Faculty Updates

Kevin Avruch

Kevin Avruch continues as co-principal investigator on the Walsh Visa Program for Northern Ireland and the six border counties of the Republic of Ireland, and as a member of ICAR’s Zones of Peace research team. His recent publications include “Type I and Type II Errors in Culturally Sensitive Conflict Resolution Practice,” in the Conflict Resolution Quarterly 20(3):351-371; and the chapter on “Culture” for the new ICAR textbook, Human Conflict: From Analysis to Intervention. His article, “Culture and Negotiation Pedagogy,” originally published in the Negotiation Journal 16(4) was reprinted in the collection Understanding Negotiation, edited by M.L. Nelken, aimed primarily at students of law. The new online edition of the Human Relations Area Files, the eHRAF Collection of Ethnography, published his contribution, “Cultural Summary: Israelis,” in 2003. A review of Social Identity, Intergroup Conflict, and Conflict Reduction (R. Ashmore et al.) was published in Contemporary Sociology. The Middle East Journal published his review of Marc Gopin’s Holy War, Holy Peace.

Avruch presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Washington D.C. chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution, “Integrating Ideas of Culture, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism into Thinking about ADR.” In addition, he was invited to lecture to students and faculty at the Sabanci University’s program in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, in Istanbul, Turkey. The Harvard Negotiation Law Review, the Program on Negotiation, and the Consortium on Global Leadership invited him to speak and moderate a panel on “Overcoming Cultural Barriers in International Negotiations: Success in Diplomacy and International Transactions.” The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, in Geneva, invited him to speak at its Annual Meeting of the Humanitarian Negotiators’ Network, in Talloires, France, on the topic, “Culture as Context, Culture as Communication: Considerations for Humanitarian Negotiators.”

Sandra Cheldelin

Last academic year and through the summer Sandra Cheldelin has been busy with several writing and consulting projects in addition to coordinating five externally funded practice projects (some highlighted in this issue).

The ICAR textbook Conflict: from Analysis to Intervention (co-edited with Dan Druckman and Larissa Fast) is now in print. She has authored chapters on mediation and arbitration, and—with Terrence Lyons— facilitation and consultation. (It is available through Continuum Press or on amazon.com with proceeds to support ICAR graduate students.) Her book Conflict Resolution (co-authored with Ann Lucas) has been submitted to Jossey Bass publishers and should be in print late fall or early winter. It is part of a series for academic administrators in higher education. Cheldelin was also highlighted in the faculty section of the Chronicle for Higher Education “Academic Therapists” (May 21, 2003) discussing the increased need for and use of conflict resolvers in the academy. She has presented her work at the annual meetings of the American Association for Higher Education “Conflict Analysis and Resolution in Higher Education” and the Dispute Resolution section of the American Bar Association “Lessons Learned “Exporting Mediation: Confessing Sins and Exploring Best Practices.”

Along with writing and consulting, Cheldelin is principal or co-principal investigator on several projects. Two are collaborative partnerships—funded by the Department of State—with Tbilisi State and National Taurida Vernadsky Universities to establish conflict resolution academic programs and capabilities in the Republic of Georgia and Ukraine, respectively. Three other projects are working in the community to address post 9.11 issues, funded by the Community Resilience Projects of Fairfax and Loudoun Counties (with FEMA grants), and the Community Relations department of the Freddie Mac Corporation.

She continues to teach Conflict in Organizations and has designed a new course for the fall on Gender and Conflict.

Daniel Druckman

Daniel Druckman had a busy year. In addition to the long-awaited co-edited ICAR book entitled Conflict, he had articles in several Journals, including International Negotiation and the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and book chapters. He was also appointed an Associate Editor of the Journal Group Decision and Negotiation. The highlight of the year, however, was the lifetime achievement award that he received in June from the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) at the annual meeting in Melbourne, Australia. Icing on this cake was provided by another IACM award for the outstanding article of 2001 (“Turning Points in International Negotiation,” in the Journal of Conflict Resolution). He presented the keynote address at the meeting (to appear in the International Journal of Conflict Management) as well as participated on three panels – one honoring the work of John Burton, another on his e mediation research, and a third on organizational inertia.

Following this meeting, he and his wife traveled around the world, stopping in Istanbul where he delivered another keynote address to the Group Decision and Negotiation section of EURO/INFORMS. Later in the summer he participated as a member of a senior faculty panel that conducted a research incubator for junior faculty at the Academy for Management meeting in Seattle. In the Fall he participated (with Sara Cobb) in the PON conference on Critical Moments in Negotiation. (The papers will appear in 2004 in the Negotiation Journal.) The year will be capped by presentations at the first Biennial Conference on Negotiation held in Europe (Paris) in December A busy year indeed which also included progress on his textbook, “Doing Research: Methods of Inquiry in Conflict Analysis,” to be published by Sage and several Lynch chair projects. He looks forward to carrying this momentum into 2004.

Mark Goodale

Mark Goodale has been very busy during his first semester at ICAR. He worked at developing research initiatives in Iraq, Eastern Europe, Norway, and here in Fairfax County. He is writing two books: The Dilemma of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism, and Toward a Critical Anthropology of Human Rights. He chaired a session at the 2003 American Anthropological Association meetings in Chicago entitled “Emerging Modalities of Globalizing Legal Forms.” He taught the first human rights course in recent years at ICAR, “Human Rights Theory and Practice in Comparative Perspective.” And he made the final preparations for his spring leave of absence as a Fulbright Scholar to Romania on a project entitled “Human Rights, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Romania,” a research and teaching grant that will lead to policy recommendations to the Romanian government on ways to reform legal and political institutions in preparation for accession to the European Union in 2007.

Marc Gopin

As director of the newly created Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, Marc planned and helped coordinate an inaugural reception on the main campus that was widely attended, with some guests coming from as far away as Chicago. Marc just finished work on a book manuscript entitled Healing the Heart of Conflict, to be published next year by Rodale Press. Gopin engaged a group of American Jews and Arabs in Chicago on peace making, and met with significant Arab leaders. He worked together with Reverend John Henderson on collaborative activities that would influence the evangelical community regarding peace in the Middle East, and appeared with him on an evangelical cable network, Lessee Productions in South Bend, Indiana, that went to millions of households in the Middle East. Gopin also continues collaborative planning with Chris Seiple, newly appointed President of the Institute for Global Engagement, an evangelical think tank. He then traveled to the Nato Defense College in Rome and lectured on religion, conflict, terrorism, and conflict resolution alternatives. Marc was interviewed for a public television film being produced by Jerry Krell, on religion and peacemaking, and is engaged in discussions on possible further collaborations. Marc continued developing relationships with select members of Congress on contributions of religion to ameliorating the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

He also lectured at Georgetown University, American University, and the Washington College of Law. Gopin’s Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution cosponsored with Facing History and Ourselves a ten day global internet conference on the subject of religion, conflict, peace and global citizenship in the future. As board member of A Different Future, an interfaith alliance for peace in the Middle East, Gopin worked on the methods of engagement with Washington regarding the road map for peace in Israel and Palestine. Gopin has also engaged in several planning sessions with Initiatives of Change on planned interfaith dialogue encounters in Morroco and Switzerland. In addition, he has been engaged with and planning together with the Tannenbaum Center a dialogue in Amman. Gopin continues to advise and support with new approaches key religious peace activists in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, conservatives as well as progressives, both at the grassroots level and those who are engaged with the political leadership. Gopin delivered a keynote lecture to approximately 400 mediators in Georgia, and responded to a panel at the American Academy of Religon in Atlanta devoted to his recent book, Holy War, as well as to Charles Kimball’s book. He was interviewed by Bloomberg News. A chapter of his appeared in the newly published The Future of Peace in the Twenty-First Century.

Howon Jeong

Howon Jeong is completing his newest book Peace Building: Processes and Strategies to be published by Lynne Reinner. He contributed an article on conflict in divided societies,’ to Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (UNESCO Social Science Series). His chapters on third party roles in peace building and structural sources of conflict were included in the ICAR textbook. He chaired a panel on human security and made a presentation on application of human security to peace building at the International Studies Association Convention last year. As part of a Human Security Project, he also facilitated discussion at a meeting held at Columbia University last June. He has been actively engaged in editorial activities as a chief editor of International Journal of Peace Studies sponsored by the International Peace Research Association. He was also occasionally involved in editorial advisory functions as a senior consulting editor for Peace and Conflict Studies journal. He was also a consultant for the European Commission’s Research Programme on ‘Citizens and Governance in the Knowledge Based Society’.

Linda Johnston

Linda M. Johnston will be remaining at ICAR as a Visiting Professor for the next two years. She is the Field Program Coordinator of the Applied Practice and Theory Program. Last academic year, four APT teams successfully completed their year-long projects in the field: Fairfax Library Dialogue Group, National Mediation Board, Fairfax Schools, and the Ukraine Research Project. Linda took five of her students to Ukraine with her in March. This year promises the same coordination between the ICAR and the larger community in terms of the proposed fieldwork. Johnston continues to teach Conceptions of Practice, Third Party Roles, and Community Conflict, in addition to the APT classes.

Linda is on the Executive Board of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA). As part of her work with IPRA, Linda serves on the Grants Committee, which dispenses small grants for field-based Peace Research, and she administers the Senesh Fellowship which is a Fellowship for women in the third world who wish to pursue graduate education in Peace-related work or Conflict Resolution.

Johnston presented papers at two conferences this past year. She presented a paper on “Justice, Reconciliation, and Revenge” at the Network of Communities for Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution (NCPCR) in Atlanta, Georgia; and “The Role of the University Towards the Community: Students’ Field Placement in Conflict Settings” at the World Mediation Forum in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Terrence Lyons

Terrence Lyons is continuing his research on the relationships between democratization and conflict resolution, with a particular emphasis on the processes of post-conflict peacebuilding following civil wars. Recent publications on this theme include “The Role of Postsettlement Elections” in Stephen John Stedman, Elizabeth Cousens, and Donald Rothchild, eds., Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2002) and “Elections to End Conflict: War Termination, Democratization, and International Policy,” in Edward R. McMahon and Thomas Sinclair, eds., Democratic Institution Performance: Research and Policy Perspectives (Westport, Conn.: Praeger/Greenwood, 2002).

He is also developing a proposal to begin researching the roles played by diaspora groups in conflict and conflict resolution. He participated in a workshop on “Globalization, Territoriality, and Conflict,” organized by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies of the University of California, San Diego, where he presented some preliminary ideas on how diaspora groups sometimes promote conflict resolution while other times can escalate conflicts and make them more protracted. He will participate in a second workshop in San Diego in late 2003 to present a more fully developed research paper on globalization, diasporas, and conflict resolution. Lyons continues his involvement with the ICAR Africa Working Group and is working with Chris Mitchell and other ICAR graduate students to finalize a report on the Ethiopian Extended Dialogue. In 2003 he traveled to Khartoum and southern Sudan to assess the status of the peace process that is trying to end that protracted civil war.

Chris Mitchell

While on a field trip to Colombia in connection with ICAR’s “Local Zones of Peace in Colombia” Project, Dr Chris Mitchell chaired and was the main speaker in a “Catedra Abierta” [Open Space - for Discussion of Local Problems]. The Catedra took place in the municipio of RioNegro, 25 kilometres from Medellin in Antioquia. It was hosted by the Instituto Popular de Capitacion, the Corporacion Corazonverde and the municipios of RioNegro and Marinilla.

The focus of discussion was on “The Treatment of Conflict in the Context of Open War”, and what local people might be able to do to mitigate some of the effects of the widespread fighting that has resulted from the breakdown of the Colombian peace process in February 2002. This has left local populations vulnerable to attack from many quarters. The discussion was lively, ran over time and covered a wide range of topics and questions, from the morality of proposed talks with paramilitary forces to the reasons for the failure of the Pastrana peace process.

Agnieszka Paczynska

Agnieszka Paczynska continues to develop the Globalization and Conflict initiative. She is revising a manuscript that analyzes the response of labor groups to economic restructuring programs and their contentious interaction with governments implementing structural adjustment policies. The manuscript focuses primarily on the experiences of Egypt, Poland, Mexico and the Czech Republic. She has recently finished a chapter on union struggles in Cairo after ten years of economic liberalization which will appear in an edited volume and has completed an article that explores the impact of economic reforms on political and civic participation in Poland. She is beginning a new project that explores the challenges and opportunities that workers have encountered in an era of both growing economic integration and differentiation. In particular, it will explore how labor has sought to fashion transnational linkages and how these newly emerging patterns of international networking influence the emergence and/or resolution of conflicts at the state level.

Last year, she was a participant in the Workshop on Contentious Politics at the University of Maryland where she presented her paper entitled “Contesting Labor Law in Egypt” and also served as a discussant for a number of papers. In September 2002 she presented a paper entitled “Economic Reforms and Political Participation in Poland,” at the American Political Science Association meeting and “Middle East Political Science –Where To?” at the November 2002 meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. During summer of 2003 she traveled to Poland to observe the referendum on accession to European Union and to conduct research for a paper she will be presenting in November 2003 at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies on how trade unions have sought to ensure their representation during the accession negotiations. She is also completing a paper on globalization and conflict that she will present at the October ICAR conference.

She is also continuing to develop new courses on globalization. Last spring semester she taught the first of these new courses, “Globalization and Social Movements.” During the 2003- 04 academic year she will be teaching two new courses at ICAR, “Globalization and International Conflict,” and “Globalization and Domestic Conflict.” In addition she developed a new undergraduate course, “Globalization, Peace and Conflict,” which she will be teaching in the spring. This course is part of the new Global Affairs major.

Richard Rubenstein

Prof. Rich Rubenstein’s new book, Aristotle’s Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages, was published in October by Harcourt Books. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly calls it a “dazzling historical narrative,” remarking that “Rubenstein’s lively prose, his lucid insights, and his crystal-clear historical analyses make this a first-rate study in the history of ideas.” Rich addressed the Washington, D.C. chapter of Phi Beta Kappa on the subject of the book in June 2003, and lectured on it in the fall in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Dayton, and DC. In November, Rich appeared on National Public Radio’s Kojo Nnamde show to discuss the lessons that the story teaches for the resolution of contemporary religious conflicts. The book is illustrated by ICAR masters student and practicing artist David Toohey. It has been made a featured offering of the History Book Club and Quality Book Club, and arrangements have been made to publish it in Greece, the Netherlands, Brazil, and Korea.

Since last March, Rich has also spoken and written at length about the war in Iraq, the American Empire, and conflict resolving alternatives to current policies based on military force. In April 2003, he lectured on “The New American Empire and Conflict Resolution” at the Free University of Berlin, and in July, he addressed the Jack Kent Cooke Fellows of Georgetown University on the same subject. His op-ed article advocating the withdrawal of U.S. forces and advocating peaceful facilitation of intra-Iraqi conflicts was published in USA Today on August 21, and he appeared on several radio and television talk shows to discuss the issues further. During the fall term, he was interviewed by the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper, spoke to the Soka Gakkai Institute of Northern Virginia, appeared on Fox Cable News, gave the Richard M. Pfeffer Memorial Lecture at the Progressive Action Coalition in Baltimore, and lectured at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Maryland on conflict resolution approaches to global peacemaking. He also presented a Brown Bag seminar at ICAR on “Religion and Empire.”

Rich’s work on terrorism continued with the publication of “The Psycho- Political Causes of Terrorism” in The New Global Terrorism: Characteristics, Causes, Controls, edited by Charles W. Kegley, Jr. (Prentice-Hall, 2003). His current scholarly work includes a major article on “Current Research on Religion and Conflict” for the forthcoming ICAR conference, and the preparation of a Transatlantic Conference on News Media Coverage of Violent Conflicts: European and American Perspectives, now being planned for March 2004 at the European Parliament in Brussels. Rich will be on sabbatical leave in spring term 2004 working on a new book on the prophetic tradition and conflict resolution.

Dennis Sandole

Dr. Dennis Sandole has been very active in writing and presenting on the issues of conflict resolution. In February 2003, Dr. Sandole attended the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA) in Portland, Oregon, where he presented, “Complexity and Conflict Resolution” at the Panel on “Global Complexity: Agent-Based Models in Global and International Studies.” Dr. Sandole also acted as a discussant for the Panel on “International Conflict Resolution in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities Post- September 11.”

In April 2003, Dr. Sandole attended the Faculty and Community Development Workshop on “Educating for Peace in Conflict- Ridden Societies,” sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), at the Center for Conflict Management, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia. Dr. Sandole presented on “Conflict and Education— The Linkages.”

During May 16-19, 2003, Dr. Sandole presented “Combating Crime in South East Europe: An Integrated, Co-ordinated, Multi-Level Approach,” at the 4th Reichenau Workshop of the Partnership for Peace (PfP) Consortium Study Group on Regional Stability in South East Europe, at Reichenau, Austria.

Dr. Sandole traveled to Berlin in July 2003, as a speaker for the U.S. State Department, where he met with foreign policy staffers of the German “Greens” Party and the Social Democratic Party. Dr. Sandole discussed the war in Iraq and its implications for the Middle East peace process and global war on terrorism. Also in July, Dr. Sandole met with senior research associates of the “Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik” (SWP)—Germany’s leading thinktank for advising the Federal Government—where he discussed the war in Iraq and its implications for the Middle East peace process and global war on terrorism.

July was a very busy month for Dr. Sandole. On July 14 he presented “After Saddam: Scenarios for the Middle East and the War on Global Terrorism,” at the “Hanns-Seidel- Stiftung”, in Munich, Germany—the main thinktank for Bavaria’s Christian Socialist Party. On July 15, Dr. Sandole presented “Conflict Resolution and the New Terrorism” at the German- American Institute in Heidelberg, Germany. Dr. Sandole met on July 16, with senior research associates and invited guests of the Bonn International Conversion Center (BICC) in Bonn, Germany, where he discussed conceptual approaches to understanding and dealing with the new terrorism. On July 17, Dr. Sandole presented “The Role of the U.S. in the Post-Saddam World” for faculty and students of the Department of Political Science, University of Cologne, in Cologne, Germany.

Dr. Sandole conducted a 2-day Workshop on “Theory and Practice in Conflict Resolution: Implications for the Global War on Terror,” in August 2003, at the premier university-based peace and conflict studies program in Southeast Asia: the Research and Education for Peace (REP) Unit of the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang, Malaysia (where Dr. Sandole has sent 4 ICAR interns in recent years). Also in August 27-29, 2003, Dr. Sandole attended and participated in the USIP Workshop on “Peace Education in Indonesia,” at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM), in Manila, Philippines, where he presented on “Complexity and Conflict.”

Dr. Sandole has been granted a Fulbright Award as Visiting Professor of International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, Austria where, during March-June 2004, he will teach graduate courses in “War, Violence, and Conflict Resolution”, “Peacebuilding”, and “Simulation Workshop on Negotiation and Mediation in Complex Conflicts.”

Dr. Sandole has published a number of times in 2003, to include “The Nature of Warfare in the 21st Century”, in “Conflict Resolution”, in The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), “Violent Ethnocentrism and Conflict Intractability: Puzzles and Challenges for 3rd Party Intervenors” in Peace and Conflict Studies, “Combating Crime in Southeastern Europe: An Integrated, Coordinated, Multi-Level Approach”, in Crushing Crime in South East Europe: A Struggle of Domestic, Regional and European Dimensions, “Validating Simulation-based Models of Conflict” in Simulation & Gaming, and “Typology.” in Conflict: From Analysis to Intervention.

Dr. Sandole also contributes frequently to electronic and print media on the relevance of conflict resolution theory and practice to developments across the world, his most recent being a letter to the editor published in The Washington Post Magazine on August 10, 2003.

Carlos Sluzki

Prof. Carlos E. Sluzki has just been honored as a Fellow at the American College of Psychiatrists and at the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, and as a Distinguished Fellow at the American Psychiatric ssociation. His most recent publications include “Families Imploding: The Loosening of the social fabric and the decline of social responsibility at the dawn of the 21st. Century.” J. Family Psychotherapy, 14 (1), 2003; “Humiliation, social crisis, and social networks: A Conversation” Sistemas Familiares (in Spanish), 2003; “The process toward reconciliation.” Chapter in A. Chayes and M. Minow, Eds.: Imagine Coexistence: Restoring Humanity after Violent Ethnic Conflict. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2003; and “Censorship Looming”, an Editorial at the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry , 73(2) , 2003. He was recently in Kosovo as member of the core team of the Kosovar Family Professional Education Collaborative Project, carried out conjointly by the University of Kosovo, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the American Family Therapy Academy, and in Italy, where he conducted conferences and workshops.

Wallace Warfield

Professor Wallace Warfield was active in three areas over the summer. In the teaching realm, Warfield, along with ABD doctoral student, Mara Schoeny, taught an experiential learning course, “Conflict Resolution Ethics: Justice, Decision-making, and Professionalism” for concluding undergraduate students under the auspices of New Century College.

Professor Warfield contributed an article for the Missouri Journal on Dispute Resolution, that will be one of several devoted to a critical examination of whether one or a corpus of conflict resolution theory is generalizable across conflict domains, or if the specificity of domains defies such generalization. A second article, “Racial and Gender Profiling In Conflict Intervention: Threat or Opportunity?”, co-authored with Susan Dearborn, a Seattle-based mediator, parts the veil surrounding the little-discussed issue of profiling in mediation. The article will appear in the Association for Conflict Resolution magazine early this fall. Professor Warfield submitted two research proposals that will focus on local conflict issues. One will have an emphasis on restorative justice, examining the broader community sociology embracing crime and victim-offender reconciliation.

If funded, Warfield will be working with Phyllis Turner Lawrence, a lawyer and authority on restorative justice and Heather Scofield, concluding ICAR Masters student, who has also worked in this area. A second proposal comes at the request of the Arlington County Fire Department, seeking assistance in designing and implementing a process that will involve residents from affected jurisdictions in dialogue and decisionmaking around the placement of new fire stations in various locations in the county. ICAR will be joined by adjunct faculty from the School for Public Policy who will design a facilities distribution/population density study. Professor Warfield continues his association with Professors Chris Mitchell and Kevin Avruch on the on-going Zones of Peace research project in Colombia.