Dr. Sabrina Karim, the Hardis Family Assistant Professor in Government, will present preliminary research from the Gender and Security Sector Lab that she runs at Cornell University. The presentation will focus on how gender equality within the security forces affects personnel’s beliefs and norms about the use of violence as well as how different forms of socialization, such as through participation in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, affects the same outcomes. The research draws on surveys conducted with the security forces in Ghana, Zambia, Senegal, and Uruguay.

This seminar is part of a series organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and the Gender and Security Sector (GSS) Lab. Download the Fall 2021 Seminar Series schedule here.

A three-day, international conference bringing together communities, scholars and policymakers.

We will present our research findings from Indigenous and rural societies in the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, as well as the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and Oneida Lake Watershed in the United States of America. These Indigenous and rural communities have contributed least to the anthropogenic climate crisis but are facing its harshest consequences. While these peoples are largely ignored, we are creating an enabling environment for their voices to be heard at our three-day conference. Rhythms of the Land Conference will present findings from the Ecological Calendars for Climate Adaptation Project (ECCAP) undertaken by a team of students and scholars from the USA, Germany, Italy, and China.

Oct. 11
To include presentations of our research findings on building local level anticipatory capacity for climate change through implementable ecological calendars. Our research will also be communicated through works of art presented by prominent Indigenous artists from around the world. The diverse calendars for each community will be presented within an artistic aesthetic. Preview the community reports.

Oct. 12
Will be devoted to policy formulation, communication of climate adaptation strategies, and next steps in applied research.

Oct. 13
Will identify specific initiatives for action. Collective insights from presenters offer a sustainable roadmap for climate change adaptation – and hope - for all, regardless of political ideology.

COVID-19 event public safety requirements:

RSVP for public events required by Oct. 10 (Registration is full)Wear masks at all times during the event.Every participant is expected to be fully vaccinated.
Oct. 11 public programming to include:

Nevin Welcome Center, Cornell Botanic Gardens

9 a.m. - 10 a.m.
Environmental Justice and Indigenous Communities
James Ross, Teetl’it Gwich’in, Past Chief of Fort McPherson and
Negotiator of the Gwich’in Land Claim Agreement

10 a.m - 10:40 a.m.
Methodology of Hope – The Role of Ecological Calendars in Responding to the Challenge of Climate Change
Dr. Karim-Aly Kassam, International Professor of Environmental & Indigenous Studies, Dept. of Natural Resources & the Environment

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

3:15 p.m. - 3:55 p.m.
Measurements meet human observations:integrating distinctive ways of knowing in the Pamir Mountains to assess local climate change
Professor Cyrus Samimi, University of Bayreuth, Germany

4:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.
Artists and Communities Panel Conversation: Environmental Justice
Frederick McDonald, Past-Chief Executive Officer Fort McKay First Nation
Natani Notah, Navajo interdisciplinary artist and educator
Tony David, Director, Environmental Division, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe

Oct. 12 public programming to include:

Nevin Welcome Center, Cornell Botanic Gardens

8:30 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.
What Are the Challenges for Climate Change Adaptation for Indigenous and Rural Communities?
James Ross, Teetl’it Gwich’in, Past Chief of Fort McPherson and Negotiator of the Gwich’in Land Claim Agreement

Schwartz Performing Arts Center

5:55 p.m. - 6:35 p.m.
Where Do We Go from Here? Concrete Outcomes for Climate Adaptations
James Ransom, Past Chief Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, Past Director, Environment Program, SRMT

6:45 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Dance Performance: Blood, Water, Earth
Chancellor Santee Smith

Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' people, past and present, to these lands and waters.

How do peace processes really work and how can progress be measured? Madhav Joshi explains this emerging research agenda at an upcoming seminar with the Reppy Institute.

Madhav Joshi is research professor and associate director of the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He oversees the data coding on the implementation of peace agreements worldwide for the PAM project and leads the research initiatives on peace agreement design, implementation, and post-implementation political and economic developments. His research and teaching focus on civil wars, mediation, post-civil war democratization and democratic survival, peace duration and peacebuilding, quality peace, and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal.

This seminar is part of a series organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and the Gender and Security Sector (GSS) Lab. Download the Fall 2021 Seminar Series schedule here.

Participants will be given a link to the article at registration or they may access it here. To enrich the conversation, please read in advance of the seminar.

Rachel Wahl discusses the relationship between dialogue and activism in police reform, based on research published in Polity, vol 49, no 4 (2017): 489–517. Wahl is an Associate Professor at the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia.

This seminar is part of a series organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and the Gender and Security Sector (GSS) Lab. Download the Fall 2021 Seminar Series schedule here.

Participants will be given a link to the article at registration or they may access it here. To enrich the conversation, please read in advance of the seminar.