[Lasa] 2019 Summer Institute on Conflict Transformation across Borders in Ecuador: Applications due April 19

[Jeff Pugh]

Dear colleagues,
I would appreciate your help in forwarding this announcement to relevant
list serves, students at your institution, graduates, faculty, and
professionals who might be interested.  As the Venezuelan crisis produces
massive numbers of displaced persons to neighboring countries, Colombia
works to implement its historic peace agreement, and immigration/refugee
issues and conflicts at the U.S.-Mexico border have been a daily feature in
the news, this practical and intensive program is especially timely for
those seeking solutions.
Thanks!
Jeff Pugh

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

The fifth annual *Summer Institute on Conflict Transformation Across
Borders* will take place from July 1-19, 2019 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 19, 2019.

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. Jeff Pugh, 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 19, 2018). Questions can be directed to Jeff Pugh at
jeffrey.pugh at umb.edu .

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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
-Forced migration, integration, and social conflict in migrant-receiving
communities
-Regional approaches to migration challenges: Venezuelans in Ecuador and
Brazil, Central Americans on the U.S./Mexico Border
-Skills workshop: Negotiation and mediation
-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)
-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/
.
 A short video is available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahc4yZjzvVk&t=2s .



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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


Visiting Assistant Professor of Conflict Management
Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

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.*
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0197918318781845>

"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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