12th ANNUAL PEACE BUILDING FIELDWORK SYMPOSIUM – Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA)

Date: Monday, October 1

Time: 11:00am-2:00pm

Place: SIPA, 420 W. 118th St., New York, Room 1302 (Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies)

Hear first-hand accounts of international peace building initiatives. Graduate-students returning from the field will discuss their findings and emerging issues facing today’s practitioners. This is the capstone event of “Applied Peacebuilding: Core Competencies for Fieldwork”, a unique course taught by Zachary Metz (Columbia and Consensus) and Devanand Ramiah (UNDP BCPR). In the course, students design and implement projects with field-based partner organizations, including UN agencies, international and national NGOs, think tanks and governments.

Student presentations will discuss innovative initiatives in Burundi, Colombia, Cyprus, East Timor, Fiji, Indonesia, Lebanon, Papua New Guinea, and the US, including: early warning – mining conflicts – knowledge sharing networks – economic cooperation in conflict zones -gender and conflict anti-radicalization – peace education – international security sector cooperation