Professors engage in panel discussion
Professors Netta Avineri, Philipp Bleek, and Lyuba Zarsky engage in a panel discussion.

Presentations and discussions featuring the Conflict Transformation Fellows showcasing their work.

Transforming Conflict

On May 5, 2023, the Graduate Pillar of the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation hosted a day of dialogue, storytelling, and discussion about conflict transformation at local and global scales: community-based advocacy, countering extremism, environmental conflict, intercultural engagement, peacebuilding, and more. 65 Conflict Transformation Fellows as well as faculty and staff shared in a range of formats about their year-long projects, courses, research, immersive experiences, and community engagement focused on social change.

Watch recordings of the sessions using the links below.

Group 1

  1. Alden “Eli” Horton: Reaching Agreements in U.S.-Russia Strategic Arms Control Negotiations
  2. Megan Spitzer: Conflict Transformation through Binational Coordination of the Tijuana River Watershed
  3. Leo Eckel: Digital Inspired Far Right Extremism
  4. Hayle Siow & Eda Ergun Binen: Role of mediator countries in global conflicts
  5. Madeline Berzak: Legacy of Nuclear Testing in French Polynesia: Anthropology in the Age of the Stakeholder Problem
  6. Marisa Jones: Water Conflict Along the Brahmaputra River
  7. Arthur Eschback: Sourcing of materials for green transition
  8. Rachel Herring: Domestic Decarbonization Strategies and Indigenous Sovereignty
  9. Lily Edelman Gold: The Future of Fair Fueling: Access to EV Charging in the Transition to a Zero-Emission Transportation Sector
  10. Mary Zuccarello: Contained Animal Feeding Operations and Community Conflict
  11. Dylan Moglen & Alex Christodoulou: Indigenous Approaches to social and environmental conflict in the Amazon Basin
  12. Clara Greenfield: Parks as third spaces and the social implications
  13. Molly Ryan & Iao Harrowe: Tracking the Ghost Fleet
  14. Elizabeth Speece: Transformational Community Work in Costa Rica 
  15. Martin E. Juarez Manzano: Rethinking Police Presence & Visible Power: A Qualitative Study of Stakeholder Experiences with Monterey Police Department’s Soft Uniform Pilot Program
  16. Maria Zaharatos & Karan Kunwar: Beyond Performativity: the Land Acknowledgement Process at MIIS
  17. Nicole Irigoyen: Foster Youth Are Not Future Prisoners: Interrupting the school-to-prison pipeline through radical love and care
  18. Dayna Brown: Period Local: A Multilingual, Accessible Menstrual Health Resource
  19. Katarina Zomer: Magyar Only? Hungary’s refugee hypocrisy
  20. Hannah Ritchey: Cultural Experiences of Middle Eastern Immigrants to Sweden
  21. Nancy Kwang Johnson: Reimagining Diaspora Communities in Refugee Third Spaces: Using “I am” Poetry and Theatre of the Oppressed Plays for Empowerment
  22. Guiqiong Chen: The securitization pathway of Tech-NGOs
  23. Kaitlyn Tierney (Cohort Fellow) and Frances Breidenstein (GA Fellow): CTEC / Diverting Hate
  24. Cascade Kirst: Changing the way the U.S. government investigates terrorism and talking with ex-law enforcement
  25. Tessa Yumbe, Chia Yagoda, and Galen Gibian: MetaLab / Coalition of Homeless Service Providers GA Fellows

Group 2

  1. Giovanna Rodrigues Manfrin: Evidence-Based Framework for Inclusive Security 
  2. Hannah Harris: From SLBMs to Shooting Stars: Transforming Conflict Through Peaceful Scientific Cooperation Between Nuclear Allies and Adversaries in East Asia
  3. Taylor Chin: What can we learn from those who left extremism?
  4. Raider Fowler: CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) Curriculum
  5. Shizuka Kuramitsu: Bake Don’t Bomb
  6. Tremaine Smith: Conflict Transformation in International Education
  7. Raina Carroll: Bias in Translation
  8. Julian Hernandez-Webster: The Floor is Lava: Navigating Conflict in Migrant Integration Processes in Costa Rica
  9. John Ciarico: The Language of Loss and Damage Funding
  10. Robin Riebman & Juliette Green: Digital Preparedness Handbook
  11. Dee Gollah: Learning Opportunities for Transformation Unity and Support (LOTUS): Conflict resolution workshop and training
  12. MacKenzie Van Meter: The Ontology of Conflict: Uncovering a Path to Transformation
  13. Konstantin Larinov: Debunking myths surrounding the use of WMD, confronting the promotion of “nuclear” information warfare
  14. Femi Higgins: Fostering Ethnic and Ethical Relationships (Projects for Peace awardee

Panel 1

Moderator: Thor Sawin

  1. Cascade Kirst: Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
  2. Alden “Eli” Horton: Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
  3. Konstantin Larionov: MIIS-MGIMO Dual Degree in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
  4. Hannah Harris: MIIS-MGIMO Dual Degree in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
  5. Leo Eckel: Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
  6. Hayle Siow: Translation and Localization Management
  7. Eda Ergun Binen: Translation and Localization Management
  8. Taylor Chin: Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
  9. Madeline Berzak: Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
  10. Morgan Fowle (CTEC Diverting Hate GA Fellow): Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
  11. Kojin Glick and Lisa Levina: Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies; Carly Zilge: International Education Management (CTEC Wagner Group GA Fellows)

Panel 2

Moderator: Jason Scorse

  1. Marisa Jones: International Trade
  2. Arthur Eschbach: International Environmental Policy
  3. Rachel Herring: International Environmental Policy
  4. Mary Zuccarello: International Environmental Policy
  5. Raider Fowler: International Education Management/Public Administration
  6. Dylan Moglen: International Policy and Development/Public Administration
  7. Alex Christodoulou: International Environmental Policy
  8. Clara Greenfield: International Environmental Policy
  9. Molly Ryan: International Environmental Policy
  10. Iao Harrowe: International Policy and Development/Public Administration
  11. Megan Spitzer: International Environmental Policy
  12. Lily Edelman-Gold: International Environmental Policy

Panel 3

Moderator: Rana Issa

  1. Shizuka Kuramitsu: Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
  2. Elizabeth Speece: Translation and Interpretation 
  3. Martin E. Juarez Manzano: Public Administration
  4. Kaitlyn Tierney: International Policy and Development
  5. Giovanna Rodrigues Manfrin: Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
  6. Maria Zaharatos: Public Administration
  7. Karan Kunwar: International Environmental Policy
  8. John Ciarico: International Environmental Policy
  9. Nicole Irigoyen: International Education Management/Public Administration
  10. Raina Carroll: Translation and Localization Management 
  11. Guiqiong Chen: International Policy and Development/International Trade

Panel 4

Moderator: Carolyn Taylor Meyer

  1. Katarina Zomer: International Policy and Development
  2. Hannah Ritchey: Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
  3. Julian Hernandez-Webster: International Policy and Development/Public Administration
  4. Nancy Kwang Johnson: International Policy and Development
  5. Robin Riebman: International Education Management
  6. Juliette Green: International Education Management
  7. MacKenzie Van Meter: International Trade
  8. Dee Gollah: Teaching Foreign Language
  9. Dayna Brown: Translation and Localization Management
  10. Tremaine Smith: International Education Management/Public Administration