Opening Up is a podcast series that features faculty, staff, students, and community members engaged in the Conflict Transformation (CT) Collaborative at Middlebury. Learn more at our website: https://www.middlebury.edu/conflict-transformation
Opening Up: A Conflict Transformation Podcast
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Opening Up is a podcast series that features faculty, staff, students, and community members engaged in the Conflict Transformation (CT) Collaborative at Middlebury. Learn more at our website: https://www.middlebury.edu/conflict-transformation
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Recent Episodes
June 9, 2025
Mediator and Teacher: Julian Portilla
Mediator Julian Portilla shares personal and professional insights on mediation and conflict transformation, emphasizing perspective-taking, de-escalation, and the value of understanding conflict in this interview.
May 19, 2025
From Post-Conflict Reconstruction to Democratic Dialogues
<p class="MsoNormal">In this episode, we talk international post-conflict reconstruction, foreign aid, and domestic public policy dialogue with Dr. Naazneen Barma, a member of the External Advisory Board of the CT Collaborative.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Barma is the founding Director of the <a href= "https://korbel.du.edu/scrivner">Doug and Mary Scrivner Institute of Public Policy</a> at the University of Denver (DU) and is a professor in political science <a href= "https://korbel.du.edu/directory/naazneen-barma/">at the Korbel School of International Studies</a> at DU. She has worked at the World Bank, taught at the Naval Postgraduate School, and was a co-founder of <a href="https://bridgingthegapproject.org/">Bridging the Gap</a>, which brings scholarly research to global public policy.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">We mention two of Naaz’s publications in our conversation:</p> <ul> <li class="MsoNormal"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style= "font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span> <!--[endif]-->The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States (2017) (<a href= "https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/peacebuilding-puzzle/155E4450DEEE8533AADA45F659E6A0A6">link at Cambridge University Press</a>)</li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span id="span-78-4487-6-3" class="ct-span" data-id="span-78-4487">Naazneen Barma, Naomi Levy, and Jessica Piombo. 2020. "The Impact of Aid Dynamics on State Effectiveness and Legitimacy." <a href= "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12116-020-09304-7">Studies in Comparative International Development</a> 55 (2), June 2020: 184-203.</span></li> </ul> <p><span class="ct-span" data-id="span-78-4487">Learn about the members of the CT External Advisory Board at our website here: <a href= "https://www.middlebury.edu/conflict-transformation/who-we-are#external-advisory-board"> https://www.middlebury.edu/conflict-transformation/who-we-are#external-advisory-board</a> <br /> </span></p>
May 5, 2025
Practicing Negotiation: Tools for Skill-Building
<p class="MsoNormal">In this episode, we bring you a panel discussion with two practiced negotiators. In January, the CT Collaborative and MiddCORE each planned to bring an expert in to help build student skills - and so we decided to put our two visitors in conversation with one another.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!-- [if !supportLists]--> <!--[endif]--><span style= "mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Morgan Gaskin Thomas is Managing Director and Americas Lead for Accenture’s Resolution Excellence Center. She has previously served as an adjunct professor at South Texas College of Law. She has her undergraduate degree in philosophy from Southern Methodist University and her JD from Cornell.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Sarah Federman is associate professor of conflict resolution at the University of San Diego and author of the book Transformative Negotiation. She spent a decade as an international executive before changing careers to focus on corporate accountability, mass violence, and peacebuilding.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Learn more about MiddCORE and about our experts at the links below.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href= "https://www.middlebury.edu/middcore">https://www.middlebury.edu/middcore</a> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/morgan-gaskin-thomas/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/morgan-gaskin-thomas/</a> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href= "https://sarahfederman.com/">https://sarahfederman.com/</a> </p>
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