President's FORUM. Garrett FitzGerald: Peacebuilding in Settler-Colonial Societies

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.

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