Association of Conflict Resolution
The Environment and Public Policy (EPP) Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), a professional organization dedicated to enhancing the practice and public understanding of conflict resolution, in partnership with the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, is seeking a fall intern.
This is a paid or for-credit remote internship from September 1, 2020 to December 12, 2020 (with some flexibility in the dates). Applications will be accepted until August 15, 2020 or until the position is filled.
Sankofa Summer: An EPIP Virtual Learning Series
July 8 – August 20, 2020
Sankofa is a West African concept that invites us to reach back to gather the best of what our past has taught us in order to reach our fullest potential as we move forward. Now, during a moment in history in which we are reflecting on, reimagining, and reshaping the world around us, EPIP is proud to introduce Sankofa Summer, a 6-week series of virtual events taking place in July and August 2020.
Join EPIP for events designed to rejuvenate your mind, body, spirit, and connection to the philanthropic community, with a focus on three key themes – Decolonizing Stories, Disrupting the Status Quo, and Embracing Collective Approaches to Healing.
A Path Forward: A Conversation with Robin DiAngelo, Ibram X. Kendi and interviewer Wesley Lowery
August 20, 2020 // 7:00 PM PDT
On Thursday, August 20th at 7:00pm the National Conflict Resolution Center presents A Path Forward, a conversation with Robin Diangelo and Ibram X. Kendi, with interviewer Wesley Lowery. Robin DiAngelo is an academic, lecturer, and author and has been a consultant and trainer on issues of racial and social justice for more than twenty years. She formerly served as a tenured professor of multicultural education at Westfield State University. Professor Ibram X. Kendi is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a professor of history, and the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. He is a columnist at The Atlantic and a correspondent with CBS News. He is the author of five books including Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction; Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, co-authored with Jason Reynolds; and Antiracist Baby, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky. Wesley Lowery is a journalist at CBS News, and formerly was at The Washington Post, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016 as the lead of the Post’s “Fatal Force” project. He is also the author of They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Justice Movement. This a free virtual event; registration is required.
National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV) Virtual Think Tank 2020
August 29, 2020 // 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM PT // Online
Every year the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence hosts an annual Think Tank where new and returning members alike come together to discuss the goals, methods, and plans of NPEIV in the year to come. Action Team co-chairs will lead think tanks and group discussions that will be shared at the end of the day with the entire Partnership. The Think Tank is an excellent opportunity to network with professionals from multiple disciplines that are dedicated to helping bring about the end to interpersonal violence.
PeaceCon 2020: Pandemics, Peace, Justice: Shaping What Comes Next
December 7-9, 2020
In the midst of a global pandemic, rising global violence, and a national and worldwide reckoning over systemic injustice and racism, PeaceCon 2020 will bring together experts and practitioners to consider the interplay of justice and peacebuilding, and strategies to elevate and integrate peacebuilding in our collective effort to shape a more just, secure and peaceful future in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Peace and Conflict Studies Journal Conference
February 10 & 11, 2021 // Nova Southeastern University’s main campus in Ft. Lauderdale
This conference hosts the PCSJ community for a timely and urgent exploration of the divisive social, political and economic forces that are driving so much conflict, and what our field can bring in terms of theories, research and practice solutions.
Call for Papers for Border Walls and Borderlands: Security, Environment and Resistance International Conference
This international conference is organized by the Raoul-Dandurand chair at the Univeristy of Quebec in Montreal. Occurring May 19-20, 2021 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Deadline for abstract submission: November 1, 2020 (for both paper and art installation submissions).
U.S. Institute of Peace – Global Campus
The current responses to COVID-19 and systemic racism have created an increased demand for resources and training to help today’s peacebuilders transform violent conflicts in their communities and to assist people who are seeking nonviolent change around the world. To meet that demand, the U.S. Institute of Peace is offering its entire catalog of online courses tuition-free from now until the end of 2020.
Congress founded the Institute to strengthen America’s ability to reduce costly armed conflicts abroad—and its education and training programs are a core method by which USIP pursues that mission. Over its 35 years, the Institute has trained tens of thousands of peacebuilders from 198 countries and territories in the skills needed to prevent or reduce violence. The Institute’s trainees have included U.S. and foreign diplomats and military personnel, police officers, government officials, conflict resolution practitioners, students—and ordinary citizens working to build sustainable peace in their communities.
USIP has built its Global Campus—an online training center with 33 courses in basic conflict resolution skills and peacebuilding tools—to help policymakers, practitioners and people working to build peace internationally or in their own communities. The online training includes introductory micro-courses that require at most three hours of study and full-length courses that may require 10 to 20 hours to complete. Online trainees receive a certificate of completion.
Career Services Webinar Series hosted by National Peace Corps Association
NPCA launched a Career Services webinar series led by Dr. Ronda Ansted. Dr. Ansted has spent most of her professional life in the non-profit and international development fields. She was a mid-career PCV in South Africa and became a career consultant.
EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament eLearning Course
Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, distance learning has become significantly more important to lecturers and students. As you might be aware, the EU established a European network of independent non-proliferation think tanks in 2010, managed by the six members of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium (EUNPDC). One major project of the consortium is the development and maintenance of this online course. The course is completely free of charge, GDPR compliant and does require registration only for users who want one of several certificates. Our course comprises fifteen learning units that cover a whole range of issues; including arms control theory and WMD, conventional weapons, humanitarian arms control, missiles and emerging technologies. It has been used by 1000+ persons already, and features in syllabi by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and other international institutions.