In this CUSLAR and LASP Public Issues Forum, speakers from Asociacion Sembrando Semillas de Paz, or Sembrandopaz, will speak to the challenges of grassroots peace-building with a human rights framework in post-civil war Colombia. A large part of their work includes a focus on sustainability and agroecological farming practices.

This event will be in Spanish with interpretation into English.

Lillian Hall '84 is an agronomist by profession and currently serves as the international relations coordinator and manager for Sembrandopaz at the Villa Barbara farm in Sincelejo, Colombia. She is an alumna of Cornell University and lived for nearly 30 years in Nicaragua, where she developed her expertise in international public relations as director of a small NGO in Nicaragua and served as a leader of delegations for understanding and solidarity

Andres Ruiz is a community leader in Sucre, Colombia. He has worked with Sembrandopaz for more than 20 years. He has served as the leader of the victims division for more than 9 years, and has worked on the forefront of the group’s various reconciliation projects. He has also worked on the part of the Municipal government of Coloso, Colom-bia in the Familias en Accion (Families in action) as well as the Colombia Mejor (A Better Colombia) initiatives.

Register at: tinyurl.com/SowingSeedsNov2020

The Committee on U.S. Latin American Relations (CUSLAR), in partnership with the Cornell Latin American Studies Program and the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, is sponsoring this event highlighting the role of community initiatives in constructing peace in Colombia. The event is sponsored in part by the Student Activities Finance Commission and funded in part by the LASP Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) grant from the US Department of Education.

The Cornell Arab Student Association in coordination with the Near Eastern Studies, Government, and History departments, as well as the Einaudi Center for International Studies and Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, invites Professor Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University to talk about his latest book, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance.

Professor Khalidi is a leader in his field and serves as the director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. For any questions please contact us at asacornell@gmail.com.

Feel free to check out the Facebook event with this link https://fb.me/e/3LLzsC1nN and mark yourself as going!

Protests against racism and police violence crescendoed in the United States and around the world in 2020. In the United States and internationally, how can we balance social justice, accountability, and personal freedom with demands for order and security?

This Lund Critical Debate brings together the United Nations’ police commissioner and a noted expert on political conflict resolution to discuss strategies—both inside and outside the policing framework—for public safety and law enforcement. The conversation will address current questions around security and policing, including political violence, racial injustice and Black Lives Matter, and global responses to unlawful use of force.

The panel welcomes questions in advance and during the event. Registration is required.

Panelists
Luís Carrilho, United Nations Police Adviser. He has served since November 2017 as police commissioner and director of the UN’s Police Division. He previously served as the police commissioner in multidimensional United Nations peacekeeping operations in Timor Leste, Haiti, and the Central African Republic.

Christian Davenport, Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Michigan. His research focuses on racism, social movements, and political conflict, including human rights violations, genocide, torture, political surveillance, and civil war. His most recent book is The Peace Continuum: What It Is and How To Study It (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Moderator
Sabrina Karim, Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies; Hardis Family Assistant Professor for Teaching Excellence, Department of Government, A&S. Her research focuses on conflict and peace processes, international involvement in post-conflict security, and state building in the aftermath of civil war.

About the Debate
This year’s Lund Critical Debate is hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, part of the Einaudi Center. Established in 2008, the Einaudi Center's Lund Critical Debate Series is made possible by the generosity of Judith Lund Biggs ’57.

Celebrate International Education Week #IEW2020 with Global Cornell!

Join DJ Daniel Bass of WRFI's Monsoon Radio for world music of 2020—from coronavirus and mass incarceration, to migration, love, dancing, and beyond. Jonathan Miller of Homelands Productions cohosts.

For semi-finals: It's a semi-study break. See you there.

Registration is required.

Daniel Bass (South Asia Program) has been a radio DJ for nearly 30 years. As an undergraduate at Carleton College, he was music director of KRLX, the student-run radio station, and hosted a weekly show. In graduate school at the University of Michigan, he cohosted a weekly show of South Asian music on WCBN, the college/community radio station in Ann Arbor. In 2013, he started Monsoon Radio on WPKN in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He brought the show to Ithaca's WRFI in 2017. Monsoon Radio features music of South Asia, its influences and diasporas, branching out to music of the Indian Ocean and the Muslim world and fusions from all over the globe. Until the pandemic forced the show into hiatus, Monsoon Radio aired every other Tuesday night on WRFI, 88.1 FM, and wrfi.org.

Jonathan Miller's work as a journalist, writer, and editor has taken him to more than 20 countries in Asia, the Americas, Africa, Europe, and the Pacific. His radio and television reports have been broadcast on NPR, Marketplace, BBC, PBS NewsHour, and other outlets. As executive director of the journalism collective Homelands Productions, he has designed and produced multi-platform projects on cultural change, globalization and work, and the future of food. He serves as board chair of Ithaca City of Asylum. From 2016 to 2018 he was associate director of communication at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

Register here: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hjkj48IdQ7yEVetaG1QFlA

Rebecca Hester, Assistant Professor, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia Tech will join the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies for a discussion of “The somatic-security industrial complex: theorizing the political economy of informationalized biology,” Review of International Political Economy, Vol 20, issue 1, 2020, 98-124.

This piece is co-authored with Owain D. Williams, Lecturer in International Relations, School of Politics & International Studies, University of Leeds.

Please note that the author will not give a formal presentation of their work, so it is best to read in advance. A link to the reading will be sent to you upon registration.

Please pre-register at https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvceGvrzwrHNSicEtRjCZE3DAdUR….

Organizers:

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Science & Technology Studies and is part of the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) Reading Group Series.

About the speaker:

Rebecca Hester is an assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society and an associate director of the Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies at Virginia Tech. She received her PhD in Politics from the University of California Santa Cruz. She was subsequently a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a faculty member in the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Dr. Hester's research and teaching interests focus on the intersections of migration, health, the body, and security. Her current research examines contemporary accounts of “biological danger” and the social, political, and scientific implications of preempting, preventing, and eradicating such danger.

Sarah Kreps, John L. Wetherill Professor of Government, Cornell University, will join the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies for a discussion of her new book Social Media and International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Please note that the author will not give a formal presentation of her work, so it is best to read in advance. A link to the reading will be sent to you with the registration confirmation.

Please pre-register at https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpde-hrTMoHdZTwJtmIrjAAyRNJL….

This is part of Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Reading Group Series.