccines, left people dangerously exposed, the report claims. With virtually no access to testing, diagnoses came from Covid-19 symptoms that most of the world had grown familiar with: fever, cough, shortness of breath. Some respondents said even these symptoms were taboo. One woman recalled being told by a doctor that if she said she had those symptoms, 'you will be taken away.' Another said bluntly: 'They told me it's a cold, but I knew it was COVID.' In place of official care, citizens turned to folk medicine: saltwater rinses, garlic necklaces, even opium injections. One woman said her child died after being given the wrong dosage of adult medication. Another respondent described neighbors overdosing on counterfeit Chinese drugs. In total, one in five respondents reported seeing or hearing of deaths due to misuse of medication or fake pharmaceuticals. Protective gear was nearly nonexistent. Just 8% of respondents said they received masks from the government. Many made their own, reused them, or bought them at black-market prices. One mother said her children had to sew their own because adult-issued masks were too big. Cha says the failure was not just in what the government withheld, but in how it blocked the kind of grassroots survival that had helped North Korea's 'resourceful' citizens endure past disasters – including the 1990s famine, known inside the country as the 'Arduous March.' That crisis gave rise to private marketplaces, which emerged as a lifeline when the state-run ration system collapsed. During the pandemic, however, those markets were shut down – officially to contain the virus, but also, Cha suggests, to limit the spread of information. 'They didn't allow the people to find coping mechanisms,' he said. 'Just shut them down, quarantine them, lock them down – and then provided them with nothing.' The suffering extended beyond illness. With internal travel banned and markets shuttered, food shortages became acute. Eighty-one percent of those surveyed said they faced hunger. Respondents spoke of trying to survive quarantine periods with no rations, no access to medicine, and no way to seek help. The rationing system, long unreliable, collapsed entirely under the weight of the lockdown. 'If you didn't have emergency food at home, it was really tough,' one soldier said. Eighty-seven percent of respondents said they had no access to Covid tests at any point in the pandemic. Fewer than 20% received any vaccine — and most of those were administered only after Pyongyang acknowledged the outbreak in 2022 and accepted limited Chinese assistance. Soldiers reported receiving three shots as part of a campaign later that year. Civilian respondents described group vaccinations administered at schools or workplaces – months after the rest of the world had rolled out full vaccination programs. Even the basic act of reporting illness became a risk. According to the report, local clinics and neighborhood watch units were required to report cases to central authorities. But only 41% of respondents ever received any information about those reports. Most said the results were either never shared or filtered through rumor. One respondent said: 'I realized that serious illnesses and deaths were not reported because they were told not to call it COVID.' This system of denial created what Cha calls a 'double lie': the government lied to its people, and the people lied to each other and to their government – each trying to avoid quarantine, censure, or worse. The survey also documented a deep well of frustration with the regime's response – and its propaganda. One participant said: 'Our country can build nuclear weapons, but they can't give us vaccines.' Others noted the contrast between their conditions and what they heard about other countries: free testing, access to medicine, the ability to travel. In one of the report's most striking findings, 83% of respondents said their experience did not align with what the government or its leader Kim Jong Un told them. More than half said they explicitly disbelieved the regime's Covid-related announcements. 'When I saw the Supreme Leader touting his love for the people, while so many were dying without medicine,' one respondent said, 'I thought of all the people who didn't survive.'
CNN
9 hours ago
- Health
- CNN
While North Korea denied Covid-19 cases, the virus was widespread and barely treated, report says
For the first time since the global outbreak of Covid-19, researchers claim to have pierced North Korea's ironclad information blockade to reveal how some ordinary citizens endured the pandemic. While Pyongyang insisted for more than two years that not a single case had breached its hermetically sealed borders, a new report paints a far darker picture, of a deadly wave of largely untreated illness that swept the country, but was barely talked about. The 26-page report also details testimony of deaths by counterfeit or self-prescribed medicine, and official denial leading to a culture of dishonesty. 'Doctors were lying to the patients. Village leaders were lying to the party. And the government was lying to everybody,' said Dr. Victor Cha, one of the report's lead authors. Released by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in partnership with the George W. Bush Institute, the paper is based on 100 in-person interviews conducted discreetly inside North Korea between September and December 2023. The testimony – gathered through informal, conversational methods known as 'snowball sampling' – span all nine provinces and the capital Pyongyang. The result is what the authors describe as 'arguably the first glimpse' inside the country's most extreme period of isolation in modern history. Snowball sampling is a recruitment method often used when studying hidden or hard-to-access populations. Researchers begin by identifying one or two trusted participants, who then refer them to others in their networks. Over time, the pool of participants 'snowballs,' growing through word-of-mouth and personal trust. While it lacks the scientific rigor of more conventional surveys, this method is often the only way of getting raw, subjective testimony from people living in repressive and totalitarian states, such as North Korea. Cha, a former White House adviser and Korea Chair at CSIS, said the findings were evidence of 'a total failure on the part of the government to do anything for the people during the pandemic.' 'Everybody was effectively lying to everybody during the pandemic,' he said. 'Because of a government policy that said there was no COVID in the country. When they knew there was.' Cha said Pyongyang's policy of denial didn't just attempt to deceive the outside world – it forced North Korea's more than 26 million people into mutually enforced silence. When North Korea closed its borders in early 2020 – as the virus made its way across the globe, on its way to infecting and killing millions – state media claimed it had kept the virus out entirely; no infections, no deaths. The world was skeptical. But the regime's total control over borders and information made independent verification nearly impossible. Two years later, North Korean television aired scenes of a military parade in Pyongyang. Crowds filled Kim Il Sung Square. Masks were scarce. Not long after, reports of a mysterious 'fever outbreak' began appearing in state media. By early May, Pyongyang confirmed its first Covid-19 case. Three months later, it declared victory – claiming just 74 deaths out of nearly 5 million 'fever' cases. But according to the new survey, Covid-19 had by that point been circulating widely inside the country for at least two years. Ninety-two percent of respondents said they or someone close to them had been infected. Most said 2020 and 2021 – not 2022 – were when outbreaks were at their worst. 'Fevers were happening everywhere, and many people were dying within a few days,' one participant reported. Another, a soldier, described a military communications battalion in which more than half the unit – about 400 soldiers – fell ill by late 2021. In prisons, schools, and food factories, respondents described people collapsing or missing days of work due to fever. Even under normal conditions, the country's isolated and underfunded healthcare system struggles to meet the needs of its people. But a pandemic-level event, coupled with official denial and an initial refusal to accept foreign vaccines, left people dangerously exposed, the report claims. With virtually no access to testing, diagnoses came from Covid-19 symptoms that most of the world had grown familiar with: fever, cough, shortness of breath. Some respondents said even these symptoms were taboo. One woman recalled being told by a doctor that if she said she had those symptoms, 'you will be taken away.' Another said bluntly: 'They told me it's a cold, but I knew it was COVID.' In place of official care, citizens turned to folk medicine: saltwater rinses, garlic necklaces, even opium injections. One woman said her child died after being given the wrong dosage of adult medication. Another respondent described neighbors overdosing on counterfeit Chinese drugs. In total, one in five respondents reported seeing or hearing of deaths due to misuse of medication or fake pharmaceuticals. Protective gear was nearly nonexistent. Just 8% of respondents said they received masks from the government. Many made their own, reused them, or bought them at black-market prices. One mother said her children had to sew their own because adult-issued masks were too big. Cha says the failure was not just in what the government withheld, but in how it blocked the kind of grassroots survival that had helped North Korea's 'resourceful' citizens endure past disasters – including the 1990s famine, known inside the country as the 'Arduous March.' That crisis gave rise to private marketplaces, which emerged as a lifeline when the state-run ration system collapsed. During the pandemic, however, those markets were shut down – officially to contain the virus, but also, Cha suggests, to limit the spread of information. 'They didn't allow the people to find coping mechanisms,' he said. 'Just shut them down, quarantine them, lock them down – and then provided them with nothing.' The suffering extended beyond illness. With internal travel banned and markets shuttered, food shortages became acute. Eighty-one percent of those surveyed said they faced hunger. Respondents spoke of trying to survive quarantine periods with no rations, no access to medicine, and no way to seek help. The rationing system, long unreliable, collapsed entirely under the weight of the lockdown. 'If you didn't have emergency food at home, it was really tough,' one soldier said. Eighty-seven percent of respondents said they had no access to Covid tests at any point in the pandemic. Fewer than 20% received any vaccine — and most of those were administered only after Pyongyang acknowledged the outbreak in 2022 and accepted limited Chinese assistance. Soldiers reported receiving three shots as part of a campaign later that year. Civilian respondents described group vaccinations administered at schools or workplaces – months after the rest of the world had rolled out full vaccination programs. Even the basic act of reporting illness became a risk. According to the report, local clinics and neighborhood watch units were required to report cases to central authorities. But only 41% of respondents ever received any information about those reports. Most said the results were either never shared or filtered through rumor. One respondent said: 'I realized that serious illnesses and deaths were not reported because they were told not to call it COVID.' This system of denial created what Cha calls a 'double lie': the government lied to its people, and the people lied to each other and to their government – each trying to avoid quarantine, censure, or worse. The survey also documented a deep well of frustration with the regime's response – and its propaganda. One participant said: 'Our country can build nuclear weapons, but they can't give us vaccines.' Others noted the contrast between their conditions and what they heard about other countries: free testing, access to medicine, the ability to travel. In one of the report's most striking findings, 83% of respondents said their experience did not align with what the government or its leader Kim Jong Un told them. More than half said they explicitly disbelieved the regime's Covid-related announcements. 'When I saw the Supreme Leader touting his love for the people, while so many were dying without medicine,' one respondent said, 'I thought of all the people who didn't survive.'
CNN
9 hours ago
- Health
- CNN
While North Korea denied Covid-19 cases, the virus was widespread and barely treated, report says
For the first time since the global outbreak of Covid-19, researchers claim to have pierced North Korea's ironclad information blockade to reveal how some ordinary citizens endured the pandemic. While Pyongyang insisted for more than two years that not a single case had breached its hermetically sealed borders, a new report paints a far darker picture, of a deadly wave of largely untreated illness that swept the country, but was barely talked about. The 26-page report also details testimony of deaths by counterfeit or self-prescribed medicine, and official denial leading to a culture of dishonesty. 'Doctors were lying to the patients. Village leaders were lying to the party. And the government was lying to everybody,' said Dr. Victor Cha, one of the report's lead authors. Released by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in partnership with the George W. Bush Institute, the paper is based on 100 in-person interviews conducted discreetly inside North Korea between September and December 2023. The testimony – gathered through informal, conversational methods known as 'snowball sampling' – span all nine provinces and the capital Pyongyang. The result is what the authors describe as 'arguably the first glimpse' inside the country's most extreme period of isolation in modern history. Snowball sampling is a recruitment method often used when studying hidden or hard-to-access populations. Researchers begin by identifying one or two trusted participants, who then refer them to others in their networks. Over time, the pool of participants 'snowballs,' growing through word-of-mouth and personal trust. While it lacks the scientific rigor of more conventional surveys, this method is often the only way of getting raw, subjective testimony from people living in repressive and totalitarian states, such as North Korea. Cha, a former White House adviser and Korea Chair at CSIS, said the findings were evidence of 'a total failure on the part of the government to do anything for the people during the pandemic.' 'Everybody was effectively lying to everybody during the pandemic,' he said. 'Because of a government policy that said there was no COVID in the country. When they knew there was.' Cha said Pyongyang's policy of denial didn't just attempt to deceive the outside world – it forced North Korea's more than 26 million people into mutually enforced silence. When North Korea closed its borders in early 2020 – as the virus made its way across the globe, on its way to infecting and killing millions – state media claimed it had kept the virus out entirely; no infections, no deaths. The world was skeptical. But the regime's total control over borders and information made independent verification nearly impossible. Two years later, North Korean television aired scenes of a military parade in Pyongyang. Crowds filled Kim Il Sung Square. Masks were scarce. Not long after, reports of a mysterious 'fever outbreak' began appearing in state media. By early May, Pyongyang confirmed its first Covid-19 case. Three months later, it declared victory – claiming just 74 deaths out of nearly 5 million 'fever' cases. But according to the new survey, Covid-19 had by that point been circulating widely inside the country for at least two years. Ninety-two percent of respondents said they or someone close to them had been infected. Most said 2020 and 2021 – not 2022 – were when outbreaks were at their worst. 'Fevers were happening everywhere, and many people were dying within a few days,' one participant reported. Another, a soldier, described a military communications battalion in which more than half the unit – about 400 soldiers – fell ill by late 2021. In prisons, schools, and food factories, respondents described people collapsing or missing days of work due to fever. Even under normal conditions, the country's isolated and underfunded healthcare system struggles to meet the needs of its people. But a pandemic-level event, coupled with official denial and an initial refusal to accept foreign vaccines, left people dangerously exposed, the report claims. With virtually no access to testing, diagnoses came from Covid-19 symptoms that most of the world had grown familiar with: fever, cough, shortness of breath. Some respondents said even these symptoms were taboo. One woman recalled being told by a doctor that if she said she had those symptoms, 'you will be taken away.' Another said bluntly: 'They told me it's a cold, but I knew it was COVID.' In place of official care, citizens turned to folk medicine: saltwater rinses, garlic necklaces, even opium injections. One woman said her child died after being given the wrong dosage of adult medication. Another respondent described neighbors overdosing on counterfeit Chinese drugs. In total, one in five respondents reported seeing or hearing of deaths due to misuse of medication or fake pharmaceuticals. Protective gear was nearly nonexistent. Just 8% of respondents said they received masks from the government. Many made their own, reused them, or bought them at black-market prices. One mother said her children had to sew their own because adult-issued masks were too big. Cha says the failure was not just in what the government withheld, but in how it blocked the kind of grassroots survival that had helped North Korea's 'resourceful' citizens endure past disasters – including the 1990s famine, known inside the country as the 'Arduous March.' That crisis gave rise to private marketplaces, which emerged as a lifeline when the state-run ration system collapsed. During the pandemic, however, those markets were shut down – officially to contain the virus, but also, Cha suggests, to limit the spread of information. 'They didn't allow the people to find coping mechanisms,' he said. 'Just shut them down, quarantine them, lock them down – and then provided them with nothing.' The suffering extended beyond illness. With internal travel banned and markets shuttered, food shortages became acute. Eighty-one percent of those surveyed said they faced hunger. Respondents spoke of trying to survive quarantine periods with no rations, no access to medicine, and no way to seek help. The rationing system, long unreliable, collapsed entirely under the weight of the lockdown. 'If you didn't have emergency food at home, it was really tough,' one soldier said. Eighty-seven percent of respondents said they had no access to Covid tests at any point in the pandemic. Fewer than 20% received any vaccine — and most of those were administered only after Pyongyang acknowledged the outbreak in 2022 and accepted limited Chinese assistance. Soldiers reported receiving three shots as part of a campaign later that year. Civilian respondents described group vaccinations administered at schools or workplaces – months after the rest of the world had rolled out full vaccination programs. Even the basic act of reporting illness became a risk. According to the report, local clinics and neighborhood watch units were required to report cases to central authorities. But only 41% of respondents ever received any information about those reports. Most said the results were either never shared or filtered through rumor. One respondent said: 'I realized that serious illnesses and deaths were not reported because they were told not to call it COVID.' This system of denial created what Cha calls a 'double lie': the government lied to its people, and the people lied to each other and to their government – each trying to avoid quarantine, censure, or worse. The survey also documented a deep well of frustration with the regime's response – and its propaganda. One participant said: 'Our country can build nuclear weapons, but they can't give us vaccines.' Others noted the contrast between their conditions and what they heard about other countries: free testing, access to medicine, the ability to travel. In one of the report's most striking findings, 83% of respondents said their experience did not align with what the government or its leader Kim Jong Un told them. More than half said they explicitly disbelieved the regime's Covid-related announcements. 'When I saw the Supreme Leader touting his love for the people, while so many were dying without medicine,' one respondent said, 'I thought of all the people who didn't survive.'
New York Times
a day ago
- Health
- New York Times
North Korea's Pandemic ‘Miracle' Was a Deadly Lie, Report Says
North Korea has long claimed that it defeated the Covid-19 pandemic without vaccines, losing only 74 lives in what it called 'a miracle unprecedented in the world's public health history.' But a report released on Tuesday said the government lied and left many of its people to die without proper health care or access to outside help. As the pandemic raged, the already woeful economic and public health conditions of ordinary North Koreans rapidly worsened as a result of their government's efforts, especially in the first two years, to deny that the virus was spreading, according to a report compiled by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies and the George W. Bush Institute. Pyongyang's repeated rejections of international help and its draconian crackdown on the movement of people made their suffering worse, the report said. The authors said their report was based on rare interviews with 100 people inside isolated North Korea — conducted by an outside intermediary that engaged them in 'casual, in-person conversations.' Their findings provide a rare glimpse into the scale of human distress inside the country during the pandemic. One woman interviewed for the report said that there were so many deaths in nursing homes in the winter of 2020 that 'there weren't enough coffins.' 'Deaths and suffering due to suspected Covid-19 cases were widespread in North Korea starting in 2020,' well before it reported its first outbreak in May 2022, the report said. 'The government's negligence was nothing short of abominable,' it noted. Citizens had virtually no access to vaccines, no antiviral medications, and minimal supply of personal protective equipment, although they had been available globally for more than a year, the report said. Nearly 90 of the 100 interviewees said they had not been tested for Covid. Nearly 40 reported not having received a vaccine during the pandemic. And 92 said they suspected that they or people they knew had been infected, though there was no way to be sure. Local health officials misreported Covid deaths and diagnoses because of fear of punishment for not aligning with the government's claim that there were no cases, it said. So did citizens, because reporting that they were sick did not bring help from the government but rather forced detention or even collective lockdowns, either of which would have worsened already-acute food shortages. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
TAMMY BARLET, STUDENT VETERANS OF AMERICA VP OF GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, NAMED 2025 BUSH INSTITUTE STAND-TO VETERAN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM SCHOLAR
Brings the Student Veterans of America's veteran advocacy mission to leadership development program WASHINGTON, June 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Tammy Barlet, Vice President of Government Affairs at Student Veterans of America (SVA) has been named one of 37 scholars who will form the George W. Bush Institute's Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program's seventh annual class, a five-month program to take place in Dallas, TX. The Stand-To program targets dynamic leaders from both civilian and military walks of life, allowing scholars to hear from a variety of distinguished professionals, educators, and experts in veteran leadership development. Each scholar will develop a personal leadership project throughout the duration of the program, with a goal of benefitting veterans and their families across the country. The new class of scholars hail from across the country and will gather at the George W. Bush Presidential Center next month for the opening session. Over the course of the five modules, scholars will hear from a variety of distinguished professionals, educators, and experts in veteran transition and leadership development such as JoAnne Bass, 19th Chief Master Sergeant, United States Air Force, and retired United States Air Force General Alfred Flowers, among others. Tammy Barlet, who has led SVA's policy efforts for over two years, already has substantial experience working to support veterans. She collaborates closely with lawmakers and federal agencies to bring education benefits and career opportunities to veterans and their families, testifying before the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committees in the name of educational support. "I am honored to be selected as part of the George W. Bush Institute's Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program's seventh annual class. This opportunity allows me to join a network of passionate leaders dedicated to improving the lives of veterans and their families. I look forward to deepening my impact, learning from fellow advocates, and continuing to ensure those who served receive the support and opportunities they've earned," said Barlet. Barlet's personal leadership project will focus on the establishment of a dedicated office within the VA's Veterans Benefits Administration to assisting and educating family members of veterans who are rated 100% Permanent and Total on the benefits they are entitled to. The program, which would focus heavily on assistance and awareness for educational benefits, will bridge information gaps and empower veterans and their families to thrive, supporting SVA's mission of providing educational resources, support, and advocacy. "Tammy's selection for the Bush Institute's Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program is a direct reflection of her relentless commitment to the veterans, military-connected students, family members, caregivers, and survivors we serve," said Jared Lyon, President and CEO of Student Veterans of America. "The insight and relationships she builds in this program will help all of us at SVA create even stronger pathways to education, opportunity, and well-being for those who have worn the uniform and families that serve alongside them. We couldn't be prouder to see her join this network of proven leaders." Scholars were carefully chosen following a comprehensive application and review process. They become part of a dynamic network comprising over 200 alumni from six earlier classes, focused on enhancing veteran outcomes across a range of issues. Many alumni occupy leadership positions in business, community initiatives, nonprofits aiding veterans, government, and academia; numerous members are also actively serving or reserve military personnel. The program is part of the Bush Institute's commitment to developing and supporting effective leaders. It builds on the organization's extensive policy work relating to veterans and military families. To learn more about the Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program, please visit About Student Veterans of AmericanStudent Veterans of America® (SVA) elevates the academic, professional, and personal development of veterans in higher education through chapter programs and services, outcomes and impacts research, and advocacy at every level. With a mission focused on empowering student veterans, SVA is committed to providing an educational experience that goes beyond the classroom. Through a dedicated network of over 1,600 on-campus chapters in all 50 states and three countries overseas representing nearly 600,000 student veterans, SVA inspires yesterday's warriors by connecting student veterans with a community of dedicated chapter leaders. Every day these passionate leaders work to provide the necessary resources, network support, and advocacy to ensure student veterans can effectively connect, expand their skills, and ultimately achieve their greatest potential. About the George W. Bush Institute The George W. Bush Institute is a solution-oriented nonpartisan policy organization focused on ensuring opportunity for all, strengthening democracy, and advancing free societies. Housed within the George W. Bush Presidential Center, the Bush Institute is rooted in compassionate conservative values and committed to creating positive, meaningful, and lasting change at home and abroad. 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