Education
Northwestern University
B.A., Political Science & History
2003The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University
M.A., International Relations, Conflict Management
2007Podcasts
41:1337: What Conflict Management & Peacebuilding Is All About With Joe Bubman, Mercy Corps [Main T4C Episode]
Joe Bubman is the Technical Lead for Integrating Approaches in Complex Crises* at one of the world’s largest humanitarian and development NGOs, Mercy Corps. Previously, Joe served as Acting Director of Peace and Conflict and as a Senior Peace and Conflict Advisor where he supported the development and implementation of..
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“Public speaking is incredibly important, the success of our negotiation workshops, where you’re communicating a tool or a concept or a framework, it depends on your ability to connect with participants.”
Best Career Advice
“I think that what has served me well is having a significant amount of knowledge on an important subject and one that is not an area that everyone has developed expertise in.”
Career Challenge
“I almost wanted to postpone making that decision [of what to do after college] because I wasn’t sure. And there were no kind of clear opportunities that had emerged. So I was weighing a couple of opportunities for things I could do that summer. One was the fellowship around Auschwitz in Poland that was supporting Holocaust education. And the second was this opportunity to participate in a symposium at the Hague on international common resolution and mediation. And that, to me, felt more forward looking…It certainly increased my interest in doing conflict resolution as a career.”
Skills
Negotiation, Conflict Management, Mediation, Entrepreneurship, Startups, Training, Workshop Facilitation
Professional Interests
Adam Grant, Northwestern University, The Johns Hopkins University, Chicago Public Schools, Network for Landscape Conservation,
Conflict transformation, peacebuilding and security (CoPeSe), Civic Engagement and Dialogue Practitioners, The Johns Hopkins University – Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
