Dear Colleagues

I am pleased to announce my new edited book Integrated Peacebuilding. Innovative Approaches to Transforming Conflict (Westview, March 2013) with contributions from leading scholars and practitioners has been released this week.     The book (see below for an…

Dear Colleagues

I am pleased to announce forthcoming publication of new book I have edited with contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, Integrated Peacebuilding. Innovative Approaches to Transforming Conflict(Westview, March 2013).  Below please find information…

by David Bornstein

This originally appeared in the New York Times as a Fixes column.

If you wanted to get large numbers of people actively engaged in helping to solve global…

Article found here: Resolving Hybrid Conflicts: The Bougainville Story

If you are interested in hybrid conflicts (blending of state and non-state actors and issues in violent conflicts), the region of Oceania, environmental sustainability, or ways in which indigenous and westernized models of conflict prevention, management, and resolution can be…

The editors of the 4th Essential Field Guide to Afghanistan and the Region have just published their new information portal www.efgafghan.com that will not only help update future editions of the Afghan handbook - to be published later this year - but also to serve as an critical internet magazine. Portions of the 4th edition of the EFGA are already online, but we're also seeking insightful and well-written…

Woody Guthrie, born 100 years ago. Usually excised from his anthem is the line “Is this land made for you and me?” Photo by Robin Carson, circa 1942. Courtesy of Woody Guthrie Archives.

By Beverly Bell

November 1,…

As of October, the UOC School for Cooperation will validate subjects on the Master's in Conflictology in English for United Nations personnel who are studying on any of the courses on the UNITAR training programme. Thanks to this institutional collaboration, many of the workers on peace missions will be able to gain a UOC university…

Mwariki, Nakuru County

Inadequate housing structures continue to be a problem for many Kenyans. This is the issue that Sam Muiruri is trying to combat. His organization, Charisma Community Services and their specific project called Charisma Ecology are working to build structures made of plastic bottles. It is his way of providing inexpensive housing to many of Kenya’s citizens.…

As do all human activities, our attempts to respond to and engage with conflict have environmental impact. Any intervention – mediation, peacebuilding activities, training, workshops, and so forth – can be performed in different ways, some of which are inherently more environmentally adverse than others.

In a new article, entitled …

By Beverly Bell

June 12, 2012

Welcome to Birthing Justice: Women Creating Economic and Social Alternatives. The series features twelve alternative social and economic models which expand the possibilities for justice, equity, and strong community. They are based in the US, Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Some are national-level, some global-level. Some are propelled by people’s movements, some forced or adopted into government…

What makes ODR the most environmentally-friendly form of dispute resolution? And - how can the ODR field benefit as a result? A new article explores the green power of ODR.

                                                                  [Originally posted on my blog at…

Recently I’ve been reading “The Future State of the World: As It Relates to the Australian Aid Program” which was commissioned by the Australian government ahead of the significant expansion of their overseas aid program.  It makes for interesting, if not disturbing, reading.  Anybody who has spent a few minutes thinking about the range of complex problems the world faces cannot be unaware of how interconnected the challenges are. …

Leo Hickman

The climate debate rages on without progress, but a ‘meeting of moderate minds’ might be the answer

PH MURDER OF CONSERVATIONISTS COULD TRIGGER ECO-FASCIST ARMING

Erle Frayne D. Argonza

Good day from the boondocks west of Manila!

A chilling, cryptic news about the murder of a forest ranger of the University of the Philippines in Los Baňos or UPLB struck a hard cord on the public mind recently. Elpidio Malinao, forest guard for the UPLB that owns and manages the entire Mt. Makiling, was gunned down while doing his…