Gender Diversity Interest Group March 2022

The Gender Awareness Group is a place to discuss gender-based issues around the world and address ways to support communities that could benefit from our skills as peacebuilders. The group will focus on the local and international issues facing those on the spectrum of gender identity with a view to understanding the social impact. Issues…

MBBI-NY, CSW 66 Event

Join Mediators Beyond Borders International’s (MBBI) United Nations Multilateral Working Group (UNMWG) and MBBI-NY -- and co-sponsored by the CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College -- on Saturday, March 19th, 12:00PM – 1:30PM ET (US) for a virtual event exploring climate change's disproportionate effect on women and girls -- the priority theme for the sixty-sixth session of the…

Our Brains at War: The Neuroscience of Conflict and Peacebuilding

Engage in this exciting webinar, Our Brains at War: The Neuroscience of Conflict and Peacebuilding. Led by Mari Fitzduff, this webinar title suggests that we need a radical change in how we think about war, leadership, and politics. Most of us, political scientists included, fail to appreciate the extent to which instincts and emotions, rather than…

Facilitating Listening Circles

These two weekends are designed to enhance the skills of a variety of individuals – from the mediator who wants to learn these skills to deepen or expand their practice, to people in corporations or non-profits who want to use circles and conferences to prevent and resolve conflict. This is ideal for people who want…

UNMWG March 2022 Meeting

MBBI's United Nations Multilateral Working Group (UNMWG) was created in response to the United Nations’ (UN) call on civil society to help build its mediation capacity. UNMWG fosters partnerships to support the international community’s mediation and conflict prevention capacity-building efforts, advocates for the use and value of mediation in the UN system, and engages MBBI membership in collaborating with and supporting the…