Adam Ahmed is a Masters Student at the School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR), at George Mason University. He was admitted to the Masters International program with Peace Corps, as part of his degree. Adam was the first member of S-CAR, to participate in the Masters International program, and server in the West African nation of Mali. He served in Mali from January 2011 until April 2012, when he was evacuated due to a coup in his host country. Prior to joining the Peace Corps, Adam worked at the United States Department of Agriculture in the Foreign Agricultural Service. While in S-CAR, Adam has focused on the causes of violent conflict, with a specialized interest in relative deprivation and inequality. Adam hopes to apply his knowledge of conflict analysis and resolution, as well as his knowledge of the Middle East and Sub Saharan Africa in a job in the conflict analysis or development fields.
Katherine Bowen-Williams is currently serving in Peace Corps Mongolia as a Community Youth Development Volunteer in an eastern province capital. She works at a high school as a School Social Worker and teaches life skills to the student body in Mongolian. She has lived abroad in Uruguay and Hungary, and enjoys learning new languages, living in new cities, boxing, running, and baking for her fellow Peace Corps sitemates. Currently her biggest goal is to run a half marathon in the Gobi Desert in September.
Keith Singleton, originally from Oklahoma City, is a Master’s International student serving as a volunteer in Morocco for Peace Corps in Youth Development. He hopes to put into practice his newly acquired skills in conflict resolution as a MS student at George Mason University School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution during his tour of service with the Peace Corps. He has been placed in a town called Sebt Gzoula located in Safi province 20 minutes outside of the city of Safi in the southern part of Morocco on the coast. This means that the youth center in Sebt Gzoula has gone neglected and will be difficult to start from scratch. It is a rare opportunity that he is excited to have.
Alyssa Rosen is an educator with more than seven years of experience tutoring, teaching, and planning programming. She graduated in 2009 from the University of Chicago, where she studied Economics and African and African-American studies. She became interested in the field of conflict resolution during her AmeriCorps service, when she had the opportunity to mediate student conflicts at a middle school in Washington D.C. Alyssa is a full-time Masters International student at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason, is working part time as a teaching resident, and is going to serve with the Peace Corps in Botswana in August 2013. Alyssa currently resides in Washington D.C. and looks forward to many years of learning and growing within and beyond the S-CAR community
Kate O’Hare is a Master’s candidate at George Mason University studying Conflict Analysis and Resolution. She came to S-CAR with an interest in genocide prevention and early warning systems. As chair of the Gender and Conflict Working Group and through the Center for the Study of Gender and Conflict, Kate has contributed to the discussion and research around gender-based violence as an early warning side of genocide. Kate has also worked as a Special Exhibitions Researcher at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and as a Coordinator for the art-activist organization, One Million Bones. Before the Peace Corps, Kate traveled to Cambodia and Indonesia with S-CAR and spent extensive time traveling and researching in East and Central Europe during her undergraduate career at Temple University. She hopes that her on the ground experience in Cameroon with the Peace Corps will allow her to see and implement the connections between theory and practice that S-CAR has provided the foundation for and be the beginning of her career as a conflict resolution practitioner.