Economic crises, cultural differences, fresh water shortages and resource depletion, climate change, ethnic strife, and the often unhealthy forms of conflict that come with these realities demand more peaceful, cooperative, and creative decision making in an interdependent world.
The Center for the Study of Conflict, Collaboration and Creative Governance (3CG), housed in the Department of Communication, was formed in response to this need. 3CG strives to bring to light, engage with, and promote dialogue and exchange around new governance structures, collaborative and effective decision making processes, and advanced communication concepts and practices that help people develop creative, just, and mutually beneficial choices.
Drawing on several department, university, and community programs, 3CG:
- supports and enhances interdisciplinary projects that focus on issues of conflict, methods for collaboration, and new forms of creative governance;
- works to develop students as citizens and professionals with the competencies to operate successfully in a changing and increasingly diverse, interdependent, and tension-filled world;
- maintains an internationally influential conflict research and intervention database; and
- connects both students and faculty with external groups and projects working on issues of conflict, collaboration, and governance.