Tuesday, June 4, 2019 | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Columbia Law School, JGH 105 435 W. 116 St., New York, NY 10027 This event is free and open to the public but please register in advance. Please join a panel discussion on the new book Gender and the Law of the Sea. This… read more
The James S. McDonnell Foundation (JSMF) has posted updated guidelines for the 2019 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award program in Understanding Dynamic and Multi-scale Systems. The JSMF Fellowship is a unique opportunity for students with an interest in and an aptitude for complexity science who are in the final stages of completing their Ph.D. and looking to… read more
Along with the Youth, Peace, and Security program director, Dr. Beth Fisher-Yoshida, program coordinator, Joan Camilo Lopez, facilitated a Systems Thinking and Dynamical Systems Theory (DST) workshop with youth community leaders at Comuna 5, Medellin last February. The explicit objectives of this workshop were to explore, together with local leaders in Castilla, the dynamics of… read more
In conjunction with the School of Professional Studies, we formally launched the Youth, Peace and Security Leadership Program on Wednesday, April 3rd in the Columbia Journalism School’s Pulitzer Hall. The evening included a keynote address by Jayathma Wickramanayake, the UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth, who emphasized the importance of programs such as ours in advancing… read more
Peace by Piece: How African Women Leaders are Building New Peace Movements Across Africa May 7, 2019 | 6:00 – 7:30PM 309 Havemeyer Hall, Columbia University Please register. This panel will be an intergenerational conversation among expert leaders who are spearheading critical movements for peace and security in countries across Africa. The panel will feature… read more
Morton Deustch Awards for Social Justice April 13, 2019 | Teachers College This Saturday, April 13th, the Deutsch Awards will take place as part of the Teachers College Academic Festival. The awards will b given from 2:00 – 3:15PM. Register Here This year, the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR) will be honoring Mariame… read more
Marine biologist, policy expert, and conservation strategist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson discusses the challenges and possibility she sees in environmental justice work today. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist and policy expert who promotes environmental justice and coastal care in communities in New York and elsewhere. She does this through policy and organizing, event curation,… read more
From the Journal of Petroleum Technology (JPT) Stephen Rassenfoss, JPT Emerging Technology Senior Editor 01 March 2019 Difficult Conversations While living in California, Judah recalled, “If you wore a shirt with a Chevron logo to the airport, there were people who would light into you.” While the EY survey found a large number of people… read more
The panel discussion includes: Avril Haines, Senior Research Fellow at Columbia World Projects, Columbia Law School lecturer, and the ex-deputy director of the CIA; Nancy Reame, Lecturer at the School of Nursing who is a long standing advisor to the iconic Our Bodies, Ourselves and helped conduct tampon absorbency tests with the FDA after the… read more
March 7, 2019 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EST Pulitzer Hall, Room 601 | Columbia University, Morningside Campus On March 7th at 6:30pm, the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Masters Program at Columbia University (NECR) will host a panel of alumni who are working throughout the field, followed by a Q&A. The panel will be… read more