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TODAY: Amazonia nossa terra – Amazon Our Land

Dear friends

We invite you to participate in the launch of the CD ‘Amazon Our Land’ by the young artists from the band ‘Backyard Drums’, from the project Rivers of Meeting, this Saturday from 7pm onwards, in the Afro-Indigenous community… Continue reading

A Reflection on Boston: Protection through Connection and Collaboration

A Letter to the Editor of the Boston Globe newspaper:

Undaunted by horror, heartbreak, and ominous uncertainty, the people of Boston stood strong. In their race against terror, Boston showed us how courage through connection and collaboration can be our… Continue reading

New Book: The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet

Dear HumanDHS friends

Commons Knowledge
The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet
By: Ramez Naam
Published: April 9, 2013
By: UPNE
364 Pages
ISBN: 978-1611682557

The free market is such a powerful catalyst of innovation that… Continue reading

TEDx Teachers College: Columbia University, New York City, April 23, 2013

TEDx Teachers College: Columbia University, New York City, April 23, 2013
When: 9:00 AM ~ 4:30 PM, April 23, 2013
Where: Cowin Center Auditorium (Horace Mann 147), Teachers College, Columbia University
Register:
CLICK HERE
Schedule: CLICK HERE

As seating is… Continue reading

EDUCATION ACROSS THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE: April 18-20th; Columbia University, New York City

EDUCATION ACROSS THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE!

As you know the ALAS team has been very hard at work to make this a success. Our only request is that you circulate the flier and program as much as you possibly can! Let’s make this… Continue reading

Diversity in Research and Practice Conference 2013: “Changing the Game: Expanding Discourses in Research”

Diversity in Research and Practice Conference (DiRP)
2013 Conference Theme:
“Changing the Game: Expanding Discourses in Research”

Friday April 19 – Saturday April 20, 2013
Teachers College, Columbia University
Joyce Cowin Conference Center | 525 W 120th Street, New York… Continue reading

Roundtable Breakfast on Good and Bad Mediation

Dear HumanDHS Friends

The Association for Conflict Resolution
of Greater New York and
The CUNY Dispute Resolution Consortium
at John Jay College
present
Monthly NYC-DR Roundtable Breakfast

IDENTIFYING GOOD AND BAD MEDIATION PRACTICE

Professor Elizabeth Stokoe

THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013… Continue reading

International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict

Forwarded message from the Coalition for the International Criminal Court:

Dear Coalition members,We were informed about a new International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict led by the Peace Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative and an… Continue reading

Why Are Associate Professors So Unhappy?

June 3, 2012
http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Are-Associate-Professors/132071/

Lisa DeJong for The Chronicle

Three associate professors at the College of Wooster (from left, Amy Jo Stavnezer, Judith Amburgey-Peters, and Susan Lehman) have formed a support group to help guide one another through the difficult… Continue reading

Earth Is Headed for Disaster, Interdisciplinary Team of Scientists Concludes

http://chronicle.com/article/Earth-Is-Headed-for-Disaster/132165/
June 6, 2012
By Paul Basken

An interdisciplinary group of 22 scientists, combining paleontological evidence with ecological modeling, has concluded that the earth appears headed toward catastrophic and irreversible environmental changes.