AC4 Affiliated Student Groups
The Association of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Students (ANCoRS) represents the diverse interests of graduate students in the Masters of Science in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (NECR) program and all students interested in conflict resolution at Columbia University. If you are interested in joining the ANCoRS listserv or would like more information, e-mail ColumbiaANCoRS@gmail.com
Columbia University Engineers Without Borders aims to address the problems facing people both locally and abroad by leveraging the skills, talents and passions of Columbia University students and the partnerships formed with our organization. Our members come from all engineering and arts backgrounds, sharing the desire to do meaningful work in improving the lives of others through creative, sustainable, engineering solutions.
Columbia Univiersity Partnership for International Development (CUPID) is a student-led effort across Columbia University to facilitate multidisciplinary dialogue, awareness, and action on international development. Recognizing the University’s excellence in this field, CUPID serves as a channel for individuals interested in international development to take advantage of the University’s wide-ranging human and institutional resources in their academic, extracurricular, and professional endeavors.
Conflict Resolution Working Group (CRWG) at SIPA provides a forum to examine and discuss diverse approaches taken to addressing some of the world’s most complex conflicts. The group organizes events and opportunities for students to gain practical, hands-on training in various conflict resolution techniques and methodologies. They also engage students with professionals and organizations that are dedicated to and working towards promoting conflict transformation.
Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development is an online journal dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary dialogue on sustainable development. This journal aims to bring students, researchers, professors, and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and geographical regions in direct conversation with each other through an online, academically rigorous medium. Humanitarian Affairs Working Group (HAWG) at SIPA seeks to bring together all students interested in Humanitarian Affairs as well as draw connections to other humanitarian issues critical to the understanding of aid, development, security, and human rights. Through expert panels, workshops and other dynamic events at Columbia, we combine the knowledge and expertise of students and faculty with the perspectives of experienced practitioners from the humanitarian sector to create a space for healthy debate and discussion around the most pressing issues in humanitarian aid today. Peace Education Network (PEN) at Teachers College aims to create a space for practitioners, scholars, and activists within and beyond Columbia University to come together and cross-pollinate ideas, build relationships, build community around the broadly defined field of Peace Education and social justice. We focus especially on the challenges facing practice and complement the theoretical learning of our academic setting with practical experience and skill-building opportunities. The Quora Forum for Development Practice at the Earth Institute is a digital platform for graduate students and practitioners involved in sustainable development that was founded by the Earth Institute and Master’s in Development Practice Program for graduate students and practitioners interested in sustainable development. An invaluable tool supporting knowledge-exchange, the Quora Forum provides a space for members to post and receive responses to theoretical or technical questions. 
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