SINCE THE SUMMER OF 2002, Olympia has been hosting, with growing success, an annual international graduate summer program in conflict studies. Thanks to the collaboration of Greek universities and institutions with Yale University’s Program on Order, Conflict and Violence and the hospitality of the city of Ancient Olympia, the OSS bring together every year a highly diverse and talented group of graduate students, professionals, and professors from more than 20 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 consolidation of scholarly networks of cooperation.

The 2010 program will offer two options. The first course (Cycle A) runs from July 4th until July 18th, 2010 and the second (Cycle B) from July 11th until July 18th, 2010. The application is competitive. Fees cover only part of the total cost of the program since OSS is generously supported by several sponsors. A number of scholarships are offered on the basis of merit and need. Participants have to choose one or the other course.

The faculty for the 2010 Conflict and Identity seminar (Cycle A) includes:

• Fotini Christia (Ph.D. Harvard), Assistant Professor of political science, MIT
• Ivan Ermakoff (Ph.D. Chicago), Associate Professor of sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Stathis Kalyvas (Ph.D. Chicago), Arnold Wolfers Professor of political science, Yale University; director of the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence at Yale
• Dimitris Keridis (Ph.D. Tufts), Associate Professor of international relations, University of Macedonia
• Ashutosh Varshney (Ph.D. Harvard), Professor of political science, Brown University

The faculty for the 2010 Advanced Research Methods seminar (Cycle B) includes:

• Richard Akresh (Ph.D. Yale), Assistant Professor in Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

• Ana Maria Ibáñez (Ph.D. Maryland), Associate Professor of Economics and Research Director of the Economics Department, University of Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
• Stathis Kalyvas (Ph.D. Chicago), Arnold Wolfers Professor of political science, Yale University; director of the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence at Yale
• Teodora Karamelska, (Ph.D. Sofia), Researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Jeremy Seekings (Ph.D. Oxford), Professor of Political Studies and Sociology, Center for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, South Africa and Visiting Professor at Yale University
• Philip Verwimp (Ph.D. Leuven), Associate Professor and holder of the Marie and Alain Philippson Chair in Sustainable Human Development, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Belgium and University of Antwerp.