December 11, 2024

Co-organized by Professor Zheng Wang and Professor Gui Yongtao of Peking University, a high-level symposium titled “China as Global Mediator: Peacemaking and Conflict Management” was held on December 11, 2024, at the Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS), Peking University, in Beijing.

The event brought together leading scholars and policy experts from China, Europe, and the United States to examine China’s expanding role as a global mediator. Ambassador Thomas Greminger, Executive Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), led the GCSP delegation, which included Dr. Alexandra Matas, Head of the International Security Dialogue Programme, and Dr. Linda Maduz, Head of the Asia Programme. Chinese participants included Senior Colonel (ret.) Zhou Bo, Research Fellow at the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University, and Professor Li Chen, Deputy Dean of the School of International Studies at Renmin University of China, among other scholars from Chinese universities and think tanks.

The discussions addressed China’s recent mediation efforts in the Middle East—such as brokering the 2023 Iran-Saudi Arabia agreement and facilitating the 2024 Palestinian peace talks in Beijing—as well as its mediation roles in Myanmar, South Sudan, and the Korean Peninsula. Participants also explored China’s potential role in a future Ukraine peace process. In addition, the symposium featured discussions on global collaboration to advance mediation and conflict resolution education and training in China.

July 2, 2024

Lecture by Dr Zheng Wang at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies in Zürich. Learn more here.

November 10th, 2022

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

Featuring Dr. Bilqis Abuosba, President of Awam Foundation for Development and Culture.

March 23rd, 2022

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

Conversation with Bernardo Rodriguez, Head of the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the People of Oaxaca, Mexico 

November 7-8, 2021

David Wood spoke at a workshop organized by the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. Learn more.

September 10, 2021

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

Featuring Assaad Chaftari, Co-founder and Vice President, Fighters for Peace, Lebanon

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August 25, 2020

Screening of 10 Days before the Wedding (Adenium Productions), on the experience of living through the Yemen conflict.

March 28, 2020

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.

October 10, 2024

A panel discussion hosted by Seton Hall featuring Dr. Zheng Wang, Dr. David Opderbeck, and Dr. Jess Rauchberg.

February 27th, 2023

Dr. Zheng Wang – Invited Lecture 
School of Professional & Area Studies - Global Issues
Foreign Service Institute

October 28th, 2022

History and Memory in International Relations/ International Conference

12th Genealogies of Memory 2022: Keynote lecture by Zheng Wang

View recording here.

April 25th, 2022

Featuring Monica McWilliams, Signatory of the Good Friday Peace Agreement in Northern Ireland. View recording here.

March 3rd, 2022

Featuring Rosa Emilia Salamanca, Director Institute for Social and 

Economic Research (CIASE)

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December 2nd, 2021

Featuring Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Founder and Chief of Inclusive Society,

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October 14, 2021

Presented by Chandra DeNap Whetstine, the Vice-President of Programs and Operations at The One America Movement and Seton Hall School of Diplomacy alum. Learn more.

April 15, 2021

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.

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October 19, 2020

Featuring Robert Daly, Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Wilson Center

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April 24, 2020

Featuring Walaa Aloush,‘I Am She’ Network. 

December 5, 2019

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

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

Featuring Asila Wardak, Commissioner of the Independent Human Rights Commission of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. View recording here.

October 25th, 2022

Featuring Chrstine Ahn, Founder and Executive Director of Women Cross DMZ. View recording here.

April 7th, 2022

Featuring Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate. View recording here. 

February 16th, 2022

Featuring Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan, Horn of Africa Development Initiative.

View recording here.

November 8-10, 2021

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.

October 5, 2021

David Wood and Hans Gutbrod spoke at the Chatham House.

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March 26, 2021

Featuring Rajaa Altalli, Co-founder and Co-director of the Center for Civil Society and Democracy in Syria.

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September 14, 2020

Featuring Mohammed Dangor, South Africa's former ambassador to Syria, Libya and Saudi Arabia

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April 16, 2020

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.