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2019 Winter Program in Multi-track Diplomacy: Transforming Violent Conflict
Introducing a 2019 Winter Program Course "Multi-Track Diplomacy: Transforming Violent Conflict", offered January 2 to January 22, 2019. Registration for this course and for the Winter 2019 session opens in October 23, 2018.The goal is to develop the knowledge and skills needed to facilitate transformation of community or societal conflicts, including ethnic, religious or cultural tensions, using techniques of multi-track diplomacy. -
The Israeli Palestinian Experiment
Introducing a 2018 Summer Program Course "The Israeli Palestinian Experiment", offered June 18 to July 6, 2018.
This course provides an in depth understanding of the conflict using simulations that explore cometing historical narratives and the search for common ground. Topics include: Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, water rights, border disputes, and security concerns.
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In Memory Of Ted Gurr
A pioneer in the field of political conflict and instability, Ted Gurr passed away in 2017. As a Professor Emeritus and Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Government and Politics and CIDCM at the University of Maryland, Dr. Gurr was internationally-recognized for his theoretical, comparative, and historical studies of societal conflict.
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New CIDCM Research Project: Modelling Early Risk Indicators To Anticipate Malnutrition (MERIAM)
David Backer and Paul Huth of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) are leading a University of Maryland (UMD) team that has been awarded a $1.2 million four-year grant for the project Modelling Early Risk Indicators to Anticipate Malnutrition (MERIAM). The sponsor is the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID). UMD is receiving a subaward from the nonprofit organization Action Against Hunger (ACF), as part of a total project budget of over $3.7 million.
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Soldiers and Sanctuaries: How Armed Non-State Actors Build and Deploy Coercive Power to Win Wars
Jacob Aronson, Paul Huth, and Mark Lichbach of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) and the Government and Politics Department (GVPT) at the University of Maryland (UMD) have been awarded a grant of $150,000 from the Smith Richardson Foundation to study insurgent sanctuary in civil wars.The project will focus on identifying the causes and consequences of insurgent sub-national access to four different ideal-types of sanctuary: makeshift, hidden, unhardened, and fortified. The first phase of work will seek to explain sub-national variation in sanctuary access--where groups build sanctuaries and why. -
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About CIDCM
CIDCM seeks to prevent and transform conflict, to understand the interplay between conflict and development, and to help societies create sustainable futures for themselves.
For more than 20 years, scholars and practitioners at CIDCM have sought ways to understand and address conflicts over security, identity, and distributive justice. CIDCM programs are based on the belief that "peace building and development-with-justice are two sides of the same coin" (CIDCM Founding Director, Edward Azar, 1987).
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