Conflict Resolution Events
Curriculum beyond the Classroom: Outside of class, the CR Program offers members of its community ample opportunities to learn from scholars and practitioners embedded in the academic and professional communities that the program represents. Our students are highly encouraged to attend these events in order to build their professional networks and to deepen their grasp of core CR skills.
External Guest Speakers
The program routinely hosts guest speakers who represent a diverse range of professions from around our field, including policymakers, community violence interrupters, scholars, State Department negotiators, former ambassadors, former heads of state, documentarians, journalists, and etc. This allows CR students to gain exposure to mid-career and senior-career professionals with peace and conflict resolution expertise. Recent speakers have included John Marks (co-founder and former president of Search for Common Ground), Kaitlan Collins (news anchor at CNN), Jules Naudet (documentary filmmaker), and Dr. Giuditta Fontana (British peace scholar).
CR Alumni Talk
Our speaker series, CR Alumni Talk, provides a virtual venue for our alums to return and talk about their expertise and trajectory as peace practitioners. This series allows students and alumni to learn in depth about the diverse range of social impact careers represented in our community of graduates.
CR Student Programming
The CR Program hosts optional workshops that provide its students with opportunities to deepen their CR skill set outside of class. In recent years, we have hosted restorative circles, stress management workshops, active bystander intervention and de-escalation training, and more. The program also has a tradition of hosting lunch breaks for CR students during finals week.
In addition to programming organized by the program’s leadership team, CR students also have access to activities organized by the CR Student Advisory Board, which in recent years have included scavenger hunts, trivia nights, potluck dinners, and etc.
CR Summer Field Fellowship Debrief
After students return from their summer placements, they gather on campus for a cohort debrief on their summer placement experiences. This all day event leverages the CR Program’s social curriculum and reflective pedagogy to help students deepen what they learned during the experiential learning sequence.
CR Summer Retreat
At the end of the summer skills workshop courses, the program hosts an all day retreat to prepare returning students for entering the job market ahead of their final semester. This retreat entails a combination of professional development and reflective exercises.
Face to Face with Leaders in the Field
“…I don’t know where else I could get the opportunity to sit a meter away from people who have done and seen amazing things in the field that I want to pursue and grow in.”
—Ellie Cotter (G’23), a former student of Georgetown’s Conflict Resolution master’s program