Monday, September 15, 2025 from 5:30 - 7:00 pm

Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Room 3540

Please join us to hear from the 2025 Matz Fellowship awardees about their summer experiential learning opportunities! 

Monday, September 22nd, 2025. Pizza Lunch 11:00 am - 12:00 pm. Boat Cruise departs at 12:00 pm.

Fox Point Pavilion (across University Drive, between Wheatley and McCormack Hall)

Join fellow students, staff, and faculty for a pizza social!

Boat Cruise is optional. We recommend reserving a ticket (free for students, $10 for employees) via the Marine Operations website. 

Monday, September 29, 2025 from 5:30 - 7:00 pm

Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Room 3540

Dr. Michelle Jurkovich reflects on her year at the Office of Global Food Security at the State Department and the profound changes to US approaches to global food security.

Join UMass Boston Conflict Resolution faculty and staff for an informal online info session!

Zoom - Tuesday September 30 at 10:30 - 11:30 AM

Two sessions are being offered (identical, no need to attend both):

• Wednesday, October 8, 2025 from 10:00 - 11:00 am

• Thursday, October 16, 2025 from 4:00 - 5:00 pm

Zoom - Register for Link

Please join us to celebrate the release of GGHS professor Stacy VanDeveer's new edited volume!

Thursday, October 9, 2025 from 5:30 - 7:00 pm

Campus Center, 2nd Floor, Alumni Lounge (Room 2551)

Dr. Fakhoury discusses how the politics of conflict management and displacement generate tensions and trade-offs that influence each other’s trajectories.

Join UMass Boston Global Governance & Human Security (GGHS) faculty and staff for an informal online info session!

Zoom Friday, November 14, 2025 from 10:30-12:00 PM 

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 from 5:30 - 7:00 pm

Campus Center, 2nd Floor, Alumni Lounge (Room 2551)

Details of talk TBD, please stay tuned!

Join UMass Boston International Relations faculty and staff for an informal online info session!

Friday, November 21 at 12:30 - 1:30 PM

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 from 5:30 - 7:00 pm

Zoom - Register for Link

Matt will share some reflections on the 25+ years since his completion of the program and pose several reflective questions for both current students and alumni to consider while charting a career path. 

Friday, July 11, 2025 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm

Zoom Event (register for link)

This dissertation examines how narrative strategies serve as tools of influence, legitimacy, and coalition-building in international treaty negotiations, using the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) process for a global plastics treaty as a case study.

Thursday, June 26, 2025 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm

Integrated Science Complex (ISC), 2nd Floor, Room 2003 or Zoom

This project investigates that strategic use of violent attacks on schools by state and non-state actors during the Bosnian War (1992-1995), challenging the assumption that such attacks are simply collateral damage.

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm

Zoom Event (register for link)

This study explores labor organizing by healthcare workers in Kenya’s public health sector, including motivations, characteristics, and impacts of such organizing efforts.

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 from 6:00 - 10:00 pm

Waterclub Marina Bay, 319 Victory Rd, Quincy, MA 02171

Invite only event. Open to members and friends of the department.

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 from 5:30 - 7:00 pm

Campus Center, 2nd Floor, Room 2540

Please join us for an enlightening evening: Conflict Resolution Master’s Students will showcase their hard work, presenting the findings of their master's projects, theses, and integrative seminars representing a wide variety of topics.

Monday, May 12, 2025 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm

Integrated Sciences Complex (ISC), 2nd Floor, Room 2003 or Zoom

This study analyses how the US translates policy into practice, through an evaluation of reporting compliance with the Ramsar Convention on wetlands protection. 

Thursday, May 8, 2025 from 5:30 - 8:00 pm

Integrated Sciences Complex (ISC), 3rd Floor, Room 3300

Please join us as our brilliant International Relations Master’s Students showcase the findings of their throught provoking capstone projects representing a wide variety of topics.

Presenters:

Julian M. Nowak, Understanding government structure affects on policy implementation: COVID-19 in the UK, US, and Canada

Mikael Lawrence Killian, Frozen Sovereignty: Realism, International Law, and the Geopolitical Stakes of the Cyprus Conflict

Fatou Sidibe, Protecting Women and girls from sexual violence during conflict, the Case of the Central African Republic

Rodney M. Duteau, The importance of NATO to US hegemony in Europe

Stella Lupondo, Regional Integration and Poverty Reduction in Africa: The Impact of EAC in Poverty Reduction of the Region

Judith Mweli, The Role of African Women in Political Participation and Peacebuilding

Join UMass Boston faculty and staff for an informal one-hour, online info session!

Zoom - Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM

Monday, April 28, 2025 from 4:30 - 6:00pm

Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Room 3540

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 from 5:30 - 7:15pm

Integrated Sciences Complex (ISC), 3rd Floor, Room 3300

Professor McEvoy’s research explores how to get armed groups to engage with transitional justice processes such as truth recovery, reparations, apologies and acknowledgement for past harms. 

Integrated Sciences Complex (ISC), 1st Floor Atrium

Thursday, April 17, 2025. Reception 5:00 - 6:00 pm, Lecture 6:00 pm.

Congressman McGovern will discuss his vision for promoting human rights and peace in a moment of widespread conflict and international upheaval. The Annual Slomoff Lectureship brings together leading scholars and practitioners advancing the field of conflict resolution.

Friday, April 11, 2025 from 12:30 - 1:30 pm

Zoom Event.

This study examines laws criminalizing LGBTQ sexuality in the Anglophone Caribbean states through the lens of Queeribean feminism.

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from 9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Room 3545

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from 11:00 - 12:15 pm

Zoom Event

(Note: this virtual event will not count towards satisfying the Colloquium attendance requirements for Conflict Resolution students)

Monday, March 31, 2025 from 9:00 - 12:00 pm

Zoom Event

Have writing to do? Don't want to write alone? Come and go as you need. All members of the department welcome!

Thursday, March 27, 2025 from 5:30 - 7:00 pm

Campus Center, 2nd Floor, Alumni Lounge

Please join us to celebrate the release of CRHSGG professor Catriona Standfield's new book!

March 12, 2025 from 2:00 - 3:00pm

Integrated Sciences Complex (ISC),1st Floor, Room 1400

Join UMass Boston faculty and staff for an informal one-hour, online info session!

Zoom - Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 from 5:30 - 7:00 pm

Please join us for a discussion about how the skills of conflict resolution and mediation can contribute to better public policy processes 

Join UMass Boston faculty and staff for an informal one-hour, online info session!

Zoom - Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM

Join UMass Boston Global Governance & Human Security (GGHS) faculty and staff for an informal online info session!

Zoom Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from 10:30-11:30 am

Join UMass Boston faculty and staff for an informal one-hour, online info session!

Zoom - Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM

Titled: Gender, Socioeconomic Marginalization, and Grassroot Organizing in Kenyan Fisheries.

ISC, 1st Floor, Room 1200 and Zoom

Tuesday, December 17, 2024 Public Presentation 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 

Join CRHSGG community for end of semester celebration. 

Wheatley Hall, 4th floor Room 028 (CHRSGG conference Room) 

Monday, December 9, 2024 from 2:30 - 5 PM 

The value of mentorship featuring David Matz

Campus Center, 2nd floor, Alumni Lounge (2551)Thursday, December 5, 2024.

Thursday, December 5, 2024, from 5:30 - 7:00 pm.