Working in a conflict-affected context is never easy. In a country like Pakistan, security threats are constant. When I lived in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital city for most of 2013, I was regularly on “lock-down”. Forced to work from home, I was not allowed to leave my apartment until the situation was deemed safe. During elections… read more

Thursday, April 14th | 4:00 to 5:00PM Columbia University Morningside Campus, Russell Hall Room 305   Dr. Nimat Hafez Barazangi, alumna of Teachers College, will presents a lecture on Thursday, April 14th entitled, Why Muslim Women Are Reinterpreting the Qur`an and Rethinking Hadith. Dr. Barazangi is an enormously courageous and forthright fighter for women’s rights… read more

On February 1, AC4 Executive Co-Chair Dr. Peter T. Coleman and project coordinator Kristen Rucki traveled to Bilbao, Basque Country. There they initiated the ground-truthing and stakeholder engagement phase of AC4’s Sustainable Peace Mapping Initiative, and Dr. Coleman also gave a public presentation on the topic of sustainable peace. In a half-day workshop co-sponsored by… read more

Lessons from Mumbai: Investigating Coordinated Terror Tuesday, March 8th, 2016, 12:30 to 2:00pm Columbia University Morningside Campus International Affairs Building Room 1302   How to Negotiate an International Agreement: Lessons from the Paris Climate Talks Tuesday, March 8th, 2016 12:15 to 1:00pm Columbia University Morningside Campus William and June Warren Hall Room L107   A… read more

March 15th | 6:00 – 7:30pm Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway | Free Dr. Peter Coleman, AC4‘s Co-Executive Director, and Director of the MD-ICCCR will speak at the Union Theological Seminary on a panel discussion focusing on “moral imagination” — the ability to understand the perspective of people in circumstances very different from your own,… read more

Two days into my stay on the Afro-indigenous Miskitu Coast of Nicaragua, a shootout between mestizo settlers and local indigenous residents in a small Miskitu village shocked the region and brought sustained national media attention to the coast for the first time in years. Tensions between non-indigenous settlers and Miskitu residents are a longstanding issue… read more

The Roots & Wings of Hip-Hop Culture: Exploring Hip-Hop, Healing and Spirituality Monday, February 29th, 2016 12:00 to 5:00pm Columbia University Morningside Campus Teachers College   God is Emancipation to You- To me, He is Oppression: Secularism, Gender and the State Monday, February 29th, 2016, 12:10 to 1:20pm Columbia University Morningside Campus Jerome Greene Hall… read more

The Digital Divide: EU v. US over Data Protection with Max Schrems, Founder of Europe v. Facebook Monday, February 22nd, 2016, 12:30pm to 2:00pm Columbia University Morningside Campus International Affairs Building Room 1501 South Asia Institute: A Talk by Lisa Mitchell (Pennsylvania) “Hailing the State: Collective Assembly and the Politics of Recognition in the History… read more

12th Annual Morton Deutsch Awards for Social Justice Call for Student Papers Deadline: Monday, February 15th, 11:59PM   Youth and Community Leaders in Peacebuilding: NECR Salon and Networking Reception Monday, February 15th, 6:30 to 8:00PM Columbia University Morningside Campus School of Social Work Room 304   German-EU-Russian Relations: Dissolution of the “Strategic” and “Modernization Partnerships”… read more

  The Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR) at Teachers College, Columbia University, is sponsoring the 12th annual Morton Deutsch Award for an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper on Social Justice. Morton Deutsch, one of the world’s preeminent psychologists, has made significant contributions over the many years of his career in the… read more