War & Peace Series | 2025 Symposium
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 Memory and Peacebuilding, Duty of Care, Trauma-Sensitivity, and Interview Training for Fieldwork
Summer 2025 Workshop Symposium
(July week TBA)
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 linked to the psychology of memory and peacebuilding, global health, trauma-sensitivity, and challenges of women in conflict journalism . 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. One panel will focus specifically on Ghana and Israel/Palestine as preparation for the GWNP interview teams traveling later in 2025.
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 future interviewing women or editing narratives for the Global Women’s Narratives Project.
The daily schedule in Oxford is generally 9:00 am to 3:30 pm, Monday through Friday, with one evening session and one afternoon free to tour Oxford. Previous schedules are available on the 2022, 2023, and 2024 workshop pages.
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.