Environmental Peacebuilding 1-Week Executive Training at Columbia University: Environment, Peace and Security

Sep 26, 2016 - Sep 30, 2016 | Earth Institute, University of Columbia
Columbia University in the City of New York
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Evidence is accumulating that linkages between environment and security dynamics are more important than previously thought. Governments, the public, corporations, and other organizations around the world need a clearer understanding of the related new risks and more effective responses.  Columbia University’s Environmental Peacebuilding 1-week executive training program will prepare you to understand these rapidly changing connections between environment and security dynamics, and will equip you with tools for managing the risks. Columbia connects the fields of development practice, climatology, environmental science, and conflict resolution through interdisciplinary research, teaching, and practice, drawing faculty from The Earth Institute, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network, the Master of Science in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution program and industry experts.   Select faculty include:  Marc A. Levy, Deputy Director, Center for International Earth Sciences Information Network  Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Director and Faculty in the Master of Science in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program, Executive Co-Chair of the Advanced Consortium for Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity Josh Fisher, Faculty in the Master of Science in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program, Director of the Advanced Consortium for Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity.  WHO SHOULD APPLY This program is designed for mid-level managers with responsibility for providing assessments and warnings regarding environment- security risks or for designing programs to manage such risks, including people who work at diplomatic missions, global finance organizations, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, consulting companies, and emerging market investment firms.  TOPICS COVERED 

The topics listed belwo will be covered during the 1-week intensive training by faculty and guest lecturers. Students will be part of a dynamic learning environment diverse with theory, relevant and recent case studies, renowned guest lecturers, simulations, hands-on exercises and technical training.  

• Making Sense of Environment-Peace-Security Linkages: A Survey of Competing Approaches
• Conflict Resolution for the Environment and Peacebuilding: Theory and Frameworks
• Environment and Conflict Assessment Methodologies
• Data Collection and Visualization Tools for Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding
• Systems Approaches to Environment and Security: Risk Assessment and Program Desig
• Communication and Facilitation for Environment, Peace, and Security

Upon successful completion of the program you will be ready to evolve into a more senior role with your environmental security specialization, relevant in a range of sectors and professional settings. You will have acquired an understanding of how environment, peacebuilding, and security are interlinked, the major trends shaping these linkages, and how these trends are affecting the worlds of business, development, and peacebuilding. You will have learned how to use tools for assessing and managing these connections. 

The program prepares you to assess environmental drivers of conflict, apply conflict management tools in sensitive environmental contexts, communicate in settings with high environment-conflict sensitivity, understand and apply data collection and visualization tools, develop project-planning approaches to mitigate risks, and learn about how to stay abreast of new developments in this field.

Date: September 26 – 30, 2016  
Location: Columbia University in the City of New York  
Fee: The program fee is $2500 (accommodations not included)
Contact:  If you have any questions about the program please contact us.