Nov 28, 2023
In this episode, Joseph Kaifala recounts his experiences growing up in civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, and lays out a vision for peacebuilding that requires first dealing with the legacies of mass atrocities.
Kaifala is the inaugural recipient of the Projects for Peace Alumni Award. The newly created award,...
Nov 3, 2023
In this episode, dance professor Lida Winfield is interviewed by Middlebury College senior and CT intern Joe Hanlon. They discuss the importance of transformation and growth and the role of the arts in facilitating communication, relationship-building, and social change.
Lida Winfield plays several important roles...
Oct 23, 2023
Strategic empathy is the sincere effort to identify and assess patterns of behavior and the underlying drivers and constraints that shape those patterns. In a CT Collaborative-funded research project, a team from the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at MIIS explored the utility of this concept for...
Oct 2, 2023
In this episode, we talk with Beyond the Page (BtP), a Middlebury program of professional teaching artists who use theater techniques in college classrooms to foster creativity and storytelling. Conflict Transformation Collaborative and BtP have been exploring ways to shift conflict dynamics through community building,...
Sep 25, 2023
Dylan Moglen and Alex Christodolou are two recent MIIS graduates. In 2022, they participated in a research project that fundamentally reexamined the definition of conflict, resolution, and transformation, focusing on communities that occupy a unique yet powerful space in the global imaginary: Indigenous...