Peace and Conflict Studies

MIMA SIMIĆ: Croatian writer, film critic, activist, media personality, and Croatian LGBT person of the decade.  Mima will talk on "LGBT Politics and Activist Strategies of Media Subversion,” discussing how she and other activists and organizations have used strategies of media subversion to affect public and social attitudes on homosexuality and gender in Croatia. Katherine McFarland Bruce, Elon visiting assistant professor of sociology, will join Mima and compare and discuss LGBT activism in the United States, specifically the South. 

Spaces are still available for the Study USA Winter Term program "Wealth & Poverty"

Witness for Peace speaker Anibal Perez talks about environmental and social justice in Colombia. 

Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. in LaRose Digital Theater, Koury Business Center

Thursday, Nov. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Numen Lumen Pavilion.

"An important exploration of the complex psychology of mass murderers.” -Journalist Chris Hedges

“I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade... it is unprecedented in the history of cinema.” –Documentarian Werner Herzog  

“A Masterpiece – an examination of institutionalized violence, guilt on individual and national scales, and the role of cinema to both shape and reflect our darkest impulses.” –Village Voice 

Come to the first film and discussion of the new Global Neighborhood's Film Series.

Elon University faculty experts, joined by a colleague from UNC Chapel Hill, explored on Sept. 11 the complexities of resolving a civil war in Syria that has escalated with the use of chemical weapons.

The 5:30 p.m. program on Wednesday is sponsored by four academic programs: Peace and Conflict Studies, International Studies, Political Science and Policy Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies.