Meredith Smith, AC4’s Research Coordinator, interviews Dr. Jill Strauss about arts and conflict resolution and about her upcoming workshop “Storytelling in Contexts of Conflict” which will be at the 2015 Sustaining Peace Conference on March 26th.

Release date: March 2015

AC4's Josh Fisher interviews Columbia's Glenn Denning, director of both the MPA in Development Practice Program and the Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute, on the topics of agriculture and conflict. Photo of the Millennium Village Project in Malawi, from Earth Institute Blog: http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/12/03/glenn-dennings-road-to-bali-and-the-earth-institute/

Beth Fisher-Yoshida interviews Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Release date: February 2015

Peter Coleman interviews Larry Liebovitch, AC4 Adjunct Senior Research Scientist Professor of Physics and Psychology at Queens College of the City University of New York.

Release date: December 2014

Peter Coleman interviews José Pascal da Rocha, a professor of conflict resolution at Columbia discussing his experiences in the field and explaining how paper-based role-playing games have helped him solve huge and seemingly intractable real-world problems.

Release date: November 2014

Beth Fisher-Yoshida interviews Alex Fischer, Associate Director of the Haiti Research and Policy Program at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and Senior Research Associate with CIESIN at Earth Institute.

Release date: August 2014

Peter Coleman interviews John Barkat, Assistant Secretary-General and head of the Ombuds (or conflict mediation) program at the United nations.

Release date: July 2014

In this conversation with Peter T. Coleman, Dr. Blattman explains how employment opportunities and plain old cash incentives can help high-risk men in Liberia avoid seeking out work as mercenary soldiers.

To learn more about Dr. Blattman's work, check out his profile in AC4-Link: http://ac4link.ei.columbia.edu/profiles/detail/178

Release Date: May 2014.

Researcher and conflict educator Naira Musallam discusses conflict dynamics in Israel, Palestine, Iraq, and Syria, and explains how chaos theory can help mediators better understand conflict zones.'

Release date: June 2014

Peter Coleman discusses the 2013 Kenyan elections with Jacqueline Klopp.

Release date: April 2014