NECR Opportunity: Supporting the Next Generation of Peacebuilders
The world is full of violent conflict. It’s not easy, but history teaches us that nonviolent responses can be incredibly effective at bringing about peace. Peacebuilding requires learning, and the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (NECR) program provides the real-world skills and tactics the next generation of peacebuilders will need to succeed.
Students in the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (NECR) program at Columbia’s School of Professional Studies are taught how to dive deep into the heart of real-world conflict, learning how to analyze its impetus and gaining the skills to intervene. The program teaches students to analyze the root causes and dynamics of conflict and transform disputes through reasoned and resourceful interventions. They go on to build peaceful solutions globally and within their own communities.
How Can You Help?
The communities that require peacebuilding leadership often need help in training the leaders they need. NECR provides opportunities for you to help the students and the communities that need help reducing violence the most.
Sponsoring a Peacebuilding Practicum
NECR provides intensive in-person peacebuilding workshops in locations like Medellin, Colombia; NYC; and Hiroshima, Japan, where global leaders are actively applying advanced strategic negotiation and conflict resolution techniques to bring about non-violent resolution to conflict. Sponsoring a practicum allows students who may not otherwise be able to attend develop the critical skills they need to bring about peace in their own communities.
Sponsoring a Semester or Year for an NECR Student
With courses led by some of the world’s premier scholar-practitioners in negotiation and conflict resolution, NECR focuses on developing self-awareness, tenacity, and interpersonal competency; building common ground; opening lines of communication; ensuring representation and recognition; and building sustainable possibilities for resolution. Sponsoring a semester or a year of the program helps a budding peacebuilder advance their skills so they can bring them back to their own communities.
Establishing a Peacebuilding Scholarship for a Student through NECR
With a world-renowned faculty and network of like-minded alumni and peers, Columbia’s NECR Master’s program is the ideal on-ramp to careers that have real global impact. Full-time students of NECR develop advanced negotiation and mediation skills, with an emphasis on effective communication and conflict resolution strategies. Sponsoring full participation in the NEC graduate program can help students from underserved communities develop and launch careers in law and arbitration, finance and negotiations, government, peacebuilding, and more.
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Learn More About the Peacebuilding Practicum in Colombia
You go not as a tourist but as a scholar or researcher. You get a much deeper understanding of the conflict you’re studying.
