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John W. McCorMaCk Graduate SChool of PoliCy and Global StudieS

• Global Governance and Human Security, PhD

• International Relations, MSPA

• Conflict Resolution, MA

• Conflict Resolution, Graduate Certificate

interdisciplinary approaches to real-world problems

Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance

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Working at the intersection of theory and practiceThe Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance offers graduate programs that address political, economic, interpersonal, and organizational forces that shape societies, both locally and globally. Working at the intersection of theory and practice, our students develop the skills and insights needed to play an active role in influencing knowledge, policy, and practice around the world.

Within the University of Massachusetts Boston, we are housed in the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, home to three academic departments and fourteen research centers and institutes.

With an emphasis on social justice, government accountability and transparency, strengthening democratic institutions, and sustainable policies for people and the planet, McCormack trains the next generation of local and global leaders in conflict resolution, gerontology, global governance and human security, international relations, public affairs, and public policy.

Intellectual rigor and policy relevance lie at the core of our research, teaching, and service. We connect concepts and people across disciplines, geographies, and levels of governance, working at the local scale in Boston as well as on larger domestic and transnational issues, in settings and institutions worldwide. Distinguished policymakers, practitioners, academics, and educators frequently visit campus to participate in conferences and symposia. Monthly colloquia, an annual lectureship, roundtable discussions, and career forums provide opportunities for building community, offering students exposure to a broad spectrum of topics and presenters.

Our mission is to provide graduate programs that help students develop innovative, multidis-ciplinary solutions to address local, regional, transnational, and global issues. We offer a range of degrees, including a doctorate in Global Governance and Human Security, a master’s degree and graduate certificate in Conflict Resolution, and a master’s degree in International Relations. A degree from one of our programs will prepare you to succeed in today’s interconnected world. We invite you to learn more about our internationally ranked graduate programs and the pioneering research of our faculty, and to find out how you can engage and constructively affect societies both locally and globally.

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Our Graduate Programs

Training and informing the next generation of global leadersPhD Program in Global Governance and Human SecurityFounded in the fall of 2012, this interdisciplinary program pre-pares scholars and analysts to provide intellectual leadership as academics, researchers, or practitioners in nongovernmen-tal organizations (NGOs), intergovernmental agencies, media, national governments, think tanks, and private companies. Ini-tial cohorts include midcareer professionals seeking to advance their analytic and professional development. The curriculum focuses on the outcomes that matter most to individuals: secure forms of economic welfare and human development; environmental stewardship and sustainability; public health; human rights; human security; political freedom; and the inter-relationships among them. The program’s primary tracks mir-ror the interconnected strands of a set of global issues: conflict resolution, the environment, gender, human rights and human security, global political economy, human development, and global public health. Students who wish to explore a new area of inquiry can develop their own track and course of study.

IGERT Program: The University of Massachusetts Boston received a $3.1 million Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the new program “Coasts and Communi-ties: Natural and Human Systems in Urbanizing Environments.” Students across four graduate programs at UMass Boston will work collaboratively on developing solutions to environmental problems, conducting fieldwork in Massachusetts Bay and the Horn of Africa. The PhD program in Global Governance and Human Security will admit two IGERT fellows a year for the next five years.

MSPA in International RelationsThis two-year professional degree program is designed to give students an understanding of the current international system and the political, economic, and cultural factors that influence policy formation. The curriculum explores theory, international political economy, the effects of globalization, problems and prospects in the developing world, the role of regionalism and regional integration, and the dynamics of international conflict. Students are trained to think theoretically and apply tools and methodologies to analyze a wide range of international public policy issues.

Graduate Programs in Conflict ResolutionOffering students the option of completing either a two-year master’s degree or a one-year graduate certificate pro-gram, we train students in conflict resolution, collaborative decision making, and problem solving. Established in 1986, these were among the first programs in conflict resolution in the United States. Students are exposed to nonviolent, collaborative resolution methods, including facilitation, negotiation, mediation, dialogue, and consensual decision making. Courses are designed to help students understand the causes and characteristics of conflict. Students are equipped with the skills to effectively intervene in a variety of conflict situations, both locally and globally. Graduates are employed in such varied fields as business, education, elder affairs, environmental and public policy, health care, human resources, labor relations, law, ministry, and public- and private-sector management.

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The Center for Governance and Sustainability seeks to be an agent of change for better governance across scales and geographies. To this end, it produces rigor-ous and applied scholarship on real-world policy chal-lenges related to the environment, development, and sustainability. Engaging students, faculty, and fellows across disciplinary, institutional, and political bound-aries, the Center also creates a corps of new interna-tional professionals committed to academic excellence, public service, and innovative leadership. Thirteen core and partner research initiatives are housed within the Center, including the Global Environmental Governance Project, the Environmental Conventions Implementation Project, and the Future United Nations Development System (FUNDS) Project. Students work with faculty and peers from around the world on state-of-the-art research and provide intellectual input to global policy processes where the Center often serves as an honest broker of productive dialogue.

Our Research Centers

Developing innovative approaches to complex problems

The Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development is dedicated to advancing democ-racy, rule of law, and economic and social devel-opment in transitional and developing areas. Working with local partners, our projects focus on strengthening local government and civil society; promoting viable, independent media; helping judiciaries become more effective and transparent; assisting in conflict prevention and reduction, and expanding educational and economic opportuni-ties. Fundamental to the mission of the Center is mentoring students to be the next generation of peace and democracy builders. Working together, faculty and students seek creative solutions to empower peace and development in fractured societies by addressing complex divisions and reinforcing principles of peace and reconciliation to better build democracy.

The Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance houses two world-class research centers. Through these centers, faculty and students work closely together to develop innovative approaches to complex problems.

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J. Samuel Barkin PhD Columbia UniversityGraduate Program Director, International Relations

Professor Barkin studies theories of interna-tional relations and organizations, with particular attention to environmental politics, monetary politics, theories of sov-ereignty, and constructivist theory. His books include Saving Global Fisheries: Reducing Capacity to Promote Sustainability (MIT, 2013), International Organization: Theories and Institutions, 2nd Edition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Fish (Polity, 2011), and Realist Constructivism: Rethinking International Relations Theory (Cambridge, 2010).

Maria Ivanova PhD Yale University Co-Director of Center for Governance and Sustainability

Professor Ivanova is an international relations and environmental policy scholar specializing in governance and sustainability. Her research and policy work focus on global environmental governance, U.S. environmental policy, financing for the environment, and the performance of inter-national environmental institutions. Her academic work has been recognized for bringing analytical rigor and innovative input to the international negotiations on reforming the UN system for environment. She has worked closely with nation-al governments and UN agencies in providing an academic perspective into their political positions about international environmental governance. In 2013, she was appointed to the UN Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board.

Darren KewPhD Tufts UniversityExecutive Director of the Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development

Professor Kew studies the relationship between conflict resolution methods and democratic development in Africa. Much of his work focuses on the role of civil society groups in democratic devel-opment. He monitored the last three Nigerian elec-tions and the 2007 elections in Sierra Leone, and has worked with the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations to provide analysis and blueprints for preventing conflicts around the world, including Nigeria, Central Africa, and Kosovo.

David E. Matz JD Harvard University

Professor Matz is founder and former director of the Graduate Programs in Conflict Resolution. His work focuses

on mediation and negotiation and their relation-ship to organizations and courts. In the U.S., he has trained mediators, judges, and engineers. In Israel, he was a central figure in developing policies and practices for the Israeli Ministry of Justice and Supreme Court in integrating mediation into the judicial system. He has also done teaching and training in China and Nigeria, and has recently worked in the U.S. as a mediator in multi-party health care disputes.

Our Faculty

Passion, vision, innovation

Our Research Centers

Developing innovative approaches to complex problemsCollaboration is at the core of our faculty and student relationships. Our faculty members are internationally recognized scholars and practitioners in fields such as cross-cultural conflict and intergroup relations, democratic development, environmental governance and sustainability, gender studies, global health, international relations and political economy, and mediation and negotiation.

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Craig N. MurphyPhD University of North Carolina, Chapel HillCo-Director, Center for Governance and Sustainability

Professor Murphy studies the global politics of economic development, global governance, inter-national political economy, and international rela-tions theory. He has published widely on U.S. policy toward the developing world, the economic debates within the UN, the UN Development Programme, the International Organization for Standardization, and the co-evolution of industrial capitalism and inter-national institutions. His books include The Interna-tional Organization for Standardization (ISO): Global Governance through Voluntary Consensus (Routledge, 2009), and The United Nations Development Pro-gramme: A Better Way? (Cambridge, 2006).

B. Jane L. ParpartPhD Boston University

Professor Parpart’s work focuses on development, gender studies, social policy, conflict, and human security.

She has studied African urban history, including an in-depth examination of masculinities, gender, and violence in Zimbabwe from 1953 to 2005. Her books include Gender, Conflict and Peacekeeping, co-edited with Angela Raven-Roberts and Dyan Mazurana (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), and Rethinking Empowerment in a Global World: Gendered Perspectives, co-edited with Shirin Rai and Kathleen Staudt (Routledge, 2002).

Timothy M. ShawPhD Princeton UniversityGraduate Program Director, Global Governance and Human Security

Professor Shaw focuses his research on international political economy, global governance, human development, and human security, with par-ticular emphasis on Africa and the Caribbean region. He is a leading scholar and animator, most recently as professor and director at the Institute of Interna-tional Relations at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine in Trinidad. He edits the international politi-cal economy book series for Ashgate Publishing and Palgrave Macmillan, where his titles include Compara-tive Regionalisms for Development in the 21st Century: Insights from the Global South (Ashgate, 2013) and The Diplomacies of Small States (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Our Faculty (continued)

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Courtenay SpraguePhD University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Professor Sprague’s research centers on understanding and addressing inequi-

ties in health outcomes and quality health care for marginalized population groups through changes in clinical practice, social policy, and law. She has focused particularly on women and children with HIV, and is interested in the linkages between health, human development and capabilities, and the health systems’ capacity to deliver HIV treatment and prevention in sub-Saharan African countries and Brazil.

Eben Weitzman PhD Columbia UniversityChair, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global GovernanceGraduate Program Director, Conflict Resolution

Professor Weitzman is a social and organizational psycholo-gist specializing in the study of conflict. His work focuses on conflict within and between groups, with emphases on organi-zational conflict, cross-cultural conflict, and intergroup rela-tions. Weitzman conducts conflict resolution, organizational development work, and dispute resolution systems design with a wide variety of individuals and organizations. These have included organizations in human rights, health care, education, organized labor, government, law enforcement, social services, business, and the courts.

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Our Students

Reaching beyond the classroom, engaging with real-world issues and problems

Students come to our programs from six continents and more than thirty countries, bringing a wide range of backgrounds and a rich diversity of experience. Many are midcareer, while others arrive directly from university degree programs. Those enrolled in our professional degree programs, both full- and part-time, bring their previous education and often their professional experience to enrich our learning environment. Our PhD candidates come to us with advanced degrees from the world’s leading universities, including Jawaharlal Nehru University, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, and Yale Law School. Many have worked for international organizations and national governments, including the World Health Organization in Geneva and the Environmental Protection Authority in Addis Ababa.

In each of our programs, the learning experience extends beyond the classroom. Students work as research associ-ates on a range of projects, and put theory into practice as part of hands-on community facilitations. Here is a sampling that, while not inclusive, illustrates the range of activities in which our students are engaged.

Building BRIDGES The BRIDGES project seeks to enhance communication and build positive and constructive working relationships among the Greater Boston Muslim, Arab, and Sikh com-munities and federal law enforcement agencies. In an ongoing project, faculty and students design and facilitate productive dialogues around issues such as immigration, law enforcement, employment, and human rights.

Interreligious Dialogue The Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development is working with the Interfaith Mediation Centre, a grass-roots organization based in Kaduna, Nigeria, that pro-motes peace among warring political, social, and religious groups. Working as Center Fellows, students conduct evaluations and training workshops as part of a major ini-tiative to expand IMC’s interfaith peacemaking efforts in Northern Nigeria.

An Oasis of PeaceOur departmental faculty has a long-standing relationship with Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salaam (“Oasis of Peace”), an intentional community in Israel of Arab and Jewish fami-lies established more than thirty years ago. Faculty mem-bers have conducted workshops and offered courses at the village, while instructors from their School for Peace have conducted workshops for students on our Boston campus. Several alumni are serving on the Board of Directors of the American Friends of Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salaam. The University of Massachusetts Boston is currently estab-lishing a satellite campus at the village to offer graduate degrees in conflict resolution.

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Our Students

Reaching beyond the classroom, engaging with real-world issues and problems

Land Use Planning in EthiopiaGambella National Park in southwest Ethiopia is home to the second-largest overland animal migra-tion in the world and is under threat from agricul-tural investors. Students work with the Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network at Addis Ababa University on a multiyear project to develop a comprehensive land-use plan that seeks to protect the park and its wildlife while allowing for significant international investment in the region.

Environmental Conventions Implementation IndexThe Center for Governance and Sustainability initiated a study, engaging several graduate students, to assess the level of implementation in nine global environmen-tal conventions (in the areas of atmosphere, biodiver-sity, chemicals and waste, and land). The project seeks to create an Implementation Index to assess the prog-ress in countries which are parties to the conventions in fulfilling their obligations and to facilitate dialogue among convention officials, government representa-tives, and researchers in order to improve understand-ing of the process of implementation and its results.

Veteran Court Consortium The Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development has assembled a team of students, academics, veterans, social workers, psychologists, mental health counsel-ors, and community activists to conduct a study of therapeutic justice models as applied to Veteran Courts in Massachusetts. The consortium’s goal is to examine the deterrent, fiscal, and social efficacy of therapeutic justice sessions as applied to veterans, while creating a model capable of replication throughout the state and ultimately for wider use.

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The quality and success of any graduate program can be measured by the accomplishments of its graduates. Alumni of our programs are helping to shape societies locally and globally, in fields as diverse as business, academia, govern-ment, international affairs, public policy, law, education, health care, labor relations, and international humanitarian work. Some make their contributions more quietly than others, and we are proud of them all. Here is a short list that illustrates the scope of their work.

Jeannie Adams (MA Conflict Resolution 2004) is director of the Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Division of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. She previously served as director of Public Sector ADR Programs with the Massachu-setts Office of Dispute Resolution.

Camilo Azcarate (MA Conflict Resolution 1999) is manager of Mediation Services for the World Bank Group; he previ-ously served as University Ombuds Officer at Princeton University.

Jerry Fletcher (MA Conflict Resolution 2007) is manager, Reservation Systems, Customer Strategy & Social Media, for Delta Air Lines.

Maria Gertrudis Hernandez-Palacios (MA Conflict Resolu-tion 2003) has joined the Office of Mediation at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC.   Jamie Kirsch (MA Conflict Resolution 2011), a 2011 Presi-dential Management Fellow, is working in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Conflict Stabilization Operations as a Foreign Affairs Officer. She serves on one of three overseas operation units, and is currently responsible for the design and implementation of the Community and Governance project in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region.  

Our Alumni

Helping to shape societies locally and globally Ngozi Ifeoma Malo (MA Conflict Resolution 2005) is chief of staff to the Minister of Energy in Nigeria. She was selected as a 2013 Desmond Tutu Fellow by the African Leadership Institute, run in conjunction with Oxford University.

Deborah Mendez-Bowen (MA Conflict Resolution 2000) is director of mediation in the Office of the United Nations Ombudsman and Mediation Services at UN Headquarters in New York. Before joining the UN, Ms. Mendez was managing director and founding partner of the Institute for Dispute Resolution Ltd., a private firm in Trinidad and Tobago.

Conzolo Migliozzi (MSPA/IR, 2010), associate fellow at the Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development, has part-nered with the Canadian NGO Academics Without Borders to deliver teacher training to faculty at the University of Liberia using online learning.

Jeffrey Range (MSPA/IR, 2009) is program associate at Collaborative Decision Resources (CDR) in Boulder, CO, working on land use, energy, and transportation projects for groups such as the Inter-American Development Bank and the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

Colin Rule (Graduate Certificate 1999) is founder and CEO of Modria.com, an online dispute resolution provider based in Silicon Valley. While director of online dispute resolution (ODR) for eBay and PayPal, he devised and implemented a system that helps resolve more than 60 million buyer/seller disputes every year.

Lisa Witzler (MA Conflict Resolution 2009) is an associate ombudsman in the Office of the Ombudsman, Center for Cooperative Resolution, at the National Institutes of Health.

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An environment where students can innovate, influence, contribute, and succeedUMass Boston is a public research university with a dynamic culture of teaching and learning, a vibrant, mul-ticultural educational environment, and a special dedication to urban and global engagement. Committed to creating new knowledge while serving the public good of the city and the world, UMass Boston nurtures the integrated and mutually reinforcing core values of scholarship, teaching, and public service.

With a growing reputation for innovative research addressing complex issues, UMass Boston offers its diverse student population both an intimate learning environment and the rich experience of a great American city. UMass Boston’s ten colleges and graduate schools serve more than 16,000 students while engaging local, nation-al, and international constituents through academic programs, research centers, and public service activities.

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