26th Annual Lynch Lecture: John Paul Lederach

John Paul Lederach, a pioneer in the field of peace building and conflict resolution, will be hosted by S-CAR for the 26th Annual Lynch Lecture.  The Lynch Lecture Series began with friends of the School and prominent Virginians Edwin and Helen Lynch, who made several substantial gifts to George Mason University, including a beautiful piece of property on Mason Neck—Point of View—and an endowed Chair in the name of Edwin's parents, Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch.  In order to bring the idea and theory of conflict analysis and resolution to the attention of the entire University community, and in gratitude to Edwin and Helen, the School established an annual Lynch Lecture series.  Lederach who will present a his lecture titled: "Thoughts on a Penny -- Challenges to Creative Conflict in the Public Square,” is well known at S-CAR for such books as Building Peace:  Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies,  The Little Book of Conflict Transformation, and The Moral Imagination:  The Art and Soul of Building Peace. He is Professor of Practice for International Peacebuilding with the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and works as a practitioner-scholar, providing facilitation, mediation and training/education, with extensive experience at national and community levels in North and Latin America,  Africa, and Southeast and Central Asia.  S-CAR looks forward to welcoming John Paul Lederach on November 19th to discuss “A wandering, perhaps poetic exploration of contemporary challenges and deficits facing the wider fields of conflict transformation and peacebuilding and how these correspond to the challenges of the ever more divided public square and dialogue-dis-abled America.” We look forward to having you there as well. More information and to RSVP for this event can be found at: http://scar.gmu.edu/event/annual-lynch-lecture-john-paul-lederach