Events

The Pearson Institute will host Shamil Idriss, President and CEO of Search for Common Ground, the world's largest dedicated peacebuilding organization, for the first edition of our winter quarter Discussion Series. Using examples from regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the United States, Idriss will present insights and lessons learned from Search's 36-year track-record of practical peacebuilding in some of the most challenging conflict contexts in the world.  

With an introduction by Institute Director James Robinson, join us to learn more about the practical approaches that yield successful peacebuilding; important trends in international conflict to which the peacebuilding sector must adapt; and the political, bureaucratic and financial realities that will influence the effectiveness of the peacebuilding field in the years to come.

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

12:10-1:00 PM

Harris Public Policy

Room 289B

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Please join us for a discussion with Dr. Azeem Ibrahim, author of The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide. Dr. Ibrahim is a Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Policy. 

This event is co-sponsored by The Pearson Institute and Harris Policy Labs, who have partnered this quarter to offer the inaugural Policy Lab on Global Conflict. Led by Professor Austin Wright, one of the teams in this Policy Lab is using innovative data-driven techniques to better understand and influence human rights outcomes in Myanmar. 

Thursday, February 1, 2018
12:00-1:15 PM
Harris 142

Baked into the human brain are a host of processes that generate and exacerbate ideological conflict. On top of this, our efforts to rise above these tendencies are often fraught with psychological pitfalls: our best intentions to reduce conflict and erode discrimination often fail, or even backfire.

Please join The Pearson Institute for the first edition of our winter quarter Lunch and Learn series featuring neuroscientist Emile Bruneau, Research Associate, Lecturer, and Director of the Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. In the first part of his talk, Dr. Bruneau will describe his research examining the processes that drive intergroup animosity. In the second part of his talk, Dr. Bruneau will highlight evidence-based approaches that have been shown to succeed (and fail) to reduce hostility. 

Tuesday, January 30, 2018
12:00-1:00 PM
Harris Student Lounge

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