Conflict Transformation

A Conversation with Netta Avineri, the New Executive Director of Middlebury’s Conflict Transformation Collaborative

Sierra Abukins — 2025-04-09T10:15:21-0700

At the midpoint of its multiyear conflict transformation collaborative initiative, Middlebury is looking back and looking forward to the next phase of the effort.

Middlebury Students Support Local Initiative to Connect People to Parks

Mark C. Anderson — 2024-10-16T12:49:06-0700

The team visited more than 25 parks across Monterey over the summer to map amenities and do outreach in support of the ParkRx initiative, which aims to get more residents out into nature.

Recognizing Student Excellence: 2023-2024 Impact Report Released

Nadia Pshonyak — 2024-10-03T12:08:42-0700

Join us in celebrating the professional and research accomplishments of Middlebury Institute students documented in our 2023-2024 annual Experiential Learning Impact Report.

Graduate Student Fellows Explore Conflict Transformation Through Hands-On Research Projects

Sierra Abukins — 2024-08-02T15:14:08-0700

Graduate students have the chance to explore how we shift conflict from destructive to constructive and work towards new possibilities via funded fellowships to support applied research and projects.

Faculty and Students Collaborate on 17-Language Anthology Interweaving Peace, Poetry, and Policy

Caitlin Fillmore — 2024-07-19T11:22:17-0700

During a period of escalating global conflicts, nearly 70 international poets contributed writing around the themes of peace, poetry, and policy.

Building a Land Acknowledgment from the Ground Up

Sierra Abukins — 2024-06-14T08:34:43-0700

Over a two-year period, students, faculty and staff worked to shape a land acknowledgment that they hope will be the start, not the end, of a process of learning and deepening relationships with local Indigenous people and tribal nations.

What Can We Expect for This Year’s Election Season? Our Extremism and Terrorism Experts Weigh In.

Sierra Abukins — 2024-04-19T15:11:06-0700

Researchers at our Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism (CTEC) have published key insights into the dynamics at play in the elections, including the weaponization of conspiracy theories, the mainstreaming of hate speech and extremism perpetuated by governments.

New Experiential Learning Trip to Southeast Asia Explored Conflict Transformation through the Mekong River

Stephen Diehl — 2024-04-02T17:36:55-0700

The Mekong originates in the Tibetan Plateau and crosses six countries, including Myanmar, Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia, and Vietnam—offering an excellent laboratory to study the vectors of conflict transformation.

Upcoming Summer Symposium on Russia Offers a New Model for International Education

Sierra Abukins — 2024-01-02T11:02:33-0800

Each year, a small group of graduate students and early-career diplomats are selected to study with the leading intellectuals and practitioners in Eurasian Studies, including experts from the post-Soviet states.

Experts from the U.S., Russia, and China Connect in Uzbekistan for Monterey Trialogue

Sierra Abukins — 2023-12-08T15:15:07-0800

There has never been a greater need for constructive conversation between experts from the United States, Russia, and China—nor fewer spaces or opportunities.