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Rutgers University
Center for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Linda Stamato
Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Rutgers, The State University
33 Livingston Avenue, Suite 104
New Brunswick, NJ 08902-1985
Newark, NJ 07102
Phone: : 732-932-2487
Fax: 732-932-2493
stm@seattleu.edu

The Center's mission comprises education, training, research, and direct services in preventing and resolving disputes. As a national center, it is broadly focused on theoretical as well as practical aspects of negotiation, conflict, and conflict resolution. Other activities include lectures, seminars, conferences, and "working groups" of faculty to address conflict resolution issues.


Seattle University
Institute for Theological Studies
Patrick J. Howell, SJ, Dean
Institute for Theological Studies
School of Theology and Ministry
Seattle University
900 Broadway
Seattle, WA 98122-4340
Phone: 206-296-5330 or 800-578-3118
Email: stm@seattleu.edu

The Institute offers a Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies with strong emphasis on building communities of justice rooted in the gospels. Courses in interpersonal process, group dynamics, conflict resolution, organizational dynamics and social analysis are an integral part of the degree.


School for International Training
Master of Arts in Conflict Transformation
Tony Fuqua, Kathryn Eldred
Kipling Road, Box 676
Brattleboro, VT 05301
Tel: 808-336-1616
Fax: 802-258-3500

This innovative and widely recognized program offers an M.A. in Intercultural Management with concentration on international human services, including fieldwork abroad. Five core courses are required for most Intercultural degrees (Multicultural Team Development; Leadership and Organization; Intercultural Communications; Social Change; Research and Design Methods). Students in the Conflict Transformation program take the following: conflict and identity, conflict analysis: Theory and Practice, Skills and Topics in Conflict Transformation, Conflict Transformation: Intervention Methods, Training Design for Experiential Learning, Training Design for Multicultural Managers or Training for Social Action.


University of Southampton
Mountbatten Centre for International Studies
John Simpson
Department of Politics
Southampton S017 IBJ
UNITED KINGDOM
Phone: +44 (0)23 8059 2522
Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 3533
mcis@soton.ac.uk

The Centre conducts research on nuclear non-proliferation, human rights, naval peacekeeping, European and Asian security, civil-military relations, and police studies. In addition, the program sponsors residential seminars through its Defense Studies Unit, as well as a seminar and public lecture series.


Stanford University
Center for International Security and Arms Control
Christopher F. Chyba, Co-Director
Jessica Priselac, CISAC Outreach Manager
Encina Hall, 2nd Floor
Stanford, CA 94305-6165
Phone: 650-725-6488
Fax: 650-723-0089
priselac@stanford.edu

Students pursuing an M.A. or Ph.D., most often through the Political Science Department, can participate in the activities of the Center, which specializes in the subjects of arms control and crisis management. Some advanced students receive research fellowships from the Center.


Stanford University
Center on Conflict and Negotiation
Byron Bland, Associate Director
Crown Quadrangle
Stanford, CA 04305-8610
Phone: 650-723-2574
Fax: 650-723-9421
Email: byron.bland@stanford.edu

The Center was established to investigate barriers to negotiated resolution of conflict and, where possible, to design innovative means to overcome them. Research programs are concerned with conflict between individuals, interest groups, corporations, and nations, as well as intra-personal conflict. The Center offers graduate fellowships for six to ten students every year in addition to research grants, with foci in line with that of the Center.


Syracuse University
Program in Nonviolent Conflict and Change
Robert Rubinstein, PARC Director
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
410 Maxwell Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244
Phone: 315-443-2367
Fax: 315-443-3818
Email: rar@mailbox.syr.edu

The PNCC program offers a concentration in Nonviolent Conflict and Change as part of the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Social Science program of the University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. At the graduate and undergraduate level, PNCC examines the theory, history, and dynamics of nonviolent action movements and techniques, including inquiry into their social-psychological and political dimensions. It emphasizes alternative means of waging and managing conflict on all levels, as well as methods of conflict resolution. Students usually work closely with the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (see below).


Syracuse University
Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts
Robert Rubinstein, Director
410 Maxwell Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244
Phone: 315-443-2367
Fax: 315-443-3818
rar@mailbox.syr.edu

PARC is a well established research program aiming to develop of theories of conflict and for teach alternative conflict resolution methods. Certificates of Achievement are offered in Conflict Analysis and Resolution or Peace Studies in conjunction with graduate degrees in a variety of disciplines.


University of Toronto
Science for Peace
Carolyn Langdon
A306 University College, Toronto
15 King's College Circle
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3H7
Phone: 416-978-3606
Fax: 416-978-3606
sfp@physics.utoronto.ca

Science for Peace is a Canadian organization of natural scientists, engineers, social scientists, scholars in the humanities and lay people. It brings together professors, graduate students and first degree students who are currently working on the following topics: Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Warring Communities, Cooperation with Cuba, Land Mines Abolition, Genetics and Biotechnology, Human Rights, UN Reform, Energy, and Science and Ethics.


University of Tubingen
Center for International Relations/Peace and Conflict Studies
Volker Rittberger, Director
Institute for Political Science
Melanchthonstrabe 36
D-72074 Tubingen
GERMANY
Phone: +49 -(0)7071/294957

The University offers a Master's program with a concentration in Peace and Conflict Studies. The program specializes in conflict and peace in international relations, social and political violence, international regimes and organizations, comparqative foreign policy, arms control and European security.


University of Ulster--Magee College
Peace Studies Program
Terry M. Duffy
Derry BT48 7JL
NORTHERN IRELAND
Phone +44 0504-371-371
Fax: +44 0504-375-207
Email: jdet33@mgvax.ulster.ac.uk

The central aim of this program is to deepen students' understanding of the problems of conflict resolution and peace building, with particular reference to divided societies. The recently established ethnic studies project, INCORE, a joint project of the University of Ulster and the United Nations University, is currently based at Magee College, and embraces research and training in areas of ethnic conflict management and peacebuilding and supports visiting researchers in these areas.


The Union Institute
University Without Walls
440 E. McMillan Street
Cincinnati, OH 45206-1947
Phone: 513-861-6400

The Union Institute, is a "University Without Walls" that draws on its own faculty and staff and those of 58 other educational institutions throughout the United States to provide individualized programs at the doctoral level in many areas, including Peace Studies. The Insitute does not impose a fixed curriculum, but expects all Docotral candidates to design their own program of study. All doctoral work at the Institute rests on four cornerstones: interdisciplinary research; an awareness of the social impact of the research; a mingling of theory and practice; and formal considerations of personal growth.


Uppsala University
Department of Peace and Conflict Research
Peter Wallensteen
Box 514, S-751
20 Uppsala, SWEDEN
Phone: 46 18-18-2500
Fax: 46 18-69-5102
peter.wallensteen@pcr.uu.se

Established in 1971, the Department provides a milieu for research and teaching on international relations for undergraduates, masters and Ph.D. students, with a focus conflict research, conflict resolution, peace in societal systems and international relations. Research activities include conflict theory, causes of war, models of conflict resolution and international security issues.


University of Western Cape
Conflict Studies
African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)
Private Bag X17
Bellville 7535
SOUTH AFRICA
Phone: +27-21-959 3360/3361

The University offers a Master's degree in Conflict Studies. Students are required to write a thesis on their specialization. ACCORD is involved in many training and mediation programs and provide opportunites for students to gain practical, field experience. The program emphasizes skills in facilitation, negotiations, and mediation in conflict situations.


University of Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Stevens Point, WI 54481
Phone: 715-346-3383

The Institute is a clearing house for information for Wisconsin colleges and universities and sponsors programs relevant to issues of global concern. The Institute is not a degree-granting entity, but hosts student and faculty conferences, provides a speakers' bureau for schools, and maintains a resource center.

 

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