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<div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">The University of Massachusetts-Boston, FLACSO-Ecuador, and the Center for Mediation, Peace, and Resolution of Conflict (CEMPROC) are pleased to announce:</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">The fourth annual<span> </span><b>Summer Institute on Conflict Transformation Across Borders</b><span> </span>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 <a href="http://www.caps.umb.edu/conflict_transformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-LPlnk84758">http://www.caps.umb.edu/conflict_transformation</a>. The application deadline is April 23, 2018.</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><span style="font-size:12pt">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).</span><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">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.</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">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.</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">More details and applications are available online at <a href="http://www.caps.umb.edu/conflict_transformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-LPlnk406730">http://www.caps.umb.edu/conflict_transformation</a> (the deadline to apply is April 23, 2018). Questions can be directed to Cecile Mouly at <a href="mailto:camouly@flacso.edu.ec">camouly@flacso.edu.ec</a> .</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">==============</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">Representative Topics</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">-Border disputes and bi-national dialogue/peace processes, the cases of Ecuador-Colombia, Haiti-Dominican Republic, and Ecuador-Peru</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">-Human security vs. national security in border regions</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">-Transnational dimensions of conflict and peacebuilding</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">-Skills workshop: Conflict analysis</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">-Border disputes and binational dialogue/peace processes the cases of Ecuador-Colombia and </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"> Ecuador-Peru</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">-Forced migration and social conflict in migrant-receiving communities</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">-Skills workshop: Negotiation and mediation</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">-The role of Ecuador as a guarantor in the peace process between the Colombian government </div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"> and ELN</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">-Skills workshop: Project development and proposal writing</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">-Conflict involving transnational environmental challenges</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">-Indigenous identity, ethnicity and conflict in border regions</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">-Skills workshop: Methodologies of conflict transformation and alternatives to violence (PAV)</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">-The role of UNASUR in the mediation of conflict in South America</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">-Security sector reform; disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) and the Colombian armed conflict</div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">Check out the outcomes, student reflections, published articles, and photos from the past years' Summer Institutes at <a href="https://conflicttransformationborders.wordpress.com/conflict-transformation-across-border-regions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-LPlnk664610">https://conflicttransformationborders.wordpress.com/conflict-transformation-across-border-regions/</a> . </div><br style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><br></div><div><br></div><div><div id="gmail-x_Signature"><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2" color="black"><span id="gmail-x_Signature" style="font-size:16px"><div id="gmail-x_divtagdefaultwrapper"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="3"><span id="gmail-x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt"><div style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div><font color="#212121"><div style="margin:0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt">---------</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br>Jeffrey D. Pugh</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br>Assistant Professor</span></font></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt">Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br>University of Massachusetts, Boston</span></font></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="https://um-boston.academia.edu/JeffPugh" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPNoLP"><span id="gmail-LPNoLP"></span></a><a href="https://www.umb.edu/faculty_staff/bio/jeffrey_pugh" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPlnk484984"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span id="gmail-LPlnk484984" style="font-size:11pt">https://www.umb.edu/faculty_staff/bio/jeffrey_pugh</span></font></a><br><br></span></font></div></font></div><div><font color="#212121"><div style="margin:0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt">Executive Director</span></font></span></font></div></font></div><div><font color="#212121"><div style="margin:0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt">Center for Mediation, Peace, and Resolution of Conflict (CEMPROC)</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br>Quito, Ecuador</span></font></span></font></div></font></div></font></div></span></font></div></span></font></div><div id="gmail-x_Signature"><div id="gmail-x_divtagdefaultwrapper"><span id="gmail-x_divtagdefaultwrapper"><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"></span><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px;margin:0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></font><a href="http://www.cemproc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPNoLP"><font color="purple"><span id="gmail-LPNoLP"></span></font></a></span></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px;margin:0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt">Recent publications: </span></font></span></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px;margin:0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12344/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" size="2" color="#005A8B"><span style="font-size:15px;background-color:transparent"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">“Negotiating Identity and Belonging through the Invisibility Bargain: Colombian Forced Migrants in Ecuador,” </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>International Migration Review.</i></span></font></span></font></a></span></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px;margin:0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px;margin:0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/laps.12028/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" size="2" color="#005A8B"><span style="font-size:15px;background-color:transparent"></span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" size="2" color="#005A8B"><span style="font-size:15px;background-color:transparent"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">"Universal Citizenship through the Discourse and Policy of Rafael Correa," </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>Latin American Politics and </i></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>Society</i></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"> 59, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 98-121.</span></font></span></font></a></span></font></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">
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