[Lasa] 2018 Summer Institute on Conflict Transformation across Borders, Quito-Ecuador: Apply by April 23

[Jeff Pugh]

 The University of Massachusetts-Boston, FLACSO-Ecuador, and the Center for
Mediation, Peace, and Resolution of Conflict (CEMPROC) are pleased to
announce:

The fourth annual *Summer Institute on Conflict Transformation Across
Borders* will take place from July 1-21, 2018 in  Quito, Ecuador at FLACSO,
with graduate-level credit issued by UMass Boston. The program will focus
on conflict and peace in border regions, including immigration and
refugee-related conflict.  More info and application instructions are
available at http://www.caps.umb.edu/conflict_transformation.  The
application deadline is April 23, 2018.

The program will feature a series of high-level guest speakers (past years
have included a former Ecuadorian Minister of Foreign Relations, UN
resident director, former ambassadors, UNASUR officials, UN peacekeeper
involved in the Nicaraguan demobilization process, military officers in the
border region, refugee leaders, NGO activists, and more).

This course is designed to equip early-career professionals, graduate and
advanced undergraduate students, and other future peacebuilders with
practical tools, knowledge, and hands-on experience to understand the
complexities of conflicts in refugee communities and across border regions,
and the types of interventions that can be used to transform these
conflicts.

The program will include classroom learning; trips to the Amazon cloud
forest and the northern border region; practical skills training workshops
on conflict analysis, negotiation, cross-cultural communication, and
proposal writing; and participants will design their own proposal for a
peacebuilding project, receiving feedback from a panel of experienced
experts in the field.  In this sense, the Summer Institute is not just a
learning or training opportunity, but a platform for action that connects a
cohort of future peacebuilders and empowers them to address the complex
conflicts related to borders, migration and refugees, and transnational
environmental challenges that face the world today.  Core faculty leaders
are Dr. Yves-Renee Jennings, UMass Boston and Dr. Cecile Mouly, FLACSO
Ecuador.

More details and applications are available online at
http://www.caps.umb.edu/conflict_transformation (the deadline to apply is
April 23, 2018). Questions can be directed to Cecile Mouly at
camouly at flacso.edu.ec .

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Representative Topics

-Border disputes and bi-national dialogue/peace processes, the cases of
Ecuador-Colombia, Haiti-Dominican Republic, and Ecuador-Peru
-Human security vs. national security in border regions
-Transnational dimensions of conflict and peacebuilding
-Skills workshop: Conflict analysis
-Border disputes and binational dialogue/peace processes the cases of
Ecuador-Colombia and
  Ecuador-Peru
-Forced migration and social conflict in migrant-receiving communities
-Skills workshop: Negotiation and mediation
-The role of Ecuador as a guarantor in the peace process between the
Colombian government
  and ELN
-Skills workshop: Project development and proposal writing
-Conflict involving transnational environmental challenges
-Indigenous identity, ethnicity and conflict in border regions
-Skills workshop: Methodologies of conflict transformation and alternatives
to violence (PAV)
-The role of UNASUR in the mediation of conflict in South America
-Security sector reform; disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration
(DDR) and the Colombian armed conflict

Check out the outcomes, student reflections, published articles, and photos
from the past years' Summer Institutes at
https://conflicttransformationborders.wordpress.com/conflict-transformation-across-border-regions/
.




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Jeffrey D. Pugh
Assistant Professor
Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance
University of Massachusetts, Boston
<https://um-boston.academia.edu/JeffPugh>
https://www.umb.edu/faculty_staff/bio/jeffrey_pugh

Executive Director
Center for Mediation, Peace, and Resolution of Conflict (CEMPROC)
Quito, Ecuador

<http://www.cemproc.org/>
Recent publications:
“Negotiating Identity and Belonging through the Invisibility Bargain:
Colombian Forced Migrants in Ecuador,” *International Migration Review.*
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12344/full>

"Universal Citizenship through the Discourse and Policy of Rafael
Correa," *Latin
American Politics and **Society* 59, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 98-121.
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/laps.12028/full>
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