The Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations held its third annual “All Conflict is Local: Personal Experience, Reflection, and Conflict Resolution” conference.
Read more“Nine days, seven flights, four cities, two princes, one kingdom – and limitless cups of Arabic coffee,” the Diplomatic Envoy’s own Managing Editor traveled to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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After graduating a semester early last year, School of Diplomacy alumna Zoe Sellers (’17) headed off in March to serve in the Peace Corps as a secondary education English teacher in East Java, Indonesia.
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Watching my Jordanian host family cheer on the win of a Christian Palestinian and empathize with the tears of a Yemeni, and seeing the televised audience of different identities and origins dancing together in Lebanon made me think that perhaps Pan-Arabism is real — even if it exists, for now, in the realm of “Arab Idol.”
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Gabi Hunt meets Gaith Jann, a man who left his job and began selling books, fueled by a nostalgic memory of a childhood constantly surrounded by literature, and the goal of doing something that felt fulfilling.
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By Gabrielle Hunt Staff Writer For Diplomacy students, the endless quest for peace between Israel and Palestine represents more than
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To begin, trigger warnings—particularly when used on the internet—seem to be indicative of the larger issue millennials (for lack of better terminology) are facing and will continue to face: meaningful interaction.
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Syria’s most recent ceasefire continues to flounder as heavy airstrikes continue. The ceasefire, brokered jointly by the United States and Russia on September 12, lasted a week before an aid convoy was struck west of Aleppo.
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One of the most immediate implications felt from Daraya’s fall is that it has heightened Assad’s confidence that the Syrian government can successfully regain all rebel-controlled land, as the capture of Daraya will likely have a domino effect. Daraya’s siege has upset the opposition effort, while “encouraging the army to believe it was in reach of subduing rebel bastions,” according to Reuters.
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