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CRWG presents: A discussion with Joujou from Palestine Loves Israel October 9th 2013 8:00-10:00 PM Room 407 IAB Columbia University RSVP at eventme.rsvp@gmail.com Get our newsletter I’d like to get more stories like this. Email address Secure and Spam free…
From Classrooms to Conflict in Rwanda A Book Talk by Elisabeth King Date: October 1, 2013 – 6:30pm – 8:30pm Location: 208 Knox Hall From Classrooms to Conflict in Rwanda (Cambridge University Press, 2013) questions the conventional wisdom that education builds peace by exploring the ways in which ordinary schooling can contribute to intergroup conflict…. read more
Date: Tuesday, October 1 Time: 12 noon-3pm Place: Room 1201 (Harriman Institute), SIPA, 420 W. 118th St., New York Hear first-hand accounts of international peace building initiatives. Graduate students returning from the field will share their findings and emerging issues facing today’s practitioners. This is the capstone event of “Applied Peacebuilding: Core Competencies for Fieldwork”,… read more
The Columbia Aikido Club meets in the Dodge Fitness Center Wrestling Room: Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Saturdays, 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Classes are currently in session. For more information, email cgs2133@columbia.edu. Aikido is a modern Japanese martial art that teaches coordination of mind and body to… read more
Friday, September 27, 2013 12:00pm International Affairs Building, Room 918 Columbia University Speaker: Christian Delage Professor Université Paris 8 Event Link Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Heyman Center for the Humanities Get our newsletter I’d like to get more stories like this. Email address Secure and Spam free…
Columbia Seminar on Defense and Security Organizational Meeting October 1, 2013 – 12:00pm – 1:00pm Columbia University Morningside Campus International Affairs Building Saltzman Seminar Room 1302 Stormy Seas: Japans Disputes over History and Territory and the US-Japan Alliance October 1, 2013 – 12:00pm – 1:30pm Columbia University Morningside Campus International Affairs Building, Room 918… read more
Experimenting with Conflicts Constructively: In Search of Identity for the Field of Conflict Resolution A brown bag discussion with Professor Michal Alberstein Thursday October 3, 2013 at 1:30pm to be presented by an AC4 Visiting Scholar, Professor Michal Alberstein, head of the conflict management and negotiation interdisciplinary program, Bar-Ilan University and Visiting Professor, Fordham Law… read more
September 10, 2013 Options for Action in Syria: A Statement by Conflict Resolution Professionals Originally published on Facilitating Peace President Obama’s proposed course of limited military airstrikes is intended to “punish” Syrian President Assad for allegedly using chemical weapons. (The UN inspectors’ report verifying whether chemical weapons were used is not yet out.) This is… read more
Paid internship opportunity Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity at The Earth Institute, Columbia University Problem-solving in the Arab World: Constructive Engagement and Action As part of a series of initiatives intended to share ideas, perspectives, approaches and challenges to building prosperous societies in the Arab world and beyond, the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation… read more
The Oral History Master of Arts (OHMA) Program, Columbia Center for Oral History, and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights WHO: Darija Marić is a sociologist who has been working at Documenta – Center for Dealing with the Past since 2009. Currently she is coordinating field research for the project “Unveiling Personal Memories… read more