The Issues
- Official, governmental approaches to peacemaking
- Non-governmental organizations
- Private citizen initiatives
- Advocacy and social movements
- The media and the arts in conflict resolution
- Religion's role in conflict and conflict resolution
- Education, Training and Research
- The economics of conflict and post-conflict rebuilding
- The social psychology of group identity
- The nature of conflict escalation
- Unequal distribution of power and privilege:conflicts around race, gender, class and culture
- Analysis of conflict in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, the Middle East, and elsewhere
- Basic communication, mediation and facilitation skills
Off-campus Seminar Locations
- Embassy of the Russian Federation
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
- Capitol Hill
- Cato Institute
- American Foreign Service Association
- Washington Headquarters of the International Campaign for Tibet
- Embassy of the People’s Republic of China
- American Task Force on Palestine
- Recent Guest Speakers
- Dr. William Inboden, Senior Advisor to the President and Director for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform, National Security Council, The White House
- Richard Newfarmer, Senior Economist, World Bank
- His Excellency Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Former Foreign Minister of Afghanistan
- Ms. Irene Klinger, Director of External Relations, Organization of American States
- Dr. Ted G. Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute
- Mr. Colman McCarthy, Founder and Director of the Center for Teaching Peace and former Journalist with The Washington Post
- Mr. Matthew Taylor, First Secretary in charge Trans-Atlantic, European Union, NATO and ESDP, European Defense, and United Nations Affairs Embassy of the United Kingdom of the Once Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Mr. Christopher Hellman, Defense Budget and Policy Analyst, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
- John Cavanagh, Executive Director, Institute for Policy Studies
- Mr. John Ackerly, President, International Campaign for Tibet
Sample Schedule
Each week your schedule will be different. Following is an example of what a week in the Economic Policy Program might look like:
Monday
Attend internship at Human Rights Watch
Tuesday
Attend internship at Human Rights Watch
Wednesday 9:00 am
Personal excursion to the State Department to interview Foreign Service Officer for research project
Wednesday 11:00 am
Drop by U.S. Institute for Peace library to look for materials relating to your research project
Wednesday 4:00 pm
Ambassador Peter Galbraith addressed the class on his experience as U.S. Ambassador to Croatia in the period leading to Dayton
Thursday 9:30 am
Class attends a seminar on responses to global terrorism at the Brookings Institute
Thursday 1:30 pm
After catching a quick sandwich, the class proceeds to the offices of Search for Common Ground where Andrew Loomis speaks about multicultural programs his organization makes for children's TV in Macedonia
Thursday 4:30 pm
Class meets to discuss research projects
Friday 9:00 am
Mediation role plays
Friday 11:15 am
Class discussion of the various speakers heard during the week
* You may choose an elective class from any AU course offering that fits into your schedule or you may elect to conduct a research project.
Internships
- Action Aid International USA
- Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
- Amnesty International
- Association for Conflict Resolution
- Center of Concern
- Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute
- Citizens for Global Solutions
- Community for Creative Nonviolence
- Feed the Hungry International
- Free the Planet
- Free the Slaves
- Global Rights: Partners for Justice
- Human Rights Watch
- Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy
- International Womens’ Democracy Center
- Kidsave International
- Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
- Peace Brigades International
- Search for Common Ground
- United Nations High Commission for Refugees
- US Senate and Congressional Offices
