2023 Conflict Transformation Annual Seminar

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.

Recordings

• Faculty Panel: Conflict Transformation Pedagogy, Inquiry, and Action
• Group 2: CT Cohort Fellows Interactive Project Sharing
• Panel 1: Transforming Political Conflicts
• Panel 2: Intersections Between Social & Environmental Conflict 
• Panel 3: Supporting Social Justice through Conflict Transformation
• Panel 4: Conflict, Movement, and Education

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