Saturday, July 3 – Venice day trip

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Many students took advantage of our second weekend in Italy, and trips spread out across the peninsula from Florence to Milan.  Another group bound for Venice truly defined the global reach of the IPSI program: [...]

Saturday, July 3 – Venice day trip2019-01-02T18:19:50+00:00

Friday, July 2 – Conflict Resolution

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Friday was sort of a low day as none of the scheduled speakers was able to make it due to reasons beyond their control. The speakers scheduled for the day were Jeffrey Mapendere and Betty [...]

Friday, July 2 – Conflict Resolution2019-01-02T18:19:50+00:00

Thursday, July 1 – Conflict Resolution

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Day 11, and everyone was pretty keen for today’s speaker. To kick off proceedings Gareth Evans spoke to us on: nuclear proliferation, R2P and peace v justice. GREAT! Its exactly what we needed, after a [...]

Thursday, July 1 – Conflict Resolution2019-01-02T18:19:50+00:00

Wednesday, June 30 – Wow, it really works!

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Life can’t be just work, and brain needs some time out too. Here in Bologna, it feels a bit like “we work hard, so we party hard,” and on Wednesday afternoon, a bunch of us [...]

Wednesday, June 30 – Wow, it really works!2019-01-02T18:19:50+00:00

Wednesday, June 30 – Conflict Resolution

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Today, our schedule started with the last set of negotiation training sessions with our hono(u)rary guests, Mark Young (from the Harvard Program on Negotiation Trainer) and Bjorn Hofmann (from the UN Office for the Coordination [...]

Wednesday, June 30 – Conflict Resolution2019-01-02T18:19:50+00:00

Wednesday, June 30 – Conflict Resolution

2019-01-02T18:19:51+00:00

We wrapped up the negotiation training with Mark Yong and Björn Hoffman today. They've provided us with some good tools and things to keep in mind in negotiations. When some of us were wandering around [...]

Wednesday, June 30 – Conflict Resolution2019-01-02T18:19:51+00:00

Tuesday, June 29 – Conflict Resolution

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In any given society, there are several key factors that bring about conflict. Some of these factors include, Poor Leadership and Misuse of Power, Weak Justice Systems, Identity based divisions and lack of shares national [...]

Tuesday, June 29 – Conflict Resolution2019-01-02T18:19:51+00:00

Tuesday, June 29 – Conflict Resolution

2019-01-02T18:19:51+00:00

Today was the second day in our three day training on Negotiating Successfully in an International Context. In the morning we built upon the underlying principles and concepts of negotiation learned the previous day, and [...]

Tuesday, June 29 – Conflict Resolution2019-01-02T18:19:51+00:00

Tuesday, June 29 – Conflict Resolution

2019-01-02T18:19:51+00:00

The last two days have been filled with exercises and discussions aimed at developing and refining our skills in negotiation, both within our ‘home’ teams (negotiation teams) as we strategized for the negotiation simulations and [...]

Tuesday, June 29 – Conflict Resolution2019-01-02T18:19:51+00:00

Monday, June 28 – Conflict Resolution

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Some refer to it as the act of getting to mutually beneficial agreements, of promoting peaceful settlements or of even preventing the escalation of conflict, damage and lose-lose results. On Monday, June 27, we the [...]

Monday, June 28 – Conflict Resolution2019-01-02T18:19:51+00:00
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