Audio by AC4 in News Archive

AC4 December

Peter T. Coleman interviews Larry Liebovitch, Professor of Physics and Psychology at Queens College of the City University of New York.

AC4 Interview with Nick Redding & Christianna Gozzi

The following interview is from Conversations on the Leading Edge, a collaboration between the Earth Institute's Advanced Consortium on Conflict, Cooperation, and Complexity and WKCR's Late City Edition. In this conversation, Dr. Peter Coleman interviews his colleagues Nick Redding & Christianna Gozzi about the formation of AC4 and the development of the AC4 Link initiative.

The Five Percent

An interview with Peter Coleman, professor of psychology and education here at Columbia University and director of both the Center for International Conflict Resolution and the Earth Institute's Advanced Consortium on Conflict, Cooperation, and Complexity. In the interview, Late City Edition Producer Nico Esguerra and Coleman discuss his recent book, The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts and his work in the field of conflict and peace studies.

Marc Levy, Haiti Earthquake

For this month's collaboration with The Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4), Professor Peter Coleman sits down with Professor Marc Levy. The two discuss Professor Levy's work in Haiti, leading up to and following the devastating 2010 earthquake. Professor Levy is Deputy Director of the Center for International Earth Science Information Network.

Complexity, Intractability, and Social Change

Intractable conflicts are those conflicts that persist over time and space. They draw us in and we seem to remain trapped in their grip despite efforts of many to resolve them. Examples are easy to identify – from national and international conflicts to a longstanding family feud. In his 10-minute talk, Dr. Peter Coleman will share a new way of thinking about and engaging in intractable conflict – through the lens of complexity science and dynamical systems theory

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