Our Work

Dialogues

• Public Events

  The ICRS Public Events series brings researchers to the Korbel and broader University of Denver and local communities through presentations of research and research published scholarly work. ICRS hosts public panels and conducts an annual speaker series. ICRS in 2021 will launch a Colorado event series with speakers on its areas of specialization.

• Research Dialogues

  ICRS problem-oriented Research Dialogues are a signature feature of its dialogue activities: around a central problem, concern or theme, ICRS brings together top expertise for an intensive, research-driven, focused analysis together with a mapping of solutions and processes to achieve the solutions. Its inaugural event in 2021, “Consequences of COVID: A Research Dialogue,” features analysis of the consequences of the COVID pandemic for peace, democracy and governance, and development, and presents research that evaluates these consequences and policy options to respond to them.

• Community Forums

  For the Denver community, ICRS organizes small-group Community Forums that allow community members to better understand and explore the dynamics of societies and contexts in ICRS regions and to engage in participatory approaches to solutions and to the improvement of local interactions with these regions.  Community Forums on Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Middle East focus on global-local connections to these regions as experienced in Denver and in Colorado.

Advanced Education and Training

ICRS provides Advanced Education and Training, drawing on the teaching and learning competencies of its affiliate faculty and its research and dialogue-based knowledge specialization on its core themes. ICRS will develop two areas of education and training.

• As a core education and training activity, ICRS will develop in AY 2020-2021 an advanced education program for a mix of participants from the Korbel School graduate programs and a recruited set of global South young professionals on advanced assessment methods in peace, democracy and governance, and sustainable development. The education program features an intensive two-term preparatory course and a two-week summertime in-residence experience at the Korbel School. Participants in the program gain advanced quantitative and qualitative skills for assessment methods in comparative, intra-regional and cross-regional analysis for use in international organization, development cooperation and global country-level risk analysis.
   
• In 2020-2021, ICRS is working toward the creation of a Comparative and Regional Studies Certificate as part of the Korbel School graduate programs, reviewing and organizing the existing curriculum in concert with the Curriculum Planning Committee to allow for an area-studies specialization certificate for Korbel graduate-school programs and the broader University of Denver graduate-student community.