Catalysts for Change: How the UN’s Independent Experts Promote Human Rights Start/End: Thursday, October 25, 2012 12:10 PM EDT — 01:10 PM EDT Location: Jerome Greene Hall 106 Please join HRI for a lunch time discussion with Jamil Dakwar, Director of the ACLU’s Human Rights Program, and Ted Piccone, a CLS graduate and senior fellow… read more

Date: November 15, 2012 Time:3:30pm – 5:30pm Location: Horace Mann 148, Teachers College, 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027 Join the Global Community Forum at Teachers College on November 15 for a working group meeting.  All are welcome.  For more information about the Global Community Forum and its goals, please visit the Forum… read more

 Mind Zone: Therapists Behind the Front Lines Private Educational Screening Wednesday, October 24, 6:30pm Held Auditorium, Barnard Hall Barnard College – 3009 Broadway at 117th St Mind Zone follows therapists with the 113th Army Combat Stress Control unit as they carry out two conflicting missions: protecting soldiers from battle fatigue and keeping these same soldiers… read more

Moving Images: Documenting the Lives of Women Migrants with Janice Haaken Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 6:30PM James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall Many contemporary feminist projects attempt to subvert the male gaze by “bearing witness” to female trauma through visual representation. Yet these projects have tended to be under-theorized. Since visual images invoke the spectator’s… read more

Exclusive Preview Film Screening “Sweet Dreams” Friday, October 26, 2012 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Film screening and discussion with Rob Fruchtman, followed by ice cream from Blue Marble General Theological Seminary 440 W. 21st Street New York, NY 10011 Tickets must be purchased in advance at http://sweetdreamsgts.eventbrite.com. Click here to download the flier. Sweet Dreams… read more

When October 22, 2012 – October 26, 2012 Where United States Institute of Peace 2301 Constitution Ave., NW Washington, DC 20037 Information Conflict management practitioners working in conflict zones often engage with groups who are at odds with one another. Many of the strategies these practitioners employ depend heavily on having solid facilitation skills. Conflict… read more

Please join Robert Ricigliano, Director of the Institute of World Affairs at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, as he discusses his book, Making Peace Last: A Toolbox for Sustainable Peacebuilding (Paradigm Publishers, 2011))on Thursday, October 11th. Organized into three sections (“Unlocking the Power of Peacebuilding”; ” Systemic Peacebuilding Analysis and Planning”; and “Catalyzing Systemic Change”),… read more

The Earth Institute, Columbia University presents STATE OF THE PLANET 2012   Join us on October 11, 2012, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM   Columbia University, Alfred Lerner Hall, Roone Arledge Auditorium, 2910 Broadway, New York or On-line via live webcast at www.stateoftheplanet.org Rio +20 invited us to move beyond the Millennium Development Goals to… read more

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:… read more

The Center for International Conflict Resolution is pleased to invite you to the following presentation: Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping:  Protecting Civilians WITHOUT Guns Monday, October 1st, 2012 4:30pm-6:00pm International Affairs Building Room 1302 RSVP to Jessica Baen: jrb2178@columbia.edu Unarmed civilian peacekeeping is a relatively new innovation for protecting civilians and reducing violence without the use of… read more