This year is the 14th annual Deutsch Awards, awarding outstanding graduate students for papers in the areas of conflict resolution and social justice. Award includes $500 and is open to all current graduate level students. Submissions are due before March 1, 2018. Submit papers to: icccr@tc.columbia.edu. For more information: http://icccr.tc.columbia.edu/call-for-student-papers-deutsch-awards/ Get our newsletter I’d like to… read more

Job opening at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida: tenure-track assistant professor position with a teaching and research focus on questions of human rights, transitional justice, peace and conflict/post-conflict, and related fields. F/T appointment. Candidates should have or be near completion of Ph.D.. Assistant Profession — Human Rights, Peace, and Justice in… read more

London School of Economics and Political Science has compiled a list of  organizations working in peacebuilding, conflict resolution, mediation and related activities. The list includes 24 different organizations, providing brief information on each. International Organization for Migration (IOM), Mercy Corps, and Alliance for Peacebuilding a few of the ones included. <<< Check out the list… read more

The aim of my research project was to critically examine the links between local governance and community peace building projects in Libya. Programming that focuses on building technocratic local governance structure has become a model for western donor intervention and has been used widely as a stabilisation tool to prop up state control in fragile… read more

7th Annual Conference of The Historical Dialogues, Justice, and Memory Networks: “Present Past: Time, Memory, and the Negotiation of Historical Justice” Thursday, December 7 – Saturday, December 9, 2017 | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Columbia University Morningside Campus, International Affairs Building | 420 West 118 Street RSVP Sustaining Peace: Partnerships for Conflict Prevention and… read more

Working shoulder to shoulder, in partnership, with grassroots organizations has always been the essence of the Youth Peace and Security Program. During the first week of November, the YPS team, Dr. Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Dr. Aldo Civico and Joan C. Lopez, traveled to Medellin, Colombia to hold strategic meetings with partners on the ground, and to… read more

Climate Change Impacts: Relocation to Safer Ground Tuesday, December 5, 2017 | 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Columbia University Morningside Campus, Faculty House, 3rd Floor | 64 Morningside Drive Teachers’ Lounge: Negotiating the Terms of Assessment Wednesday, December 6, 2017 | 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm Columbia University Morningside Campus, Butler Library, Room 212 |… read more

I am uncomfortable with any logic that centers itself around the word ‘peace.’ I believe that to fall back on capital ‘p’ Peace causes us to depoliticize its purported opposite, conflict, in ways that relegate those involved and affected to identity checkmarks. Women are cast as peacemakers, men as antagonists, non-state armed actors become either… read more

On November 3rd, Dr. Peter T. Coleman, Dr. Larry S. Liebovitch, Dr. Douglas P. Fry and Jaclyn Donahue of the Sustainable Peace Project at AC4 presented preliminary findings at the International Peace Institute in New York City. The presentation was included at International Peace Institute for an event titled What Does Empirical Research Tell Us About Sustainable Peace. The… read more

Quench: Exploring Genders Across Cultures Friday, November 17, 2017 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Columbia University Morningside Campus, Schapiro Hall, Main Lounge | 605-615 W. 115 Street Central Asian Diaspora in the USA: The Case of Kyrgyz Americans Friday, November 17, 2017 | 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm Columbia University Morningside Campus, Davis Auditorium,… read more