10/1: 13th ANNUAL PEACE BUILDING FIELDWORK SYMPOSIUM at SIPA
Date: Tuesday, October 1
Time: 12 noon-3pm
Place: Room 1201 (Harriman Institute), SIPA, 420 W. 118th St., New York
Hear first-hand accounts of international peace building initiatives. Graduate students returning from the field will share 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) with 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 South Sudan, Timor-Leste, Tunisia, Fiji, Thailand, Maldives, Indonesia, Israel / Palestine, and the US, including:
Peace building networks – economic cooperation in conflict zones – gender, environment and conflict – anti-radicalization – judicial reform – peace and coexistence education – monitoring and evaluation – media – youth in transitional justice – gender based violence
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