by Stephen Wilson, Australia The year was 1992. Senior Political Advisor, Álvaro de Soto was accompanying recently-appointed United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on a long-haul flight. With the recently achieved El Salvadorean Chapultepec Peace Accords [...]
by Shirin Khosropour, USA/Iran The rain came down fast and we welcomed this change in the weather. On this Monday of our third week, some braved the rain to walk the 20-minutes to the John’s [...]
by Mara Goldberg, United States I first interacted with Dr. Joyce Neu in March. I had recently completed my undergraduate degree and was searching for organizations that could provide me with career advice in conflict [...]
by Trust Mamombe, Zimbabwe Enter Wilbur Perlot, the Deputy Director of the Clingendael Academy and a ‘Specialist in Difficult Negotiations’ (SDN, my creative acronym). Here is a man with a non-negotiably long CV. That being [...]
by Melissa Gregg, United Kingdom As we come to the end of this week, it’s hard to believe that the 2014 Bologna Symposium is at its halfway point. As a graduate of the 2013 Hague [...]
by Zachary Laranang, United States 2014 IPSI Bologna participants Zach Laranang and Marta D'Agosto on panel during negotiations The second week in Bologna was even better than the first! It was all about [...]
by Robert Heyn, Germany Last Wednesday was a very special day for me. I was very much looking forward to Wilbur Perlot's class on international negotiation. Whenever negotiation was on the schedule during my undergraduate [...]
by Stephen Di Lorenzo, Australia Over the last few years my adventures in the world of peacebuilding and conflict management have been rather limited, yet my enthusiasm for the field has grown. My foray into [...]
By Rishita Apsani, India/Canada Conflict is an inevitable and healthy part of the human condition and our role as peace builders is not to stomp out conflict as such, but to move it away [...]
by Tom Hasani, United States As a human being in search of a higher power, it has been a difficult life trying to understand the perpetuation of violent conflict in the name of different Gods. [...]