ICCCR Conducts Comprehensive Multi-Cultural Audit of Core Courses: The
2008-2009 Dean’s Fellowship Program for Teaching and Diversity at TC is
currently funding Mekayla Castro, an advanced Social-Organizational
Psychology PhD candidate and former Educational Coordinator at the
ICCCR, to conduct a multicultural audit of the Center’s core courses.
The International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution is
committed to working with sensitivity to cultural differences at the
interface of theory, research, and practice. The purpose of this
project is to enhance the multicultural competencies of the ICCCR core
curriculum. Although aspects of our curriculum have been designed to
address diversity and multicultural issues, we feel there is a need to
integrate these themes more centrally into our core-level courses,
thereby providing continuity across courses and enhancing the
multicultural thread inherent in the curriculum. The current project
involves a thorough assessment of the following core courses: ORLJ
5340: Basic Practicum in Conflict Resolution, ORLJ 6040: Fundamentals
of Cooperation, Conflict Resolution & Mediation in Different
Institutional Contexts, and ORLJ 5148: Managing Conflict in
Organizations. These are our 3 entry-level core courses, which are
attended by approximately 300 students a year.
Sister Elaine Roulet Receives the 2009 Morton Deutsch Scholar-Practitioner Award for Social Justice. On
Thursday, April 2nd 2009 Sister Elaine Roulet was honored as the award
recipient for the annual Deutsch Awards. Sister Elaine is a
long-standing advocate for the rights of women in prison and their
children. She devoted her life to bringing mothers in prison and their
children together, and during the ceremony she was honored by many of
the women and children she helped during her time with Bedford Hills
Correctional Facility. The event was truly magical and left everyone
with a sense of hope for the future and an awareness of the great power
of social justice. A link to the video of the 2009 Deutsch Awards will
be available on our website soon. Stay tuned!
Columbia's Earth Institute and ICCCR Host Strategic Meeting on Sustainable Peace. The
Earth Institute at Columbia University and ICCCR hosted a strategic
meeting in March which brought together a wide variety of experts in
conflict and peace with two main objectives: To engage in an
exploration of the current state of understanding and practice of
sustainable peace across disciplines, and to mobilize an initiative or
forum to enhance holistic, multi-disciplinary, scholar-practitioner
work on sustainable peace worldwide. This initiative builds on three
current trends in the field of conflict, violence, and peace studies:
1) a reorientation away from the study of conflict (problems) to the
study of peace (solutions), 2) movement away from simple, linear
theoretical models of cause-and-effect interventions toward more
complex models of peace and conflict situated within constellations of
bio-psycho-social-structural forces, and 3) a shift in emphasis away
from achieving peace agreements and outcomes and toward establishing
the conditions for sustainable peace dynamics in communities. The Earth
Institute’s leadership and expertise on fostering sustainable
development uniquely positions it to contribute to the refocusing of
conflict work toward building sustainable peace. This work will employ
systems-analytic tools and complex behavioral models, and will require
generation of new networks for research and development; ones that
include those working in sustainable development, as well as new
linkages between scholars. The objectives for this one-day meeting were
primarily strategic and organizational. More specifically, we
identified ways the Earth Institute and ICCCR can be leveraged as a
sponsor or advocate for building a forum and network for sustainable
peace-building.
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