Events & Speaker Series
October 10, 2024
How to Have Civil Discussions
A panel discussion hosted by Seton Hall featuring Dr. Zheng Wang, Dr. David Opderbeck, and Dr. Jess Rauchberg.
February 27th, 2023
Historical Memory in Foreign Affairs
Dr. Zheng Wang – Invited Lecture
School of Professional & Area Studies - Global Issues
Foreign Service Institute
March 3rd, 2022
Women Peacemakers Before and After 1325
Featuring Rosa Emilia Salamanca, Director Institute for Social and
Economic Research (CIASE)
View recording here.
December 2nd, 2021
Women Peacemakers Before and After 1325
Featuring Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Founder and Chief of Inclusive Society,
View recording here.
April 15, 2021
Towards an Ethics of Commemoration
A discussion on the topic: Towards an Ethics of Commemoration - Reflections on Armenia’s Quest for Recognition with Hans Gutbrod, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
To view the recording, please click here.
October 19, 2020
CPCS Speaker Series: Superpower Dialectics: Dueling Perceptions and the Crisis in U.S.-China Relations
Featuring Robert Daly, Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Wilson Center
For more information, please click here.
April 24, 2020
CPCS Speaker Series:
The Role of Women in Negotiation Conflict Dynamics in Syria
Featuring Walaa Aloush,‘I Am She’ Network.
December 5, 2019
Re-imagining Conflict Mediation and the Role of Religion
The team of the CARIM program – a joint initiative of the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich and the Human Security Division at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) –discusses how conflicts with religious dimensions pose challenges for mediation. Drawing on experiences of the Swiss FDFA in contexts such as Tajikistan, Iraq, Morocco and Sri Lanka, the team offers ideas and suggestions for how we can “re-imagine” mediation in order to transform conflicts in these challenging contexts. Read more.
September 30 - October 1, 2019
Seton Hall's Peace Conference, which is open to the public, will use Pope Francis's teachings as a guidepost for examining what it means to live and promote peace in the context of today's cultural and social currents. Read more.
June 23-25th, 2024
Euro-Pacific Dialogue
​Co-convened by Dr. Linda Maduz and Dr. Zheng Wang and featuring experts from Asian, Europe, and the U.S. Read the newsletter here.
December 1st, 2022
Women Peacemakers Before and After 1325
Featuring Asila Wardak, Commissioner of the Independent Human Rights Commission of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. View recording here.
October 25th, 2022
Women Peacemakers Before and After 1325
Featuring Chrstine Ahn, Founder and Executive Director of Women Cross DMZ. View recording here.
April 7th, 2022
Women Peacemakers Before and After 1325
Featuring Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate. View recording here.
November 8-10, 2021
History as an Instrument of Contemporary International Conflicts
Inaugural lecture by Zheng Wang: When Coronavirus Meets Nationalism: Pandemic, Memory, and the Collapse of the U.S.-China Relations
Organized by the Pedagogical University of Cracow, University of Leipzig, and Institute of European Network Remembrance. Learn more.
March 26, 2021
Conference on Women and Gender: Women Peacemakers Before and After 1325
Featuring Rajaa Altalli, Co-founder and Co-director of the Center for Civil Society and Democracy in Syria.
To view the recording, please click here.
September 14, 2020
CPCS Speaker Series: Leadership in
Social Conflicts
Featuring Mohammed Dangor, South Africa's former ambassador to Syria, Libya and Saudi Arabia
For more information, please click here.
April 16, 2020
CPCS Speaker Series: Empathy in Conflict Resolution
Featuring Matt Waldman, Center for Empathy in International Affairs.
October 17, 2019
The Center for Peace and Conflict Studies welcomes Noura Hamadji, Deputy Assistant Administrator, and Deputy Regional Director of the Regional Bureau for Africa at UNDP to speak with students about the links between peacebuilding and state-building in developing contexts, drawing on comparative knowledge across Africa. Read more.
August 18 - 22, 2019
Current and incoming students will discuss conflicts in daily life, the workplace, and global society and learn effective skills and strategies for mediation and conflict resolution. Read more.
July 2, 2024
Make China Great Again: Dream, Nationalism, and New Identities
Lecture by Dr Zheng Wang at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies in Zürich. Learn more here.
November 10th, 2022
Women Peacemakers Before and After 1325
Featuring Visaka Dharmadasa, Founder and Chair of Association of War Affected Women and Parents of Servicemen Missing in Action. View recording here.
September 28th, 2022
Women Peacemakers Before and After 1325
Featuring Dr. Bilqis Abuosba, President of Awam Foundation for Development and Culture.
March 23rd, 2022
The War for Ukraine
Featuring: Nina Potarska, WILPF; Ronald Jensen, USIP; Hans Gutbrod, Ilia State Univeristy; Zheng Wang, CPCS and the School of Diplomacy
View recording here.
February 9th, 2022
Migration, Human Rights and Conflict:
Conversation with Bernardo Rodriguez, Head of the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the People of Oaxaca, Mexico
September 10, 2021
Ask the Experts:
Afghanistan
Featuring former Afghan
Ambassador Sayed Jalal Karim, Andrew Watkins (USIP), Dr Sara Moller, Dr Joseph Huddleston, Professor David Wood. To view the recording, please click here.
November 2, 2020
CPCS Speaker Series: Peacemaking in Lebanon
Featuring Assaad Chaftari, Co-founder and Vice President, Fighters for Peace, Lebanon
For more information, please click here.
August 25, 2020
Film Screening:
10 Days before the Wedding
Screening of 10 Days before the Wedding (Adenium Productions), on the experience of living through the Yemen conflict.
March 28, 2020
CPCS Speaker Series:
Conflict and Culture
in Yemen
Featuring Shoqi Al-Maktary, Search for Common Ground.
October 10, 2019
Professor of Practice David Wood shares experiences of supporting dialogue between groups in violent conflict, from a range of contexts including the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Read more.