Announcements


Call for Applications: PhD Fellowships at Department of Food and Resource Economics

Jun 6, 2014 | University of Copenhagen

Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO) is offering a number of PhD scholarships from the 1 November 2014 or as soon as possible thereafter.

IFRO…


Courses: Updated Conflict Minerals Training Course Now Available from WeComply

Jun 5, 2014 | WeComply, Inc.

WeComply, Inc., a Thomson Reuters business and leader in web-based ethics and compliance training, has announced an updated version of its Conflict Minerals training course. The…


Call for Applications: Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship

Jun 5, 2014 | The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship Program

Scoville Fellows interested in "Environmental and Energy Security, including the Nexus of Climate Change and Energy Use, Conflict, and Resource Scarcity" will support and participate…


Call for Papers: Conference on Stewardship of Planet Earth

May 31, 2014 | UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (UCL ISR)

On 6 & 7 November 2014, the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (UCL ISR) & UCL Grand Challenge of Intercultural Interaction (GCII) will be hosting…


Call for Applications: Online Course on Community Participation and Dispute Resolution

May 27, 2014 | Duke University Continuing Studies and Village Earth

The course on Community Participation and Dispute Resolution will take place June 13 to July 18 and will explore the social and cultural significance of a…


Call for Applications: Master of Sustainable Peacebuilding

May 24, 2014 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Beginning in Fall 2014, UWM will offer an interdisciplinary professional graduate degree program leading to a Master of Sustainable Peacebuilding (MSP). The program prepares students…


Call for Papers: Revista Descontamina - Biannual Publication on Peacebuilding and Nonviolent Action

May 24, 2014 | Descontamina

Descontamina invite you to contribute to the next issue of their new puplication, Revista Descontamina. Papers should not be longer than two pages and should…


Call for Applications: Summer School in Poverty Eradication: Access to Land, Access to Food

May 23, 2014 | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

The Summer School in Poverty Eradication: Access to Land, Access to Food, taking place 1-4 September, 2014, is organized by theGraduate School of Economics and International Relations…


Call for Papers: Business, Peace and Sustainable Development Journal

May 21, 2014 | Greenleaf Publishing

Business, Peace and Sustainable Development (BPSD) is a peer-reviewed, online journal that explores the role of the business sector in enhancing peace, reducing violence and…


Environmental Peacebuilding Community of Practice Celebrates 6 Months of Growth

May 13, 2014 | ELI & UNEP

On May 6, 2014, the Environmental Peacebuilding Global Knowledge Platform and Community of Practice celebrated six months of dialogue and growth.  Since its launch, the…


Call for Papers: 1st Austrian Conference on International Resource Politics

May 10, 2014 | OeFSE (Austrian Foundation for International Development Research)

The purpose of the conference is to analyze prevailing natural resource politics, policies and arrangements, as well as problems and conflicts associated with specific forms of resource…


Call for Applications: UNESCO-IHE MSc Program on Water Conflict Management

May 9, 2014 | UNESCO-IHE

The 18-month programme based in Delft, The Netherlands, is designed for water managers as well as for institutional, legal and international relations experts interested in local,…


Call for Applications: OSU Graduate Certificate in Water Conflict Management (Online program)

May 9, 2014 | Oregon State University

The 18-credit online graduate certificate provides in-depth training to enhance your career in water governance and help you implement strategies that impact our ecosystems, society and economics. Program graduates…


Call for Applications: West African Peacebuilding Institute

Apr 24, 2014 | West Africa Network for Peacebuilding

WAPI was established to provide specialized, intensive, and culturally sensitive training in conflict transformation and peacebuilding to individuals, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), the Business Community,…


Development-Related Postgraduate Courses

Apr 21, 2014 | German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Postgraduate courses for professionals from developing countries at German institutions of Higher educationDuration: 12-24 months, depending on the particular institutionInternationally recognised Master's degreeIncludes German Universities…


Call for Applications: Funding for Master's Degrees in Conflict, Transition, and Peace Studies

Apr 21, 2014 | Institute for Conflict, Transition, and Peace Research

The Institute for Conflict, Transition, and Peace Research (www.abdn.ac.uk/ictpr) is a new research and teaching institute consolidating the University of Aberdeen's rich expertise in the…


Call for Applications: 40 Chances Fellows Program

Apr 21, 2014 | 40 Chances Fellows Program

The 40 Chances Fellows program will fund four 40 Chances Fellows with the most innovative social enterprise plans that use strategies built on the principles…


Call For Papers: Nordic Africa Days 2014 Conference

Apr 9, 2014 | Nordic Africa Institute

The Nordic Africa Days 2014 has a thematic focus on different assumptions of governance. It cuts across research topics covering most African developments and processes,…


Call for Papers and Panel Proposals for The 5th International Conference on Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies

Apr 9, 2014 | Islamic State University Ar-Raniry

Taking a step further from the dynamics beyond reconstruction examined through “Social Recovery” in the 4th conference, this conference will assess the effectiveness and sustainability…


Call for Papers: Post-war Development in Asia and Africa Symposium

Apr 7, 2014 | Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium and Centre for Poverty Analysis

The symposium approaches the question of post- war/conflict development policy as encompassing distinctive goals and processes but addressing two overarching, inter-related, and equally important imperatives.…


Summer Course: Socially Sustainable Degrowth

Apr 3, 2014 | Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidade de Coimbra

The Summer School on Degrowth will offer a range of perspectives located at the core of the concept, looking at its sources, dimensions and policy…


Call for Papers: Towards International Resource Fairness - Theories, Conflicts and Policies

Apr 3, 2014 | Vienna University

Natural resources, be they agrarian or mineral, have become a key issue in international politics in recent years. This is due to a number of…


PATRIR and CPAU Joint Project Achieving the MDGs through Peacebuilding in Afghanistan

Apr 3, 2014 | The Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR), and Peace and Unity Afghanistan (CPAU)

The objective of the project is to strengthen state, civil society and UN capacity for peacebuilding, peace consolidation and violence prevention in Afghanistan in the…


Courses: Water Conflict and Negotiations

Apr 3, 2014 | Oregon State University

How can we move debates about water resource issues beyond entrenched positions? What are some less confrontational approaches that bring conflicting interests and institutions together…


Call for Papers: The Extractive Industries and Post-conflict Reconstruction in Developing Countries

Mar 31, 2014 | The Extractive Industries and Society (Elsevier Journals)

Since the 1990s, scholarship and policy have drawn considerable attention to the economic dimensions of contemporary armed conflicts.  Recent interest in the ‘resource curse’ has…


MSc Water Security and International Development Program

Mar 31, 2014 | University of East Anglia

The MSc Water Security and International Development degree interprets 'water security' in its broad political ecology and political economy sense. We believe that the hydrological cycle is intimately connected…


Summer Course: The Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution

Mar 31, 2014 | George Mason University

This program is designed to provide graduate students with intensive training and practice in field research methods, as well as insight into the complex local dynamics of…


Water Management in Post-Conflict Countries Critical to Peace Building and Economic Recovery – New Study

Mar 21, 2014 | ELI & UNEP

WASHINGTON, DC - 21 March 2014 ‒ In times of war, water resources and infrastructure are often destroyed or become inaccessible to large segments of…


MPI Peacebuilding Training: Week 3: Resource-Based Conflict: Indigenous People's Perspectives and Approaches

Mar 20, 2014 | Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute

This field-based course is designed for community development workers, human rights advocates, environmentalists and other civil society actors who are working with Indigenous People that…


Caux Dialogue 2013 and 2014

Mar 10, 2014 | Land Lives Peace

Six to ten inches of topsoil is all that lies between humanity and extinction. Yet every year more than 30 billion tons of it is…