by Sonia Bianchi What an excellent first day of the Bologna Symposium! We have begun our first week focusing on Conflict Prevention, with lectures from Dr. I. William Zartman and Dr. Francis Deng. Two excellent [...]
by Lina Imran John Hopkins professor William Zartman and the Under-Secretary General, Special Adviser for the prevention of Genocide Dr. Francis M. Deng conducted a lecture on issues of Diagnosing Conflict/Primary Drivers: A Theoretical [...]
by Mia Anderson Hinn Today… listening to Dr. William Zartman and Dr (& Ambassador) Francis Deng and the questions of my colleagues, I could only think about the importance of stories, of myths (personal, [...]
Hello from the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Center in Bologna, Italy! The 2011 Bologna Symposium will offer an unprecedented line-up of the world's top academics, practitioners, and advocates, and we want to make sure those not present at the program [...]
Today we started a two and a half day long simulation of the Georgia/Abkhazia conflict which is sure to prove challenging, yet rewarding at the same time. I have been appointed as the Abkhazian representative [...]
One of the overarching discussions that has permeated almost every session in this course so far is the question of how a balance between peace and justice can or should be struck in a peace [...]
Hearing Valerie Rosoux's lecture regarding memory and international relations was rather thought provoking for me, in how something so intangible (as thoughts, memories, and emotions) can have a significant impact on the relations between (as [...]
I’ll briefly address participant feedback from my recent presentation and this afternoon’s discussion on the International Criminal Court (ICC). Yesterday afternoon I shared my experiences and views from my 2008-2009 deployment to Iraq as an [...]
The morning lecture of July 7th started with an AFI award-winning film by a young Bosnian refugee, Harun Mehmedinovic, entitled “In the name of the son”. The movie tells the story of Tarik, a Bosnian [...]
When I received an email about IPSI a few months ago, I looked at the list of speakers and was super excited by the chance to meet some of these people – and I definitely [...]