The physical geography of a place can have a major impact on political stability and human well-being. Are certain landscapes more prone to armed conflict? How can we reverse this impact and contribute to sustaining peace? This panel brings together four expert scholars and practitioners in peace and security to explore the roles that landscape and spatial understanding play in making and sustaining peace in communities around the world. We will discuss geography's role in the challenge of terrain, state formation, and conflict through interwoven disciplines of history, journalism, international security, and anthropology to consider how our understanding can be used to set the conditions for sustainable peace.
We will be featuring:
Judith Matloff, Author & Columbia Journalism Professor
Paul Gillingham, Historian of Modern Mexico & Author
Dipali Mukhopadhyay, Author & Columbia Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Aldo Civico, Author, Anthropologist, & Conflict Resolution Lecturer at Columbia (moderator)