About this Event

Join UNA-Atlanta in the celebration of the United Nation's 75th anniversary with a talk on international identity and multilateralism as important factors in creating a more sustainable and peaceful world.

When: Oct 29, 2020 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Topic: UNA ATLANTA CHAPTER UN75 CELEBRATION

Keynote Speakers:

• Dr. Ángel Cabrera, President, Georgia Tech
• Ambassador Farrukh Khan, Deputy Chef de Cabinet to the 75th President of the United Nations General Assembly
• Ayse Lokmanoglu, Ph.D. candidate in the Communication
• Volker Franke, Professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw
• Melissa Kilby, Executive Director of Girl Up, the global leadership development organization transforming a generation of girls to be a force for gender equality and social change.
• Dr. Sevgin Eroglu, Faculty member in the Robinson College of Business, Departments of International Business and Marketing, Georgia State University. 
• Leonard E. Robinson, Sustainability Strategist for the Archdiocese of Atlanta
• Jennifer McCoy, PhD, Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University
• Dr. Jennifer Hirsch, Inaugural Director of the Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dr. Joe Bock has been working with a team of skilled professionals in the use of technology to de-escalate tension and prevent violence. They formed Election Incident Reporting USA and then reached out to organizations interested in conflict early warning and early response. They, along with Mediators Beyond Borders International and the National Association For Community Mediation, created a nonpartisan umbrella entity, The Trust Network.

They are conducting a series of training sessions on conflict early warning and early response.  If you are interested, please sign up.

Most importantly, if you want to help in one of these ways explained below, please join as a volunteer:

• Geographic Information System/Map Creation
• Geolocation (finding the latitude/longitude of incidents to the street or neighborhood level)
• Media Monitoring (finding deeper information, creating reports)
• Technology (ensuring the platform and interfaces are running smoothly)
• Research and Analysis (analyzing information and creating situation reports, conducting statistical analyses, etc.)

These roles are focused on processing information sent to us via SMS or a form filled out on-line regarding conditions in specific locations.  That information will be used in trend analyses and will be placed onto their digital map. Once a warning is evident, it will be communicated to people in that location who they know and trust.

For those current students interested in this kind of approach, Dr. Bock will be teaching INCM 9530 – Information & Communication Technologies this coming Spring semester and is open to allowing graduate students outside of the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development to enroll.

The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa is pleased to offer its Poster Presentation Competition for undergraduate students at its Thirteenth Annual Conference:

Understanding the Regions:
Politics, Identity, and History of the Middle East and Africa
November 18-20, 2020
Virtual

Presenting a poster is an excellent opportunity for young scholars to show their work in a visual format, promote discussion about their chosen subject, interact with seasoned academics, and receive feedback about their projects.

Information for Applicants: 

• Applicants must be juniors or seniors in the Fall 2020 academic year. 
• Interested students must submit an application via the online submission portal and include a 300-word abstract of original unpublished data.
• Topics must be related to the Middle East and/or Africa.
• Poster presentations will be held virtually.
• The deadline to submit is October 30, 2020.

Successful applicants will be required to register for the Conference. Posters will be judged by how well the presenter demonstrates understanding of their subject matter as well as by the clarity of their presentation. More submission details and guidelines for final poster projects will be made available to confirmed participants.

Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa
www.asmeascholars.org

Resistance Studies Initiative Speaker Series: Distinguished researchers and activists share critical reflections on resistance issues

Jørgen Johansen is an independent peace researcher, bibliophile and trouble- maker living amongst the trees in Southern Sweden. He is the co-editor of Journal of Resistance Studies and runs Irene Publishing.

Abstract: Jorgen will use Sweden as a case of how civil disobedience was, is and will still be, an important ingredient in changing the society in a democratic direction. All the basic democratic freedoms and rights we enjoy today are results of massive popular campaigns, some going back almost 500 years. One element in these campaigns was to openly, in public, violate the old unjust and anachronistic laws and face the consequences of these acts of civil disobedience. Freedom of speech, universal voting rights, freedom of religion, the right to organise a movement (freedom of assembly), etc. are all successful results of campaigns quite similar to the more recent struggles around segregation, environmentalism, ending wars and police brutality.