Internationally, 31 countries today are at serious risk of conflict management failure and 51 are at risk (1/2 of all countries polled) of emerging conflicts.
President Bush has recognized the value of conflict resolution in his National Fatherhood Initiative, which calls for $200 million in grants to community and religious groups to promote fatherhood, marriage education, and conflict resolution.
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ICCCR Past Projects
Interrupting Oppression and Sustaining Justice In addition to the work in conflict resolution for which the ICCCR is noted, is our work in the area of social justice. Our oppression and social justice faculty seminar on social justice stimulated the organizing of a two-day conference in 2003, to engage scholars, practitioners and activists working in these areas to join together across practices to inform each other and to organize cross-discipline interventions. Graduate students were an integral part of this initiative as there was a conscious effort made to engage, nurture and develop the next generation of scholars, practitioners and activists in this field. Results and follow-up activities from the conference are: a special guest-edited edition of the Journal of Social Justice Research; dialogue series with oppression and social justice as topics; the establishment of the Morton Deutsch Awards for Social Justice; and a series of formal and informal collaborations between academics, practitioners and activists.
New York City Community-Collaboratives Project In 1998, the ICCCR received a grant from the SURDNA Foundation to work with four community-based organizations in the New York City area to provide conflict resolution, organizational development and community development training. This grant provided funding for the Center to carry out research and evaluation on the effects of the training and its value in assisting grass-roots organizations in achieving their organizational and community level objectives. We extended the grant and partnered with community-based organizations to address school system conflicts and violence.
Iraqi-Kurdish Ethnic Delegation Training In 2000, in collaboration with the Center for International Conflict Resolution at SIPA, the ICCCR conducted a week-long joint training and Open Space intervention with high-ranking members of two warring ethnic factions from Iraq-Kurdistan.
