Tufts Innovates!

Here’s a nice bit of Fletcher news.  Two faculty projects are among the nine selected for special attention and funding from the University provost through the “Tufts Innovates!” program, designed to find new ways to enhance learning and teaching across the university.  These descriptions reached us this week:

Charting Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Resolution in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Lessons from Theory and Practice.  Students at the Fletcher School will learn to apply negotiation and conflict resolution theories, with emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  Presentations by senior-level practitioners and policymakers will be available campus-wide, providing an opportunity for community learning.  The principal investigator is Nadim N. Rouhana, professor of international negotiation and conflict studies.  Also on the team developing the course is Michael Baskin, Fletcher PhD candidate.

Human Security Core Course Development.  Human security is about the well-being of people rather than of the state, as encompassing as the economy, environment and food.  Eileen Babbitt, professor of international conflict resolution practice at the Fletcher School, will lead the development of a multidisciplinary course that explores the theories and applications of human security, focused on one country undergoing conflict or transition.  The goal is to offer the course in the spring 2015 semester.  Also on the team developing the course is Professor Alex de Waal.

Check out the full article for more details on “Tufts Innovates!”