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The Center for International Conflict Resolution regularly holds a number of special lectures, seminars, panels, and other events. Interested individuals should contact the center, cicr@columbia.edu, to be put on the Center’s mailing list. For a more complete list of events, please refer to CICR's website.
Event Highlights:
After the Vote: Challenges and Opportunities for a Two-State Sudan
Thursday, March 31, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 707
The Center for International Conflict Resolution and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting hosted Rebecca Hamilton, author of Fighting for Darfur and Special Correspondent on Sudan for The Washington Post spoke on the topic, “After the Vote: Challenges and Opportunities for a Two-State Sudan”.
Conversations with Alvaro de Soto series: “Negotiating for Palestine”
November 22, 2010
CICR had the honor of hosting another event in our Conversations with Alvaro de Soto series. Mr. de Soto’s guest of the evening was Ms. Diana Buttu, a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer who previously served as legal advisor to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as well as legal and communications advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
When people settle own differences: The role of development in sustaining peace
November 18, 2010
Mr. Jordan Ryan addressed a diverse audience at SIPA about the role of development in building peace in post-conflict settings. Mr. Ryan provided examples from three countries: Togo, Solomon Islands and Kenya. He illustrated the complexities of our interconnectedness and our global needs, and how development itself can also generate more conflicts as more resources, actors and interests emerge. According to Mr. Ryan, the key is to allow countries to grow and become capable, since more successful societies will be able to channel these potential conflicts by themselves.
Environmental Restoration: a Tool for Peace Building in Serbia
April 22, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
The Italian Academy at Columbia University
A Public Conversation With Sir Brian Urquhart
February 25, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Sir Brian Urquhart, a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations, served as an intelligence officer during World War II. After the war, he was transferred to a unit responsible for searching for Nazi scientists and military technology. Sir Urquhart was involved in the setting-up of the United Nations in 1945, and has advised every Secretary-General of the United Nations since its inception.He organized the first peacekeeping force. As Undersecretary-General, Sir Urquhart's main functions were the direction of peace-keeping forces in the Middle East and Cyprus, and negotiations in these two areas; amongst others, his contributions also included work on the negotiations relating to a Namibia peace settlement, negotiations in Kashmir, Lebanon and work on peaceful uses for nuclear energy. Sir Urquhart has published several books about his life and the UN and is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.
Alvaro de Soto, a Peruvian ambassador, held senior positions in the UN Secretariat from 1982 to 2007 including thirteen years in the Secretary-General's Office and five years as Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs. During this time he discharged a number of special assignments including, as Personal Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central American Peace Process, leading the negotiations that culminated in the 1992 peace accords ending the decade-long war in El Salvador, and conducting six missions to Myanmar as the Secretary-General's Special Envoy. He also led the 1999-2004 negotiations on Cyprus that ended with the referendums on a reunification plan mainly drafted by the UN. He was the Secretary-General's Special Representative for the Western Sahara from late 2003 to early 2005. His final assignment, from 2005 to 2007, was as UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. He is a Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute and an Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and a member of the Global Leadership Foundation.
Environment, Natural Resources and Eco-Tourism: Tools for Peace Building, State Building and Sustainable Development; The Balkans in Focus, with Comparative Perspectives
January 29, 2010
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
The Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR), in partnership with the Italian Ministry for Environment Land and Sea, engaged a selection of high-level practitioners, academics and policymakers in a multi-disciplinary exploration of key issues related to sustainable development, environmental policymaking and peace building in the Balkans. The purpose of this one-day seminar was to explore cutting edge issues in a multi-disciplinary and comparative framework in order to improve existing policies, strengthen activities where needed, and to offer comparative approaches and insights from around the world.
A Public Conversation With Ambassador Alvaro de Soto and Mr. Martin Griffiths
October 28, 2009 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Columbia Law School (Jerome Greene) room 101
The Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) hosted "International Conflict Resolution in the New Millennium, " a public conversation with Ambassador Alvaro De Soto, former Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Martin Griffiths founding Director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD Centre), one of the world’s leading conflict resolution organizations. In the ten years of HD’s existence, Griffiths personally led mediations in 6 different conflicts, and borne overall responsibility for HD’s involvement in a further 15-20 peace processes. Before founding HD, Griffiths was a senior humanitarian official in the United Nations.
Counter Insurgency in Colombia
Tuesday, September 8, 2009–Friday, September 18, 2009
The Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) presents photos taken by Anthropologist and CICR Director Aldo Civico in an exhibition entitled, "Counter Insurgency in Colombia."
Negotiating Peace to Civil War—Lessons from Central America and the Middle East
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) presented "Negotiating Peace to Civil War: Lessons from Central
America and the Middle East," a discussion with Francesc Vendrell (Former Head of the United Nations Special Mission to
Afghanistan, Secretary-General's Representative in the Guatemala peace negotiations, Secretary-General's Deputy
Representative in the El Salvador peace process and Nicaraguan Peace Negotiations); and Alvaro de Soto (International
Mediator). This is the second event in the CICR series "Conversations with Alvaro de Soto."
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Wounds of Peace: The Arab- Israeli Conflict After Gaza
Friday, March
27, 2009
The Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) hosted The Alvaro de Soto Conversations entitled, "Wounds of
Peace: The Arab-Israeli Conflict After Gaza," with Shlomo Ben Ami, former Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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Conflict Transformation Facilitation Training Course
Friday, January 02, 2009–Saturday, January 10, 2009
Center of International Conflict Resolution (CICR) and Abraham's vision are organizing a unique course in Conflict transformation facilitating. The course will take place at Columbia University from the 2nd to the 10th of January. The aim of this course is to qualify participants to work as facilitators of groups in conflict in top, middle, and grassroots level settings.
CICR events are also listed on the SIPA Events Calendar