Webinars – Ohio Peace and Conflict Studies Network

EventsWebinar Date: 2019-11-19

Conflict Resolution Models for Student Conduct, Cultivating Belonging

Student conduct work has historically approached individual and organizational conflict through administrative intervention, a transactional approach with limited opportunities for dialogue, healing, and community input. As alternatives emerge to address…

EventsWebinar Date: 2019-12-10

Study Abroad as Peace Pedagogy

Peace pedagogy is a normative approach to teaching and learning that aims to reduce violence in all its forms. To best understand peace pedagogy, one must understand the full spectrum…

EventsWebinar Date: 2020-01-23

Making Peace and Conflict Studies Whole: Adding Civil Resistance to the Mix

There are times when diplomacy, dialogue, mediation, and conflict prevention efforts are not sufficient by themselves to win rights, freedom, and justice. Recent research also documents that nonviolent civil resistance…

EventsWebinar Date: 2020-01-24

Developing a Peace & Conflict Studies (PACS) Program using Multidisciplinary courses & team-teaching

In 2008, BGSU created a required multidisciplinary, team-taught course called Peace and Cultural Legacies of the Nuclear Age as a way to build interest in the Peace and Conflict Studies…

EventsWebinar Date: 2020-02-20

The Place of Dialogue in Peace and Conflict Studies

Colleges, schools, and communities increasingly rely on dialogue as a method to bring together people from diverse backgrounds and discern differences in perspectives. The University of Dayton has recently opened…

EventsWebinar Date: 2020-02-27

A Need for Critical Peace Education: Information Warfare, the Current Struggle Between Democracy & Autocracy

In recent years there has been a global attack on democratic nations from autocratic, authoritarian forces. With a few exceptions (e.g., Russian aggression against Ukraine), this attack is not on…

EventsWebinar Date: 2020-03-12

The Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center: Teaching Peace Through Literature and the Arts

Louise will share about her work at The Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center with students, kindergarten through undergraduates and adults, as well as incarcerated youth and people recovering from…

EventsWebinar Date: 2020-03-17

Community Mediation Centers: Expanding Opportunities for Colleges and Communities

Institutions of Higher Education have an opportunity to serve as an incubator for establishing centers for community mediation and to nourish communities that have an established community mediation center (CMCs). CMCs…

EventsWebinar Date: 2020-04-03

Free e-learning resources and tips for teaching SKILLS of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and conflict resolution education (CRE) in Higher Education

Join Ohio Peace and Conflict Studies Network members (Ohio State University, Denison University and more) as we share our favorite free on-line resources and tips for teaching conflict resolution and alternative…

EventsWebinar Date: 2020-04-15

A New Social Justice Hero: The Marketer

Unfortunately as of April 9th, this webinar had to be cancelled due to illness. Gone are the days when it was the responsibility of politicians, educators, and authors to lead…

EventsWebinar Date: 2020-04-23

First Use of Nuclear Weapons: Key Issues for Educators in Understanding the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

This seminar highlights recent scholarship in regard to the first use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 6 & 9, 1945 and the key issues that U.S. political…

EventsWebinar Date: 2020-05-06

Conflict Transformation & Storytelling

The University of Akron has used storytelling in multiple ways. This webinar will briefly highlight the ways the University of Akron has used storytelling and conclude by sharing how to…

EventsWebinar Date: 2021-02-10

Why Our Peace/Conflict Studies Programs Matter: Taking a Look at the Lasting Impact on Students

Within the past three years Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) has conducted two simple studies looking at the student experience and lasting impact of our courses and program in Conflict Resolution…