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Category Archives: MIIS

Violence Explained and Peace Explored

The Center for Conflict Studies invites you to attend its upcoming presentation, “Violence Explained and Peace Explored.” In 2015, CCS organized two field courses: “Challenges to Peacebuilding in Mindanao” and “The Praxis of Conflict Transformation: Poverty, Homelessness and Violence in Los Angeles.” Dr. Pushpa Iyer will lead 15 MIIS and 3 CSUMB course participants in […]

I Am Troy Davis Book Club

On Tuesday, November 18 the Center for Conflict Studies and the William Tell Coleman Library at MIIS will host a discussion on race, the death penalty, and the U.S. criminal justice system through a reading and discussion of “I Am Troy Davis” by Jen Marlowe. Troy Davis was executed by the state of Georgia in […]

Roundtable Discussion – Police Legitimacy in Communities of Color

                               On October 9, CCS will host a roundtable discussion on Police Legitimacy in Communities of Color. Panelists will include Kelly McMillin, the Salinas Chief of Police; Will Matthews, Senior Communications Officer at ACLU Northern California; and community member Rosemary Soto. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Pushpa Iyer of MIIS. Please join […]

2014 Conference: Conflicts Over Water and Building Bridges with Water

We are excited to announce our third annual conference to be held in Monterey, CA from Nov. 6-8, 2014! Conflicts Over Water Water, a basic human need, a human right, is a limited resource. The eternal conflict over access to and control of water has been made more complex in recent times with climate change, […]

Peace, Trade, and Development Program 2014

CCS Director Pushpa Iyer will once again be teaching in the Peace, Trade, and Development program this summer at MIIS. This four-week course is designed to give upper-level students and new professionals the concepts and tools to work in human security, global trade, social change and development. Dr. Iyer will begin teaching on July 24th […]

The Role of Media in Insurgencies and Conflict Resolution

The Center for Conflict Studies will be co-sponsoring a lecture, along with the M2 Lecture Series, by Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Middlebury, Orion Lewis. The lecture, entitled “The Coverage of Conflict: The Role of Media in Insurgencies and Conflict Resolution,” will discuss the role international media coverage plays in conflict resolution and […]

International Education Day

Last week CCS participated in International Education Day at MIIS, a celebration inspired by the International Education Week headed by the U.S. Department of State to promote cross-cultural understanding and education on a global scale. MIIS brought about 130 high school students to campus to participate in a range of activities and learn about the […]

CCS Office Open House

  On Thursday, the Center for Conflict Studies celebrated the official opening of its new office on the Monterey Institute campus! The office is the Center’s first physical location and will be used primarily as a base for meetings and research. We marked the occasion with an open house, and were pleased to welcome many […]

Peace, Trade, and Development Program

This summer, our director Dr. Iyer taught in the Peace, Trade, and Development program, a four-week course at MIIS designed to give upper-level students and new professionals the concepts and tools to work in human security, global trade, social change and development. Dr. Iyer began teaching on August 5 with two sections: Introduction to Conflict […]