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  • Peace and Conflict Studies Student Nora Sweeney ’24 shares study abroad experience in Northern Ireland

    Nora Sweeney ’24 is a Peace and Conflict Honors Major student at Swarthmore College, who studied abroad in Northern Ireland during the fall semester of 2022. The Peace and Conflict Studies department has invited Nora to an interview to share her experience studying abroad and provide suggestions to future study abroad students. Question: Before we…

  • Dismantling the Ivory Tower: Class Takes Field Trip to Palestine and Israel

    Dismantling the Ivory Tower: Class Takes Field Trip to Palestine and Israel

    by Isabel Knight This story originally appeared in the Daily Gazette on 16 February 2016. This past winter break, students in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict class taught by Dr. Sa’ed Atshan ‘06 went on a trip to Israel and Palestine for 10 days. The trip, funded by the Lang Center, the President’s Office, and an anonymous…

  • Northern Ireland study abroad interest lunch with David Tombs

    STUDY ABROAD INFORMATION SESSION Semester in Northern Ireland Program Please join Professor David Tombs for lunch Thursday, November 21st, Noon, Sharples #5 Professor David Tombs, Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation for the Irish School of Ecumenics, will meet with interested students and answer questions. The program provides students a unique opportunity to study…

  • THURSDAY Information Session: Northern Ireland Semester

    Interested in conflict and peacebuilding? Social entrepreneurship and sustainable organizing? Come learn about the Northern Ireland Semester, a study abroad program of Swarthmore College. We will hold an orientation session on Thursday, September 20th at 3:30 in SC145. Dr. Denise Crossan (Trinity College Dublin), our in-country supervisor and instructor, will join us via Skype. The…

  • Electronic Resources on Northern Ireland

    Information Technology Services has installed two interactive resources on the PC in the Sociology and Anthropology lab in Kohlberg Hall. Both pertain to Northern Ireland, but have broader relevance to political contention (violent, nonviolent, and institutional), material culture, ethnicity, nationalism, propaganda, etc. If you would like to access these resources, please contact Rose Maio in…