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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
Measuring Violence against Children and the Effectiveness of Violence Prevention and Reduction Initiatives October 21, 2013, 9:30a – 1:30p Allan Rosenfield Building, 722 West 168th St. Room: Hess Commons Pregnancy Backlash: Law, Privacy and Domestic Violence October 21, 2013 12:10p-1:10p CU Law Community Responses to Eviction, Gentrification, and Police Violence in Pre-Olympic… 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
News Display: Martin Luther King, Jr. Wins Nobel Peace Prize 10/14/2013 – 9am Teachers College Book Talk and Signing: Yigal Kipnis “1973: The Road to War” October 14, 2013 – 12:15pm – 2:00pm Columbia University Morningside Campus International Affairs Building, Room 1302 Sex and Gender Politics in Putins Russia October 15, 2013… read more
The Two Sudans Project of the Program on Peacebuilding and Rights invites you to a discussion on the “Crisis in Sudan” with Mukesh Kapila Introduction by David L. Phillips, Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University Commentary by Ahmed Hussain Adam, Visiting Scholar, Institute for the Study of Human Rights at… read more
Protecting Rights by Violating Them: How Police and Military Officers Explain Torture and Respond to Human Rights Activism in India October 8, 2013 – 12:15pm – 2:00pm Columbia University Morningside Campus International Affairs Building, Room 1302 Big Data/Global Surveillance October 8, 2013 – 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. International Affairs Building, 1501 Should… 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
Does your group work on a particular human rights issue? Are you interested in organizing more activities related to human rights? To foster communication and connections among students on campus interested in human rights, the Education Program at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights invites you to attend a networking event for student… read more