Course Highlights
GVPT 409J/808J or WINT 002: Multi-Track Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation
GVPT 409K/808K or WINT 003: Workshop in Citizens’ Diplomacy
(January 2-January 22)
This is a program for those struggling with the always corrosive, often devastating impact of persistent conflict on relationships and community, in day-to-day situations or internationally. Join us for an intensive evening and weekend program of experiential learning and new perspectives on ways to bring about conflict transformation and peacebuilding. The goal is to develop the knowledge and skills needed to facilitate the transformation of interpersonal, organizational, community or complex societal conflicts, including ethnic, religious or cultural tensions, using techniques of multi-track and citizens’ diplomacy. These techniques, applicable at all levels of society, provide an essential complement to official (“first track”) diplomacy and police work, from conflicts in the workplace, to dealing with terrorist or insurgent activities, as currently in our work in the Middle East, India, Pakistan and elsewhere.
The Winter Program gives a theoretical and experiential basis for applying these methods, drawing on the cumulative experience of researchers and scholar-practitioners at CIDCM working with Partners in Conflict, Partners in Peacebuilding and related projects around the world. Visiting speakers are expected to include Ambassador John McDonald, founder of the Institute of Multi-Track Diplomacy.
This year we will be using multi-track diplomacy to search for common ground for dialogue between the new Palestinian and Israeli governments. A planned simulation, between influentials with access to the newly elected Hamas (Palestinian) and Kadima (Israeli) leadership, will include Arab and Jewish participants and will be co-facilitated by an Israeli American, Prof. Edward (Edy) Kaufman, and a Muslim American, Prof. John Davies, both with rich experience using multi-track diplomacy in many countries suffering from war, terrorism and instability in the Middle East and around the world. In an effort to bridge the negotiation gap between new leaders of parties that remain caught in cycles of violence and terror, unofficial channels will be explored using leading-edge interactive techniques. Results will help to inform ongoing multi-track work in the Middle East.
GVPT 409J/808J or WINT 002
Instructors: Prof. John Davies, with Edy Kaufman
Class Schedule: Twelve 3.5 hour seminars: Mon-Fri evenings 6.00-9.15 pm, January 2-22, except Fri 4th and 11th when participants will be expected to join the 409K/808K or WINT 003 class, and Mon 21st Martin Luther King Day (snow days are January 19-20 if needed)
GVPT 409K/808K or WINT 003
Instructors: Prof. Edy Kaufman, with John Davies
Classes: Two consecutive weekend workshops: Friday evenings 6-9pm, Saturday and Sundays 9am-1pm and 2-6pm, January 4-6 and 11-13 (snow days are January 19-20 if needed)
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