The Evolution of Special Operations Forces November 18, 2013 12:05pm to 1:40pm Columbia University Morningside Campus International Affairs Building, Room 1512   Libya and the Responsibility to Protect November 18, 2013 – 12:10p – 1:10p CU Law – JG 104   SJI Monday: Human Trafficking and Racial Discrimination in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina… read more

Adjunct position for Introduction to Peace and Justice Studies The section to be covered during the spring semester will run Monday evenings from 6:10-9:00 pm. Courses begin the last week in January 2014. Candidates should have at least an MA in Peace and Justice Studies, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, International Studies or a related field;… read more

  Columbia Seminar on Defense & Security Meeting November 12, 2013 12:00pm to 1:00pm Columbia University Morningside Campus International Affairs Building, Room 1302   The Last Great Human Rights Challenge? Global Decriminalization of Homosexuality Through Pro Bono November 12, 2013 – 12:10-1:10p CU Law – JG101   Drones, Teapots, ICBMs’, Type-writers and the Internet: Hacking… read more

The Kent State Department of Political Science and the Center for Applied Conflict Management announce the creation of a track in “Conflict Analysis and Management” in the Political Science Ph.D degree.*  KSU’s Department of Political Science has offered a popular doctorate since the late 1960s. The Center for Applied Conflict Management (CACM) is a long-time… read more

  Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe November 4, 2013 – 12:00pm – 2:00pm Columbia University Morningside Campus International Affairs Building, Room 1219   EnGendering Trauma: On Victims, Witnesses, and Testimony November 4, 2013 – 4:20 – 6:00p CU Law Case Lounge   Reflections on working in… read more

The importance of “Yes, and…” in sustainable peace By Adam Jacobs, Executive Director of Kids Creative “Yes, and…” is a basic tenant of improv acting.  When an improviser hears a fellow actor present an idea, they must accept that idea and continue the scene, before adding on to the original idea with something of their… read more

Learning From Hostage & Crisis Negotiators Jeff Thompson Don’t rush the process. A crisis and hostage negotiation is a tense situation that can be volatile with lives being at risk so is it absurd that a critical skill for hostage and crisis negotiators is to slow the process down? That is exactly a mistake that… read more

Barnard College is pleased to announce Nobel Laureate and Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee as its inaugural Distinguished Fellow in Social Justice. During the upcoming year, Gbowee, who spoke at Barnard’s 2013 Commencement ceremony in May, will also serve as a Barnard Center for Research on Women Transnational Fellow, a Fellow in Residence at the… read more

No orchestra, no government and no compromise 9:06 AM, October 3, 2013 Visit MPR to Listen to Full Interview Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Republican members of the House of Representatives rallied after passing a bill that would fund the government and defund the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) On… read more

The Graduate Programs in Conflict Resolution at the University of Massachusetts Boston seek to hire both a junior and a senior faculty member to begin September 1, 2014. The programs are part of the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance, in the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies. The new faculty members may… read more