Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Business for Peace Collaborative
"USIP Public Education for Peacebuilding Support Program"
4:30 p.m., 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave.
WOSU's Ann Fisher will lead a discussion on how economic development and business affects peace, and how peace building and end of conflicts impact regional development, rule of law, and economic growth. Organized by Mershon affiliates Esther Gottlieband John Carlarne, the panel will be introduced by David Manderscheid, executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and include Patrice McMahon, associate professor of political science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Christopher Gelpi, Chair of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at the Mershon Center; Yoram Haftel, associate professor of international relations at Hebrew University in Jerusalem; andMason Foster Ye, an undergraduate business scholar at Ohio State. This event is underwritten by the U.S. Institute of Peace Public Education for Peacebuilding Support Initiative. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/businesspeace
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Eitan Alimi
"The Relational Context of Radicalization: The Case of Jewish Settler Contention before and after the Gaza Pullout"
Noon, 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave.
Eitan Alimi is senior lecturer in political sociology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His book Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada (Routledge, 2007) was awarded the 2008 best English book on Israeli Politics by the Israeli Political Science Association. A book on radicalization and de-radicalization in the case of the Jewish settler movement has recently come out (Resling, 2013), and a co-authored book on processes of radicalization in comparative perspective is under contract with Oxford University Press. He will discuss why some social movements experience radicalization while others do not, compairing of two episodes of Jewish settler contention. Read more at go.osu.edu/alimie
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