The URI Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies is seeking to recruit and train 25 URI students to work on nonviolence education projects. Interested students who complete the course and successfully demonstrate training outcomes will receive Certification as Nonviolence Trainers. Students can enroll in PSY478 section 01 for a 3 credit training course leading to the certificate. The course will study nonviolence as an applied process for conflict reconciliation and social change based on the principles and practices of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Emphasis on the application of evidence based prevention strategies and intervention practices to contemporary problems of violence and conflict within interpersonal, school, community, and global contexts. Students will be prepared to deliver 2-day Kingian Nonviolence workshops. The course will meet on Wednesday afternoons, 4 to 6:45pm, in MCC 201. Please contact Professor Paul Bueno de Mesquita with any questions: pauldem@uri.edu or 401.8749037.

This new graduate nonviolence course, offered in Spring 2010 is designed as an introductory graduate level seminar bringing together academic psychology (especially social and cognitive psychology) and ideas derived from the traditions of nonviolent problem solving from several cultures. We will focus on understanding predictors and proposed mechanisms of violence and peace, as well as factors that may prevent or inhibit ready access to this understanding. This course will be the “foundations” course for the coming Graduate Certificate Program in Nonviolence and Peace Studies. Students should consult with their major professors about other program requirements that may be met or strengthened by the course. The course will meet on Wednesday afternoons, 2 to 4.50pm, location TBA. Please contact Professor Charlie Collyer with any questions: collyer@uri.edu or 401-258-9834 (cell).

This is the common experience for students in the Minor in Nonviolence and Peace Studies. However, it is open to others if space permits. Students are introduced to people on campus and in the community who are associated with the Center. C. Collyer

This seminar is a small-group, classroom version of PSY 425, Peace Psychology. C. Collyer

This is an online course introducing students to the branch of psychology represented by Division 48 of the American Psychological Association, also called the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence. The concerns of Peace Psychology include direct violence, structural violence, short-term peacemaking, and long-term peacebuilding. P. Zappardino