In response to that crisis, a grassroots effort called the #WeWillListen campaign began to educate the community on all the resources in Park County to help with mental health.

The campaign has put up billboards and signage around Livingston, in and outside of the schools, with the #WeWillListen logo and the phone number to the National Suicide Hotline.

Read more from the Bozemandailychronicle.com [HERE].

Violent Extremism & Human Rights: A Path to Prevention

Coupling Rights with Security in the Campaign Against Terrorism

From Orlando to Brussels to Baghdad to Jakarta, few regions of the world have been spared the violence generated by those who see value, meaning and opportunity in joining and supporting groups like ISIS. There is growing international resolve to develop joint and sustainable ways to address the transnational threat of violent extremism. Notably, human rights are increasingly seen as critical and pragmatic components—as part of the solution, not an objective that must either be accommodated or a separate line of effort.

Counterterrorism strategy traditionally has been the purview of national governments who have laid claim to both defining what constitutes a security threat and determining how best to mitigate it. As the nature and scope of this current wave of political violence has evolved and spread beyond borders, however, the international community is increasingly leveraging its influence and collective voice against this threat. In January, for example, the United Nations released its Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism to call for concerted action.

“Countries where terror attacks are concentrated are highly correlated with those where the state commits gross human rights abuses.”

The discourse on responses to terrorism and violent extremism, especially in the past decade, has often revolved around the need to “balance” rights and security.

Read more from the United States Institute of Peace's Blog [HERE]. 

We're gearing up for the Moving Negotiation Theory from the Tower of Babel Toward a World of... symposium.  Part of this gearing is an ongoing conversation of books directly and obliquely pertinent to negotiation.

In this blog post, authored by John Lande at Indisputably.org, Prof. Lande and Prof. Andrea Schneider discuss her article on Teaching a New Negotiation Skills Paradigm. Check it out! 

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• What if…? Creative Approaches to Inter-professional Conflict in Hea... (9/15)
• 10-Year Anniversary Reception (9/15, following the workshop)
• Event Honoring Three Werner Institute Alumni During Homecoming Events (9/15)