When SIT Graduate Institute student Alice Urban began looking for a practicum, she told her advisor, SIT professor and journalist Christian Parenti, she was looking for three things. “I told him I’d like for it to be a meaningful experience, I want to learn things that I couldn’t learn in an office or in a [...]
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Highlights from SIT’s 2012 CONTACT South Asia Program
SIT Graduate Institute’s Conflict Transformation Across Cultures (CONTACT) Peacebuilding Training and Education in South Asia program hosted its largest group ever — 50 participants — in December 2012. The program is a two-week professional training in conflict transformation held yearly in Kathmandu, Nepal, for working professionals in the South Asia (SAARC) region. The CONTACT South [...]
SIT Announces 2013 Field Courses in Barbados, Turkey, Liberia, and Washington, DC
SIT Graduate Institute announces new, intensive field-based courses in Barbados, Turkey, Liberia, and Washington, DC, for winter and spring 2013. Designed and led by SIT core faculty, the field courses provide students with experiential learning opportunities—in the US and abroad—through interaction with practitioners in the field, organization and project site visits, and professional networking. To [...]
SIT Student Reflects on Intercultural Communications Course in Turkey
by Ian Hefele In January 2012, 22 SIT students (who are American) convened in Istanbul, Turkey for SIT’s field-based Intercultural Communications course taught by Professor Linda Gobbo. We spent a week in Istanbul doing community service, touring the city, and learning Turkish. Of course, we drank buckets of tea. Week two was spent in a [...]
SIT Faculty Leads Advanced Practitioner Workshop in Washington, DC
From February 13 to 17, 2011, Tatsushi Arai, associate professor of conflict transformation at SIT Graduate Institute, led an advanced practitioner workshop on cross-cultural communication in Washington, DC. The event was sponsored by the Center for Stabilization and Reconstruction Studies (CSRS), a California-based education and research institution. The workshop brought together 35 highly accomplished practitioners [...]
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