peacebuilding

The process of restoring normal relations between people. It requires the reconciliation of differences, apology and forgiveness of past harm, and the establishment of a cooperative relationship between groups, replacing the adversarial or competitive relationship that used to exist. (from http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/glossary.htm)

The following items are tagged peacebuilding.

Understanding Chavez

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“Understanding Chavez”

with
Boris Munoz, Editor in Chief, Exceso Magazine and Nieman Fellow
and
Leonardo Vivas, Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Kennedy School of Government.

Date: February 23, 2010

Time: 4-6 PM
Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
1737 Cambridge Street, Third Floor, N-354*, Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).
*Please note the

The Role of Track I actors in Reconciliation: The UN in Iraq

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“The Role of Track I actors in Reconciliation: The UN in Iraq”

with

Eileen Babbitt

Date: December 8, 2009
Time: 4-6 PM
Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
1737 Cambridge Street, Second Floor, N-262 (Bowie Vernon Room), Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).

Speaker Bio
Eileen F. Babbitt is Professor of International Conflict Management Practice and Director of the International Negotiation

Gender, Culture, and Conflict in Humanitarian Complex Emergencies

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Gender, Culture, and Conflict in Humanitarian Complex Emergencies (DHP D232)
FLETCHER SCHOOL

SPRING
Instructor:
Dyan Mazurana
Friedman School of Nutrition
617-627-3203

This course examines situations of armed conflict and complex emergencies and the international and national humanitarian, human rights and military responses to these situations from a gender perspective and highlights the policy and program implications that this perspective presents.

Evaluation of Peacebuilding

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Evaluation of Peacebuilding (DHP 228m)
FLETCHER SCHOOL

SPRING
Instructor:
Cheyanne Church
Fletcher School
617-627-5790

For the past five years, evaluation has been a hot topic for the international peacebuilding world, and temperature continues to rise. The focus on evaluation has the potential to make or break this field. High quality, professional evaluation integrated into programming could provide the

Corruption, Conflict, and Peacebuilding

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Corruption, Conflict, and Peacebuilding (DHP 239m)
FLETCHER SCHOOL

FALL
Instructor:
Cheyanne Church
Fletcher School
617-627-5790

Fighting corruption has become an increasingly important topic for governments of the industrialized donor nations and the institutions whose membership they dominate. As a consequence it has become an issue of concern for the rest of the world. Despite the increasing attention

Advanced Seminar in Development and Conflict

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Advanced Seminar in Development and Conflict (DHP P227)
FLETCHER SCHOOL

SPRING
Instructors:
Peter Uvin
617-627-2731

Diana Chigas
617-627-5870

The aim of this seminar is to provide students with contemporary tools and understandings at the intersection of development and conflict resolution practice. This seminar is in-depth and cutting-edge, discussing in detail what it is that development and conflict resolution

Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict:

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Conflict in Global Finance After the Meltdown:

Reconciling Competing Priorities
with

Richard Parker
Lecturer on Public Policy
Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School
Date: November 10, 2009
Time: 4-6 PM
Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
1737 Cambridge Street, Second Floor, N-262 (Bowie Vernon Room), Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).

Speaker Bio
Richard Parker is Lecturer in Public Policy and

PON 5th Annual Internship Fair

Posted by & filed under Careers, Events, Mediation, Negotiation Skills, Student Events, Students.

Are you interested in gaining valuable work experience in the field of negotiation and dispute resolution? Come to the PON Internship Fair to meet representatives of organizations that are recruiting interns and research assistants.

Recruiters will briefly introduce their organizations and the available internships at 5:30 P.M. sharp. Students will then be able to circulate among

Re-thinking the conflicts in the Middle East: Can the new U.S. administration play a constructive role?

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Herbert C. Kelman,the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, at Harvard University

Scheherezade Faramarzi,reporter for the Associated Press in Lebanon and Nieman Fellow

Herbert C. Kelman is the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, at Harvard University and was (from 1993 to 2003) director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and

The Post-Election Message to the World: What’s the New Agenda?

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A discussion with:

Ambassador Nicholas Burns: Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He served in the United States Foreign Service for twenty seven years until his retirement in April 2008. He was Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2005-2008, the nation’s highest ranking