A wonderful educational opportunity for graduate (and senior undergraduate) students and researchers: the 2012 Summer Seminars in Conflict and Peace Studies in Olympia, Greece, featuring a group of leading scholars from around the world and organized by Yale’s Program on Order, Conflict and Violence and Greek universities.

Since the Summer of 2000, Olympia has been hosting with growing success, an annual, international graduate summer program in comparative politics and international relations. Thanks to the collaboration of Greek Universities with Yale’s University’s Program on Order, Conflict and Violence, the hospitality of the city of Ancient Olympia and the generosity of Greek foundations, the Olympia Summer Seminars bring together every year a highly diverse and talented group of graduate students, professionals and professors from more than 30 countries from around the world. The purpose of the seminars is to create a forum for high quality academic work in the unique setting of Olympia and to provide opportunities for the creation and the consolidation of scholarly networks of cooperation. For more information on the seminars, please visit our website www.olympiaseminars.org .

The Olympia Summer Seminars are organized by the Navarino Network, a public policy initiative, based inThessaloniki, with the support of numerous universities and foundations, including Yale University, the Institute ofInternational Relations at Panteion University of Athens and several European Research Consortia, i.e. Microcon in 2008 and 2010 and TAMNEAC in 2012. The seminars have been generously sponsored by the A.G. Leventis Foundation and in the past by the National Bank of Greece and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece.