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• FORUM. Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili | Political Economy of the Commons

  • When
    Friday, September 27, 2024
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM

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  Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili | Political Economy of the Commons
  

   

  FORUM. is a series of monthly discussions on timely topics in conflict resolution. All FORUM. events are free for ACR-GNY members. Join now!

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  The discussion will be moderated by ACR-GNY President-elect Nick Pozek.
  

  

  Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili is the founding director of the Center for Governance and Markets and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. She serves as a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a distinguished scholar of peace and international order at the Institute for Humane Studies, and is a contributing editor at National Interest magazine. She has been recognized as one of the world's top thinkers by Prospect Magazine. At the University of Pittsburgh, she received the Donald Goldstein Professor of the Year Award and the Sheth Distinguished Faculty Award for International Achievement.

  Her first book, Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan (Cambridge University Press), received the Best Book Award in Social Sciences from the Central Eurasian Studies Society and an honorable mention from the International Development Section of the International Studies Association. Her second book, Land, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan (with Ilia Murtazashvili), was published by Cambridge University Press. She has co-authored two more books on the political economy of development.

  In the policy world, she served as a democracy and governance officer for the United States Agency for International Development in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and worked as a senior researcher for the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit in Kabul. Other policy work includes service for the World Bank, the US Department of Defense, the United Nations Development Program, UNICEF, and as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

  Currently, she is a member of the executive board of the American Institute for Afghanistan Studies, a board member at the Collins Institute for Abrahamic Heritage, and a member of PONARS Eurasia. Previously, she was a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, served as the president of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, and was an elected board member of the Section for International and Comparative Public Administration of the American Society of Public Administration.

  

  Date: Friday, September 27, 2024
  Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm (Eastern Time)
  Cost: ACR-GNY Members attend for free; Non-members attend for $20 (scholarships available)

  Location: Virtual via ZOOM

  Pre-registration is required.
  

  
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  This program is supported by ACR-GNY's 365 Sponsors:
  
  

  

  
  

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• *IN-PERSON!* ROUNDTABLE BREAKFAST: Peace, Conflict and the Everyday

  • When
    Thursday, October 10, 2024
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    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    John Jay College - 524 West 59th Street, Room 630 Haaran Hall (6th Floor), New York, NY 10019
  • Registered
    6 registrants

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  ACR-GNY & CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College present

  Peace, Conflict and the Everyday

  This in-person talk will draw from research that focuses on understanding how people affected by violence experience and define peace and conflict in their daily lives—and what makes these everyday understandings more or less relevant for broader policy processes. It will also address methodological and ethical questions about how to center affected and researched communities so that the research process can be less extractive and more productive for those involved.

  IMPORTANT NOTE:

  While our Roundtable Breakfasts have been virtual since April 2020, we are pleased that this is our first in-person Roundtable since the COVID-19 pandemic! Join us at 8:00am for breakfast and networking; the presentation and discussion will begin at 8:30am. Details will be sent via email upon registration. This event will NOT be accessible via Zoom, though it will be recorded and posted to both the ACR-GNY and CUNY DRC websites.

  Since this is an in-person event, there is limited space available. Registration this month is only for in-person attendees.

  

  DR. PETER DIXON

  
  

  Peter Dixon is an Associate Professor of Practice in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the School of Professional Studies at Columbia University. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2015. In his research, Dr. Dixon uses mixed methodologies to understand how local knowledge can influence transformative solutions toward peace and justice in conflict-affected communities.

  Currently, he is researching community-based transitional justice in Colombia and bottom-up approaches to public safety and restorative justice in urban America. He has received support for this work from foundations including the National Science Foundation, United States Institute of Peace, Inter-American Foundation, and Humanity United. His writing has been published in journals including the International Journal of Transitional Justice, the Journal of Human Rights Practice, and Law and Social Inquiry, and in a number of edited volumes.

  Dr. Dixon collaborates with diverse organizations in his work, always with the goal of making his research useful for addressing social problems and respectful of the communities who these problems ultimately affect. As a former evaluation specialist at the United Nations in New York and at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, he also continues to support international organizations on monitoring, evaluation and strategy. He serves on the Boards of the NGO Everyday Peace Indicators and the Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation at Middlebury College. He is also a Faculty Affiliate at the University of California Berkeley Possibility Lab and fellow of the Salzburg Seminar.

  About the Roundtable Breakfasts The Roundtable Breakfasts are organized by ACR-GNY and the CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College. They take place the first Thursday of the month and are ongoing since 2001. This program is supported by ACR-GNY's 365 Sponsors:

  
  

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