This Opening Session will be moderated by Dr. Eilish Dillon, Assistant Professor and Head of the Maynooth University Department of International Development. The speakers include Dr. Peter T Coleman, Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University, Director of the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR), and Executive Director of Columbia University’s Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity, and Dr Ebun Joseph, Diversity and Race Relations Consultant, Module Coordinator and Lecturer in Black Studies at University College Dublin (UCD), Director of the Institute of Antiracism and Black Studies (IABS), Founder and Chairperson (2018-2022) African Scholars Association Ireland (AFSAI).

This will be followed by a Question & Answer session and a reflection session before breaking for lunch.