IPCR Weekly Bulletin
Job and Internship Opportunities
IPCR Program, Skills Institute Assistant (around 15 hours per week)
The IPCR Skills Institute Assistant will communicate and coordinate with the skills institute instructors,
the IPCR Coordinator, and the Director of the IPCR Skills Institute Program to develop each semester’s
set of skills institutes. He/she will work closely with the instructors to prepare materials and advertise
institutes, secure space, and provide administrative support before, during, and after each institute by
being on hand during the five weekends when institutes take place during the semester. In addition, this
position provides general support to the IPCR office on administrative and communications tasks and
special projects.
Student must be eligible for Federal Work Study. Please send CV and cover letter to Nicole Smith at
peace@american.edu.
Center for Intercultural Education and Development, Mentor (Resident Assistant), March 10
Georgetown University’s Center for Intercultural Education and Development (CIED) seeks Mentors
(Resident Assistants) to work with undergraduate students from the Middle East and North Africa
participating in a 6-week Summer Intercultural Institute, the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), in
the United States (June 29-August 8, 2015). The goal of this program is to allow students from the region
to learn about the United States firsthand, strengthen their leadership and cross-cultural communication
skills and develop long-lasting friendships with Americans. Please visit the IPCR website for further
information on this position. The deadline to apply is March 10.
Interfaith Power & Light, Baltimore/DC Program Associate
Interfaith Power & Light, a grassroots interfaith climate organization, seeks a warm and energetic
community organizer to engage Baltimore/DC religious communities of all faith traditions in taking
action on climate change. This organizer will serve through a service corps program, which involves an
intentional living community of young people committed to service, justice, and prayer, and possibly
weekly spiritual programming. The Baltimore/DC organizer is a one-year position with a monthly stipend
either through the Lutheran Volunteer Corps or the Episcopal Service Corps. Please note that these are
two different positions, one is Baltimore-based and the other is DC-based. For more information, please
visit http://gwipl.org/about-us/join-our-team/.
Events
New Beginnings…Building Multicultural Communities of Healing, Hope, and Joy, March 4
Join us for a special presentation by Deborah Drennan, Executive Director at Freedom House, a
temporary home for survivors of persecution seeking asylum in the United States and Canada. Drennan
will discuss how the Freedom House sanctuary and its services begin the healing process for many
refugees, through the organization's guiding principles that all people deserve to live free from oppression
and to be treated with justice, compassion, and dignity. Come learn about political asylum so you can
raise awareness about this issue on campus and in your own community.
The event will be held in the Kay Spiritual Life Center from 11:30am-1:00pm on March 4th. To RSVP,
visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exploring-social-justice-building-multicultural-communities-ofhealing-hope-and-joy-tickets-15865823104.
Consumer Assembly, March 12-13
Since 1967, the Consumer Federation of America's Consumer Assembly has served as the consumer
movement's principal meeting where consumer issues are reviewed, policy reforms are discussed, and
new initiatives are presented. Once again, Consumer Assembly 2015 will have two special features:
an emphasis on consumer protection and financial services and health and safety. For each of these
subjects, there will be at least two roundtable discussions and at least one general session.
The roundtables will feature comments from a broad array of experts drawn from the consumer
movement, academia, government, and business. General Sessions will feature both keynote speakers and
panel discussions of issues of broad consumer interest.
The conference will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 12 and conclude at 12:00 p.m. on Friday,
March 13. All those with an interest in consumer issues are invited to attend. For more information, visit
https://www.signup4.net/Public/ap.aspx?EID=CONS164E.
Women’s Right to Dignity, Security, and Justice, March 14
This program, the third in a series of CSW symposia focusing on crimes against women, their struggle for
justice, and possibilities for establishing the criminal culpability and liability of the violators of their
rights, will be based on the presentation of quilts memorializing the women victims of the Rana Plaza
collapse (Bangladesh 2012) and the Triangle Fire (New York 1911). An interactive program includes
viewing and discussing the messages of the quilts, a panel on the development of the quilts with
cooperation from survivors, art forms for educating and raising public awareness, and discussion of
possibilities for legal accountability.
Sign in at 11:30 for coffee and interactive process. Panel at noon followed by discussion and further
interaction on strategies for justice. The event will be held on March 14th at the Fordham University
School of Law at Lincoln Center. For more information, please visit http://www.i-i-p-e.org/csw15/.
From Prosperity to Family: American Dog Rescue and Discourse of Compassion, March 16
Distinguished Adjunct Professor Andrei Markovits will discuss his book From Prosperity to Family:
American Dog Rescue and Discourse of Compassion. Andrei Markovits is the Arthur F. Thurnau
Professor and the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The book (co-authored with Katherine Crosby) is a detailed look
into the cultural history and cultural impact of dog rescue in the United States.
This event will take place on March 16 from 3:30 – 5pm in the Abramson Family Founders Room.
SIS Graduate Student Council Town Hall Meeting, March 20
Come together with student leaders and fellow SIS graduate students for a town hall meeting to raise
concerns, questions and suggestions you may have regarding SIS. If you can’t make it, check out GCS’s
Facebook page: facebook.com/sisgsc.
The meeting will take place on March 20 from 7:00-9:00 pm in Ward 2
Nonviolent Communication Bazaar, March 21
Nonviolent Communication (NVC), or Collaborative Communication, is a powerful tool for resolving
and mediating interpersonal, intra-personal, organizational, and inter-group conflicts. It is used worldwide
by parents, teachers, doctors, social workers, managers and others to improve their work and home life.
The practice of NVC can help us understand ourselves more fully, provide us with a sense of power and
choice in our lives, and open our hearts to compassionately connect and collaborate with others. This daylong public event will bring together DC-area NVC trainers to offer a variety of interactive sessions on
various topics for participants with a variety of skills levels to choose from.
The event is free and childcare available upon request. To register or find more information, please visit
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MKiN55IMzB84JdwVnRYdmsazx7p5ZahTUJNIE3DK4_I/viewform.
Contact maassara@american.edu with any questions, interest in contributing, or other suggestions.
South Sudan Crisis: Human Rights and Role of International Community, April 8
Since December 2013, South Sudan has been embroiled in renewed violent conflict. More than 1 million
have been forcibly displaced and over 20,000 people have been killed. Most of the displaced are women
and children, living in dire conditions within refugee and protective camps. Mediation efforts by the
African Union’s Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) along with the US, EU, and UN
have failed to establish any sustainable peace. The conflict threatens the social fabric of South Sudanese
society as well as the stability of the entire East African region.
Join Creative Peace Initiatives in a discussion with South Sudanese and other experts on the root causes
of the conflict and approaches for its resolution. The event will be on April 8 from 6-7:30pm in the
Abramson Family Founders Room. Food will be served!
Additional opportunities and information can be found on the IPCR website:
www.american.edu/sis/ipcr and SIS Events: http://www.american.edu/sis/events/index.cfm.