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As of May 2015, the AC4 Graduate Fellowship program has a total of 63 alumni in addition to the numerous Earth Institute student recipients of travel grants, internships and research assistantships. Learn more about AC4 fellows in our featured interviews: Jonathan Blake, 2011 Where are you now? I finished my PhD in the spring, defending in April and graduating… read more
AC4 Co-Sponsored Event! Film Screening of “The Island President” November 9, 2015, 6:00pm to 8:00pm Columbia Law School, Jerome Green Room 102 Conference: The Welfare State and the Fight Against Inequality November 08, 2015 – November 09, 2015 Columbia University International Affairs Building, Room 1501 Taking China Seriously: How Legitimate is the… read more
The Dyson College of Arts and Sciences and the Peace and Justice Studies program at Pace University invite applications for a position teaching negotiation, mediation and facilitation during the spring 2016 semester. Peace and Justice Studies is a major at Pace University and this course is part of the required core classes for the major…. read more
On October 14, 2015, AC4 Director Dr. Josh Fisher presented the latest findings from the Sustainable Human Development (SHD) project at a daylong event at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao. Hosted by the Agirre Lehendakaria Center for Social and Political Studies (ALC), the event highlighted the work of the ALC and its… read more
Next Monday: AC4 Co-Sponsored Event! Film Screening of The Island President Monday, November 9, 2015, 6:00pm to 8:00pm Columbia Law School, Jerome Green Room 102A The LGBT Movement in Albania: Art, Politics, and History Wednesday, November 04, 2015, 12:00pm to 1:30pm Columbia University Morningside Campus International Affairs Building, Room 1219 Native Americans and… read more
AC4, in collaboration with the design analytics and decision support boutique Scensei, has spent the past six months engaged in an investigation exploring self-determination as a democratic process in the Basque Country. In particular, this project involved an independent study of the reach and effectiveness of Gure Esku Dago (“It’s in Our Hands”), a Basque… read more
Growth, Poverty, and Inequality Interactions in Africa Monday, October 26, 2015, 4:00pm to 5:15pm Columbia University, Morningside Campus, International Affairs Building, Room 1512 Sustainable Development Seminar Series: Toward Food Security in Cuba Monday, October 26, 2015, 4:00pm to 6:00pm Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Alfred J. Lerner Hall, Satow Room, 5th Floor Foucault 13/13:… read more
On Monday, October 19, AC4, in collaboration with the Masters in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution program (NECR), the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR), and the City University of New York Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College, hosted a talk with Senator George Mitchell on his memoir, The Negotiator. Senator… read more
Companies often talk to their employees about teamwork and building relationships, yet suffer from a lack of collegiality in the workplace. Organizations rely on their people to be explicitly united in a common purpose, toward a common goal and to respect each other’s abilities to work toward that purpose. However, this is not often the… read more
The 2015 Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) Learning Exchange, also known as the FUGIC Forum, took place in Munich, Germany, from September 17-20. Hosts of the Learning Exchange were the CMM Institute and the Institute for Global Integral Competence. This interview was conducted by AC4’s Meredith Smith and Venera Kusari. What motivated you to choose… read more