Students Convene to Reflect on CT Funded Summer Experiences
There has never been a greater need for constructive conversation between experts from the United States, Russia, and China—nor fewer spaces or opportunities for it.
At the Middlebury Institute, you don’t have to wait until you graduate to practice advanced language skills in a professional setting.
At Harvard University, the administration and student groups have been engulfed in controversy and doxxing after issuing statements on the Israel-Palestine conflict. At Dartmouth College, two students were recently arrested for camping out to protest the school’s approach to the war. And at Columbia University, student organizations have staged huge protests, while professors have come under national scrutiny and faced petitions calling for their removal.
| by Sarah Bidgood, Robert Carlin, Siegfried Hecker, Jim Lamson, and and Hanna Notte
Drawing from the work of Zachary Shore and others, we define strategic empathy as “the sincere effort to identify and assess the genuine patterns of an adversary’s acquisition, threat of use, and use of strategic weapons and the underlying drivers and constraints that shape them.” This concept encapsulates a mindset, a lens, and an approach that help us to understand an adversary’s strategic thinking.
| by Cole Chaudhari
As the first in a series of interfaith discussions, an Oct. 25 panel on compassion, justice and nonviolence sought to bring a diverse array of religious perspectives to the campus conversation about the conflict in the region.
| by Marin Howell
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College’s ongoing work with the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation, or KWDCCT, continues to create opportunities for members of the college community to explore different types of conflict and how they approach that friction.
There is no shortage of conflict in our modern world—ranging from a fight with a loved one to the threat of nuclear war. Can these conflicts be shifted from destructive to constructive? How?
Those questions are at the heart of a seven-year Middlebury initiative, which began in 2022.
The new award of up to $50,000 goes to human rights and education activist Joseph Kaifala, a war survivor from Sierra Leone who has worked to bring about peace and stability following years of conflict.