A Conversation – Reza Aslan on God: A Human History 

October 26, 2020

Join us during this discussion as we continue the 20th anniversary celebration of the Center for Islamic and Arabic studies.

MOOC on Promoting and Protecting Human Rights: a Global Overview

Registration is open! The course provides participants with a solid basis to understand, know and stand up for human rights. It is articulated in 2 modules:

• Module 1 (two classes) focuses on the international framework of human rights promotion and protection and is recommended for all participants.
• Module 2 (five classes) is dedicated to regional perspectives on the standards, mechanisms, benefits and challenges in five regions of the world: Africa, the Americas, the Arab World, Asia Pacific, and Europe. This module is elective and can be composed of minimum 1 and maximum 5 classes.

Designed in cooperation with the Coordinators of the 7 Regional Master’s Programmes of the Global Campus, the course is taught by academics and experts drawn from all regions of the world, enabling participants to benefit from rich and varied competences.

Build Peace 2020 

November 6-8, 2020

The Build Peace 2020 conference will focus on social justice and the coronavirus pandemic in the digital age as this plays out across three relevant sub-themes: identity polarization, urban space, and surveillance capitalism.

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.