Professor Jacob Mundy has a newly-published book titled Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence:  Conflict Science, Conflict Management, Anti-politics. Stanford University Press, Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures, 2015. http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23799

Professor Alexander Karn has a newly-published book titled Amending the Past:  Europe’s Holocaust Commissions and the Right to History. University of Wisconsin Press, 2015.  http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5087.htm

Professor Teo Ballve was extensively quoted in the following article on the peace talks currently taking place in Columbia. http://www.frontline.in/world-affairs/at-the-edge-of-peace/article7911985.ece

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Assistant Professor Susan Thomson’s book, “Whispering Truth to Power: Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda”, has been named one of the outstanding books of the year by the University of Wisconsin Press.  See more here: http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5148.htm

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Professor Karen Harpp and her popular course, “The Advent of the Atomic Bomb”, are profiled this month in the Chronicle of Higher Education.  You can read the article here:
http://chronicle.com/article/One-Reason-to-Offer-Free/151163

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Writing about Western Sahara and Morocco in a feature article online at World Politics Review, Professor Jacob Mundy asserted that “a web of geopolitical interests keeps the conflict in a permanent state of limbo.”

Mundy, assistant professor of peace and conflict studies, looks for a disruptive event to “unbalance the deadlock,” though, he wrote, the likeliest events — the Arab Spring, the 2012 Mali crisis, and renewed oil and gas interest in the area – all have failed to do so, at least thus far.

Mundy’s conclusion: “Right now, oil is the factor to watch when it comes to the Western Sahara dispute.”

Mundy has taught at Colgate since fall 2011. He is co-author of Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution and co-editor and contributor to The Post-Conflict Environment: Investigation and Critique. His forthcoming book is Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence.

Read Mundy’s September 16 article here (PDF). He has been quoted in the Washington Post, USA Today, Boston Globe and other outlets.

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Boiling Point: Professor Susan Thomson maintains a cool demeanor despite having lived through heated moments in Africa.

“Good people do bad things, and bad people do good things,” said Professor Susan Thomson.

Read entire article here.

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This story was originally published by the Upstate Institute at Colgate University.

Emily Luba ’16 is new to the Field School this summer, and is working with two organizations that are new as well. Emily is a double major in Peace and Conflict Studies and Geography from Vancouver, and is working with community development start-ups Waterville First and the Horned Dorset Colony.

Emily Luba ’16 provides photos for the Horned Dorset Colony in Leonardsville

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Link to NY Times:  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/18/opinion/why-are-rwandans-disappearing.html?_r=0

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Professor Thomson wrote (with Marie-Eve Desrosiers, University of Ottawa) a chapter in the new book Globetrotting or Global Citizenship: Perils and Potential of International Experiential Learning.

The chapter examines experiential learning in difficult environments, using postgenocide Rwanda as a case study.

Click here to learn more about the publication.

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