In our News section, as listed below, you will find information about lectures, conferences, events, jobs, and internship positions at Columbia University and other areas in New York and across the globe.
Wanting to stay connected and find events around the Columbia campus related to peacebuilding and conflict resolution?
Step UP! Effective Strategies for Bystander Intervention 9/15/2015, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Teachers College, Whittier Cafe (1st floor, Whittier Hall) Heyman Center Workshops with CRPS Workshop Series: Tommie Shelby on Richard Wright: Realizing the Promise of the West Friday, September 18, 2015 12:15 PM – 2:15 PM Columbia University, Schermerhorn Hall Seminar… read more
September 8, 2015 The authors of Making Conflict Work (2014), Dr. Peter T. Coleman and Dr. Robert Ferguson, have developed an app to help users navigate their workplace and interpersonal conflicts from their mobile device. The Making Conflict Work app uses the teachings of Making Conflict Work to help you analyze your role in any… read more
Social Media and the Quality of Freedom of Expression in Indonesia: Evidence from the Field September 8, 2015 12:10 PM – 1:10 PM Columbia University, Kent Hall 624 Screening of This Kind of Love followed by Q&A with 2003 Advocate Aung Myo Min September 9, 2015 12:10 PM – 1:10 PM Columbia University,… read more
Natalie Unwin-Kuruneri is the Associate Director of Education at the Earth Institute. She is an alumni of Columbia University’s Master of Public Administration program. Please tell us about your background. I did my undergraduate studies in sociology and psychology at George Washington University in D.C., and have always wanted to do something that would help people… read more
Job Description The Project Assistant will provide a wide range of administrative support and some desk research assistance for the development of a program proposal on women, peace, and security to be housed at the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4) at Columbia University. The program aims to create educational offerings intended to… read more
Every five years, the city of Boise, Idaho, welcomes tens of thousands of visitors to the Jaialdi celebration, one of the largest Basque festivals anywhere in the world. At this year’s Jaialdi festival, held from July 28 to August 2, members of the global Basque diaspora gathered in Boise to engage with Basque history, culture,… read more
In March this year, members of Fundacion Puerta Abierta (FPA), Wilmar Valencia, Rafael Agudelo, and Jerson Marulanda, visited Washington D.C. and New York. In Washington, AC4’s Urban Violence team organized meetings between the FPA and the officials from the U.S. State Department, the World Bank, U.S. Institute for Peace, and Center for International Policy. The… read more
From The Times of Israel: How does your identity as an Israeli impact your interest in conflict resolution? As you might imagine, conflict is rather ubiquitous when you’re growing up in Israel. It’s not just the macro conflicts. We Israelis are a quarrelsome bunch, and conflict regularly emerges in many day-to-day interactions. So one of… read more
From the State of the Planet Blog: By Peter T. Coleman & Chris Straw A few years ago, our research team at Columbia was asked to work on addressing a problem of ongoing gang violence in a public school in the South Bronx. The school had been faced with recurring patterns of vandalism, theft and… read more
By Kyong Mazzaro, Saad Saad and Peter T. Coleman Throughout history, conflict resolution in the Arab world has been infused with Arab and Islamic culture, albeit shaped by differences in ethnic and political regimes and policies. However, over the last two decades, the peace-building and conflict resolution efforts undertaken by civil society and non-governmental organizations… read more