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About President's FORUM.

The President's FORUM. is a series of monthly convenings in which ACR-GNY President Dr. Nick Pozek invites prominent conflict resolution practitioners and scholars to discuss a broad range of timely topics, including geopolitics, peacebuilding, human rights, and social justice. Past guests and topics have included:
  • Susan Kang, The U.S. Election: Implications for Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law
  • Christopher Ankersen, Civil-Military Relations
  • Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Political Economy of the Commons
  • Kieran McEvoy, Apologies in Transitional Justice
  • Dr. Qian Wei, Civic Organizations, Democracy, and Authoritarian Regimes
  • Dr. Olajumoke Ayandele, Political Stability, Development, and Conflict
  • Dr. Waheguru Pal Sidhu, Ukraine and Nuclear Dangers
  • Dr. Mark Lacy, Theorizing Future Conflict

The President's FORUM. series provides a platform for experts to share their insights and perspectives on today’s critical issues. These thought-provoking and informative discussions offer valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities for conflict resolution.

ACR-GNY members may attend the President's FORUM. at no cost, and it is just one of the many benefits of ACR-GNY membership. Learn more and become an ACR-GNY member today!


Upcoming

    • Friday, March 27, 2026
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • ZOOM
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    President's FORUM. monthly discussions | timely topics | free for members.

    Garrett FitzGerald: Peacebuilding in Settler-Colonial Societies


    The local turn in Peace Studies has raised important practical and normative questions around the ‘liberal peace’ approach that defines post-Cold War international peacebuilding. However, recent critical interventions reveal the limits of the local turn’s engagement with themes including race, gender, class, and colonialism. Engaging Indigenous authors who ground diverse conceptualizations of peace in the restitution of Indigenous land, this conversation will explore how the local turn’s theoretical framing of indigeneity risks erasing decolonial accounts of Indigenous peacebuilding within settler-colonial societies and consider what it means to ground the study and practice of peacebuilding in our relationship to the land and solidarity with its inhabitants--human and otherwise.

    The discussion will be moderated by ACR-GNY President Nick Pozek.

    President's FORUM. is a series of monthly discussions on timely topics in conflict resolution. All President's FORUM. events are free for ACR-GNY members. Join now!

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    Garrett FitzGerald is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Peace & Justice Studies at Pace University. His research highlights patterns of exclusion in the theory and practice of international peacebuilding. By centering decolonial accounts of peace as connectors between different ways of knowing and being, his work seeks to develop new modes of dialogue and solidarity to promote peace beyond material, epistemic, and ontological violence.

    Date: Friday, March 27, 2026
    Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm (Eastern Time)
    Cost: ACR-GNY Members attend for free; Non-members attend for $20 (scholarships available)

    Location: Virtual via ZOOM

    Pre-registration is required.

    Please note that President's FORUM. events are not recorded.


    Contact us with questions at questions@acrgny.org.

    This program is supported by ACR-GNY's 365 Sponsor:


Past events

Friday, November 21, 2025 President's FORUM. Diego Galego | Queering Policymaking in Latin America
Friday, October 24, 2025 President's FORUM. Stephanie Golob | Post-Conflict Societies and the (Conflictual) Politics of Memory
Friday, September 26, 2025 President's FORUM. Jennifer Pax | Mediation and Social Work
Friday, August 22, 2025 President's FORUM. Bethany Lacina | Migration and Nativism
Friday, July 25, 2025 President's FORUM. Chelsea Ebin | The Manosphere and Male Supremacism
Friday, May 09, 2025 President's FORUM. Ş. İlgü Özler | Human Rights and Global Governance at the United Nations
Friday, April 25, 2025 President's FORUM. Peter Liberman | Revenge and Foreign Policy
Friday, March 21, 2025 President's FORUM. Sarah Federman | Power, Oppression, and Negotiation
Friday, February 21, 2025 President's FORUM. Bekeh Ukelina | Culture & Conflict Resolution among the Bette
Friday, December 13, 2024 FORUM. Susan Kang | The U.S. Election: Implications for Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law
Friday, November 22, 2024 FORUM. Christopher Ankersen | Civil-Military Relations
Friday, September 27, 2024 FORUM. Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili | Political Economy of the Commons
Friday, August 16, 2024 FORUM. Kieran McEvoy | Apologies in Transitional Justice
Friday, July 26, 2024 FORUM. Dr. Qian Wei | Civic Organizations, Democracy, and Authoritarian Regimes
Friday, June 14, 2024 FORUM. Dr. Waheguru Pal Sidhu | Ukraine and Nuclear Dangers
Friday, May 03, 2024 FORUM. Olajumoke Ayandele | Political Stability, Development, and Conflict
Friday, April 19, 2024 FORUM. Mark Lacy | Theorizing Future Conflict
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