On October 2nd, 2023, AC4 hosted President Moetai Brotherson, Head of State for French Polynesia.
In conversation with Professor Jenik Radon, President Moetai discussed the sustainability challenges facing his region.
The full video and more information about this talk will be made available via our Youtube channel.
We are pleased to invite you to two unique and powerful panels at Columbia University, associated with the current United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues:
Indigenous Amazonian Guardianship
Wednesday, April 19th, 11am, Teachers College, Thompson Hall Room 229
Indigenous rights groups note that Indigenous peoples sustain 80% of the world’s remaining biodiversity, including ecosystems essential to global climate, fresh water, and food security. This underscores the centrality of Indigenous thinking and action on a range of guardianship issues. In the Amazon, a vast,…
Time Magazine is to publishing a series of 3 articles co-authored by Pearce Godwin and AC4 Professor, Dr. Peter Coleman over the next few weeks on the Political Courage Challenge.
Check out the first article here, the second article here, and the third and final article here.
Calling out to all Politically-Exhausted Americans! (It's 80+% of us)
Beginning on March 20, 2023, Time magazine will be partnering with the nonprofit Starts With Us and over 100 other organizations who make up the Bridging Movement Alignment Council to launch a new social movement in the U.S.
It will begin small and easy by offering you access to our Political Courage Challenge, a series of once-a-day “nudges” or micro-exercises, 5-days a week for a month, to help exercise and build up community tolerance and courage – within yourself, your political ingroup, in your cross-partisan…
Professor Joshua D. Fisher will be speaking on a panel at the Columbia Global Center in Santiago, Chile next week!
How will the unprecedented changes to climate, and the economic transitions required to stave off the worst effects of climate change, affect regional and international security dynamics? Physical scientists have been informing us for many decades now that human-induced climate change is a severe threat to the planet and our ability to live on it. Scholars have only more recently begun to grapple seriously with the implications of changing climate on issues of international…
Professor Fisher moderated a panel on Peacebuilding and Sustainability through Food and Art this past week, at which Professor Yoshida spoke alongside colleagues from the University of the Basque County, Pais Vasco.
The panel discussed how societies around the world face several challenges to social stability and environmental sustainability and the innovative approaches to positive disruption to engage community members in peacebuilding and social innovation, using examples from Colombia and Southern Thailand.
The theme of Rooted Futurities: Collective Visions of Peace and Justice will be explored via research presentations, workshops, art exhibits, and various plenaries. The IPRA Conference will take place in Trinidad and Tobago in May 2023, with AC4 as a co-sponsor.
AC4 is a partner for the 2023 Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability (NERPS) conference, which is taking place in Thailand between February 28 and March 3, 2023.
In partnership with NECR, AC4 cosponsored our Executive Director, Dr. Beth Fisher Yoshida’s, book launch on February 16, 2023
AC4 co-sponsored Women, Life, Freedom: The Iranian Feminist Uprising in Context alongside the Athena Center for Leadership at Barnard College on October 17, 2022.
*This is a virtual event. You will receive a link to join the webinar via email in advance of the event.*
Join Barnard faculty member Manijeh Moradian and attorney and advocate Azadeh Shahshahani for a conversation about the women-led protests in Iran that have captured the attention of women around the world. What are Iranian women and men fighting for, and why? How can we understand this uprising in the historical…
The AC4 Graduate Student Fellowship is now open for 2022 with research funds of up to $1000 for qualified interdisciplinary research that is able to be conducted remotely and without travel. Projects should be focused on peace, conflict, sustainability, and/or social justice and can include projects in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and the arts.
Applications due by March 24, 2022.
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences REU Sites Program (NSF Award ID 2051024)
COVID-19 Update: For summer 2022, we are planning for an in-person program for only those in the tri-state area. Given uncertainties about the ability to house students in Columbia University’s dorms for summer 2022, we will be offering a program only to participants who can commute to Columbia University. We apologize for this inconvenience. If things change in the spring and we are able to house students, we will inform everyone with an announcement on this…