On October 7th, Kerry Brinkert, Director, Implementation Support Unit of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, will be giving a lecture in Persson hall at 7:30pm on “After the Spotlight Dims: Implementing the Global Ban on Land Mines”.  Mr. Brinkert is the person who bears responsibility for carrying out the eradication of landmines that is specified in the most widely-supported treaty on this matter, and his organization works with states, international organizations, and NGOs to remove landmines around the world and to assist the victims of landmines.  His talk will focus on the challenge of coordinating all of these organizations in their efforts to rid the world of landmines.

In addition to his talk to the larger Colgate University population, Mr. Brinkert will also be holding a lunchtime seminar discussion with a small number of PCON students as part of the Careers in PCON series.

For further information on Mr. Brinkert and his organization, please click on the links below.

http://www.gichd.org/about-gichd/staff-and-organisation-chart/kerry-brinkert/

http://www.apminebanconvention.org/

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Peace and Conflict Studies Fifth Annual Schaehrer Lecture will be held on in Love Auditorium, Olin Hall, at 7pm on October 3rd, 2013!

Erica Chenoweth, Why Civil Resistance Works: Unarmed Struggle in the Past and Future

Dr. Chenoweth is co-­winner of the 2013 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, for her 2011 book co-­‐authored with Maria Stephan Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Non-­Violent Conflict (Columbia University Press). She is assistant professor at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies and directs that school’s Program on Terrorism and Insurgency Research. She has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, and the University of California-­‐Berkeley’s Institute of International Studies.

• www.ericachenoweth.com
• Grawemeyer prize page

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In an era where the front lines of battle no longer exist, scholars work to understand the manner in which human conflict occurs. Seemingly gone are the days where the United States or most other nations would need to engage in war against another state. What, then, is the nature of armed conflict now, and how will it evolve in the coming years? This is the question that Peace and Conflict Studies’ Assistant Professor Jacob Mundy and former Post-doctoral Research Fellow Stephanie Fishel sought to answer when they organized the Wars Beyond War workshop, which took place at Colgate in March of 2012.

The workshop participants included Professors Dan Monk, Nancy Ries, and Susan Thomson, all members of Colgate’s Peace and Conflict Studies department. Scholar David Campbell, then holding Colgate’s O’Connor Chair, also participated.

Workshop presenters came to Colgate not only from around the country, but also from around the world, including China, Sweden, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Such topics as international terrorism, civil wars, humanitarian intervention, and unarmed drones were debated and discussed to the educational benefit of all attendees.

Each workshop presenter and participant has written extensively on these topics. Some of these scholar’s contributions to the workshop are now available in one cohesive academic journal, The new issue of Critical Issues on Security, with an introduction by Professor Mundy and an open-access article by Dr. Fishel, features the research presented at the workshop. These articles makes a significant effort to answer some of the most pressing questions as to how scholars and governments should respond to the ever changing sphere of human conflict. This special journal issue, building on the War Beyond Wars workshop workshop, represents yet another example of how Colgate’s Peace and Conflict Studies program is a leader in this rapidly evolving field.

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(Note: This story was written by Kevin Costello ’16, a student intern with the Peace and Conflict Studies Program)

One of the most valuable components of the student experience at Colgate is the direct access that undergraduates enjoy to leading experts and thinkers in academia. This is especially important in the complex and often bitterly partisan world of international conflicts. The Peace and Conflict Studies (PCON) program at Colgate has been successful in utilizing this connection to further student understanding about the complications of geopolitics in the context of human conflict.

The most recent example of this connection took place Thursday, September 12, when students packed into the Ho auditorium for a panel on the recent developments in Syria, co-sponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Civilization (MIST) Program and the PCON program. Read more

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