Peace Leadership: Exploring Peacebuilding From the Ground Up
Osher Online | Registration closed 9/13/2024
Explore the peacebuilding stories behind the headlines. Within the broad field of peacebuilding, the scales are decidedly tipped to study the phenomena around conflict resolution, transitional justice, and third-party interventions, most of them at the hands of diplomats and politicians. While these areas represent legitimate efforts to negotiate treaties and monitor compliance, history has shown the Sisyphean nature of these approaches in terms of implementation and securing sustainable peace. What has drawn far less attention are the valiant and courageous efforts of peacebuilders on the ground who are working in unimaginable circumstances, and in many cases in partnership or cooperation with sworn enemies. This course will examine the elements of a construct known as “positive peace,” which can and does exist, even in areas where conflict continues, through the lens of peace activists working on the ground. This six-week program will include a mix of background reading, videos, faculty presentations, and small-group interaction.
(Current OLLI Members Only)
Class schedule: Live lectures will take place on Tuesdays, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, via ZOOM
- Live Lecture 1 Tuesday, 10/1/24
- Live Lecture 2 Tuesday, 10/8/24_
- Live Lecture 3 Tuesday, 1/15/24
- Live Lecture 4 Tuesday, 10/22/24
- Live Lecture 5 Tuesday, 10/29/24
- Live Lecture 6 Tuesday, 11/5/24
As this class is delivered by the National Resource Center for OLLIs (NRC) at Northwestern University, you will receive a welcome email from osheronline@northwestern.edu. The email will include your credentials (username & password) as well as a hyperlink to the Osher Online Website through which you will access your course website.
Aleen Bayard, Ph.D.
Lauren Andersen is the director of the Utah Judicial Institute. Andersen practiced appellate law in the state of California and presented arguments to the California Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court. During this time, Andersen closely studied the Roberts Court. She has lectured about the Supreme Court and the death penalty. Her opinions were quoted by The New York Times and the ABA Journal. She was previously the director of the Osher
Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Utah.