War & Peace Series | 2025 & 2026
Join us for an intensive week in Oxford with our faculty, partners, and experienced practitioners.
Oxford Initiative for Global Ethics
War & Peace Series— Special Focus on Global Mental Health, Conflict Journalism, and Trauma-Sensitive Interview Training for Fieldwork
SUMMER 2025 AND MARCH 2026 WORKSHOP SYMPOSIA
July | August week TBA, University of Oxford
22-29 March 2026 | Merton College, University of Oxford
The study of war and peace at the University of Oxford dates back to the 1500s, with notable contributions to just war thinking and the ethics of war. This workshop symposium will address new challenges in war and mental health, women’s bodies and the law, trauma-sensitive interviewing, challenges of women in journalism and politics and ever-increasing violence. All of our workshops explore the roles and agency of women in war and peace—how they participate in their conflicts and tell their stories—and the role of inter-generational trauma in intractable conflicts across time.
This symposium particularly benefits those planning to conduct trauma-informed fieldwork with vulnerable populations in conflict-prone areas. Workshop participants receive our GWNP Duty of Care training certificate in trauma-sensitive interviewing techniques taught in partnership with Resonate Joy trauma specialists. We require Duty of Care Training before interviewing women or editing narratives for the Global Women’s Narratives Project.
The daily schedule in Oxford is generally 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Monday through Friday, with one evening session and one afternoon free to tour Oxford. Check-in to rooms Sunday afternoon and check-out Saturday morning.
Resonate Joy Nonprofit, an arm of the Optimum Joy private practice in Chicago, IL, USA, partners with the Global Women’s Narratives Project to provide trauma-informed training and therapeutic support. Trauma specialists lead several sessions in our Oxford training and will be joining the work in Northern Ireland and Cairo, Egypt, in September.