Extracurricular Opportunities: Week of November 23, 2020

Global Leadership and Innovation Virtual Program

Application Deadline: November 30, 2020

The Global Leadership & Innovation Virtual Program (GL&I) is a two-week interactive online training ground for aspiring global leaders and innovators.

The COVID-19 crisis, along with recent events in the US that have
highlighted continuing systemic racism, have reminded us of the dire need
for humanity to find and apply creative solutions to the world’s problems —
from systemic oppression in all its forms to global public health to
climate change and beyond. The time to tap into, and unleash, our full
potential as leaders and innovators is now.


Women, Peace, and Security: Cross-Regional Challenges and Opportunities

December 2, 2020, 11 AM-12 PM (EST)
Join us for an event examining developments in the #WomenPeaceAndSecurity agenda by exploring issues and themes across Africa, Asia, and Europe with speakers Major General Suzanne Vares-Lum, Adm. James G. Foggo III, Ms. Julia McQuaid, and Ms. Nilanthi Samaranayake. RSVP to nilanthi@cna.org.

Tenth Annual Graduate Education Symposium in Peace and Conflict Resolution

December 4-5, 2020

This year’s symposium will focus on Embracing Virtual Technology in Teaching and Practice and Structural Peacebuilding in the United States.

Unlike in previous years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s symposium, hosted by the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University, will take place online over two days, Friday, December 4th and Saturday, December 5th, 2020. Both sessions will be held between 12pm and 2:30pm EST. December 4th session will focus on Embracing Virtual Technology in Teaching and Practice. December 5th session will focus on Structural Peacebuilding in the United States.

The graduate education symposium provides a forum for educators, administrators, researchers, practitioners, staff and students of Master’s and Doctoral programs in peace and conflict studies, peacebuilding, and conflict resolution, to discuss how academic programs are training the next generation of scholar-practitioners, to share curricular, professional skills building and administrative innovations, and to foster collaborative interaction and cross-fertilization among programs. This year’s symposium follows nine previous annual meetings on various themes that have gathered an increasing number of graduate programs engaged in a combination of domestic and international conflict resolution and peacebuilding activities


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.


Call For Papers: Journal for Peace and Justice Studies

Deadline for submission: January 15, 2021

The Journal for Peace and Justice studies is seeking scholarly articles for
publication in our next edition. The Journal publishes a variety of
disciplines, including but not limited to, philosophy, theology, social and
political theories, public policy, nursing, law, and education. While it
encourages contributions arising from the Judeo-Christian intellectual
traditions, the Journal welcomes submissions from any perspective that
promotes peace and seeks to build a just society.

Manuscript submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter containing
all contact information and title of the essay. No identifying information
may be in the submission itself. All manuscripts submitted for publication
must be prepared for blind review. Articles should be double-spaced
throughout. An abstract of 100 to 150 words and a bibliography must be included with the submission. Authors are advised to use inclusive language throughout the manuscript, and to follow the Chicago Manual Style Sheet (CMS).

For more information, contact the editor at eugene.mccarraher@villanova.edu. Please submit your original manuscript to jpjs@villanova.edu.


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.


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.

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