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A Communications Approach
CMM is the acronym for the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM), a phrase that is describes what we do when we communicate with each other. Listen to this great new episode of the AC4-WKCR (89.9FM) show, Conversations from the Leading Edge, with Dr. Beth Fisher-Yoshida and Venera Kusari, a 2015 CMM Fellow and alumni of Columbia's Masters in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program, to learn more about CMM and how it can be used to resolve conflict. Visit the website for more information about the annual CMM conference and the AC4-CMM fellows program.
Click here to get the episode and listen now!
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AC4 Film Series
Racing Extinctions Screening
Along with the Environmental Law Society (ELS) and Association of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Students at Columbia (ANCoRS), AC4 is hosting a screening and Q&A of Racing Extinctions with the film director and Columbia's Michael Gerrard.
Mark your calendars!
Monday, November 23, 6:30pm
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AC4 Fellowship Alumnus
Jonathan Blake, 2011
This AC4 alumnus came from Columbia's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and, as an AC4 fellow, traveled to Northern Ireland to study how religion, nationalism, and politics interact in Protestant Orange parades.
Where are you now?
I finished my PhD in the spring, defending in April and graduating in May 2015. I currently wear a couple hats: one as a post-doc research scholar at SIPA and then also I am a research fellow at the Schumir Foundation for Ethics and Leadership in New York. At Shumir Foundation, I direct a research project that we are in the middle of now. The Congress of Vienna 2015 just happened last week, which was a culmination of some of this project to date. It brought together policy makers and thought leaders to discuss ideas on global governance and managing relations, including focus on global powers, nuclear risk reduction, innovations to deal with current migration challenges and also ways to use policy and technological innovation in addressing poverty and global inequality.
How has the AC4 Fellowship Program shaped your Columbia experience or career goals?
AC4 funded the first trip I took to Belfast. I have now been several times over the course of now four years, and for longer stays, but that first trip is what allowed it all to happen. With six weeks, I was able to build contacts, start a network and really begin the actual research process. After the AC4-sponsored fieldwork, I was able to get other scholarships. I could show evidence from the fieldwork and support from AC4 on my approach and importance of the research topic. It gave me a proven track record for the ability to do research in this place in which I now have a deep and long relationship. I’m currently writing a book that will be out next year; the book is Contentious Rituals Parading Faith and Nation in Northern Ireland.
Any advice for current and/or prospective candidates to AC4 Fellowship?
AC4 or other similar, smaller grants for summer work may end up turning into a lot of money later on! It’s like a gift that keeps on giving.
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Making Conflict Work App
This new, free, interactive app for navigating interpersonal and professional conflict has been launched and is not available from the Apple Store (for iPhone) and on Google Play (for Android).
It is based on the research published in Dr. Peter Coleman's latest book, Making Conflict Work (and in a recent article in Journal of Organizational Behavior). The app walks the viewer through 5 short questions, and then offers specific strategies and tactics for resolving conflicts constructively in a variety of different situations.
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