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 articles in the Journal of Dispute Resolution, Negotiation Journal and the Harvard Negotiation Law Review. He also published an occasional paper, “Integrating Ideas of Culture, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism in Conflict Resolution and ADR Practice,” for the Program on Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Sabanci University (Turkey). In addition, a paper co-written with ICAR doctoral student Zheng Wang has been accepted for publication in the journal International Negotiation.

Among his presentations this year are “Introduction to Conflict Analysis and Resolution,” which consisted of lectures given at Tbilisi State University, Georgia, in support of ICAR’s program there; “Toward an Expanded ‘Canon’ of Negotiation Theory: The Need for a New Heuristic” at the International Association for Conflict Management in Pittsburgh; and “The Dynamics of Escalation and Conflict Prevention” (invited presentation to the Department of State, Foreign Service Institute, Arlington).

Avruch serves on the editorial boards of the journals Social Justice and Journal of Political and Military Sociology and is a member of the Advisory Board for the recently established Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies program at Columbia University.

Sandra Cheldelin

For the last academic year and through the summer Sandra Cheldelin has been writing, consulting, and completing two externally funded practice projects (one highlighted in this issue).

Her book Conflict Resolution (co-authored with Ann Lucas) has been published by Jossey Bass (2004). It is part of a series for academic administrators in higher education. She is currently developing a second book for the series on avoiding legal problems (with Linda Schwartzstein, Associate Provost of GMU).

In November 2003, Cheldelin was an invited speaker at the National Conference on Current Trends in Conflict Resolution in Higher Education, presenting “Applying Conflict Resolution Skills in Higher Education Conflicts: An Interactive Application of a Case Study.” In February 2004, she was an invited luncheon speaker for the Association for Conflict Resolution DC-ACR -04 Program Series speaking on “Exporting ADR to Foreign Countries and Cultures—Lessons Learned.”

In April 2004, she presented her post 9/11 community dialogue facilitation data “Developing Dialogue Partnerships to Increase Community Resilience” at the annual meeting of the American Association for Higher Education. That month she was also an invited speaker at the 9th Annual ADR Professional Development Conference, “Healing a Community in Crisis through Multicultural Dialogues and Interfaith Collaboration”. In May 2004, she was a keynote presenter and facilitator of “Planning for the Future in a Period of Growth and Stability” for the board of trustees of Marietta College. She completed the academic year teaching with colleague Kevin Avruch at Tbilisi State University on “Gender and Conflict and Organizational Conflict.”

Cheldelin is principal investigator on several projects. Working closely with doctoral candidates, she is working on Emergent Best Practices for Collaborative Partnerships in Infrastructure Protection, a project funded by the Department of Homeland Security. She has developed two training videos: Introducing Dialogue and Dialogue in the Workplace, a project funded by the Freddie Mac Foundation.

Mark Goodale

Mark Goodale was in Romania for nine months as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bucharest. He studied Romania’s efforts to reform its institutions in anticipation of accession to the European Union in 2007, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Bucharest. During that time he gave lectures on his research in Budapest, Vienna, Oslo, Bergen, and Edinburgh. He is currently writing two books, one on Bolivia’s “Encounters with Law and Liberalism,” and the other a study of the relationship between anthropology and human rights.

He has articles forthcoming in Law and Society Review and American Anthropologist, a book chapter in a volume on Latin American anthropology, and an encyclopedia entry on “Anthropology and Law.” This year also marks the beginning of his tenure as the editor-in-chief of the journal Social Justice: Anthropology, Peace and Human Rights, which will be based in ICAR until 2008. This November, he will be chairing an invited session at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting in San Francisco entitled “Transnationalism and the Anthropology of Rights.”

Marc Gopin

Marc Gopin recently celebrated the publication of his third book, Healing the Heart of Conflict: Eight Crucial Steps to Making Peace with Yourself and Others (Rodale Press, 2004). He gave a speech in November at the National Press Club on “When American or Western Diplomacy Fails: A New Way of Looking at Healing Deep Conflicts.” Interviews with Gopin recently appeared in the Washington Diplomat, What is Enlightenment? and The Bottom Line magazines, as well as the Paris-based Arabies Trends. His chapter on “Judaism in Peacebuilding,” in Religion and Peacebuilding was published in January 2004

Gopin was an invited guest at the World Economic Forum’s Middle East Economic Summit in May 2004 at the Dead Sea in Jordan. He made a presentation on inter-religious relations at a special session of the Forum with senior representatives of Middle Eastern religions and senior correspondents of Middle Eastern media. Gopin also was one of several facilitators of a session on the Arab-Israeli conflict that included major business leaders, a U.S. congressman, and representatives of Israel and Palestine.

Gopin was a guest for a consultation of the Council of 100, a special organization within the World Economic Forum designed to address the relationship between Islamic civilization and the West, co-directed by the Saudi Ambassador to Great Britain and Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. In June 2004, Gopin lectured to Israeli and Palestinian students in Israel via a live video conference hosted by the U.S. State Department. Also in June, Gopin spent two weeks as a Scholar in Residence at Washington National Cathedral’s College of Preachers as part of an unprecedented Abrahamic residency program. The scholars were charged with plumbing the doctrinal, historical and psychological depths of Christianity, Judaism and Islam to discover sources used to justify religious violence and develop approaches to counteract them.

Gopin spent several weeks in Israel at the end of December, where he worked in cooperation with the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel (ICCI), the preeminent interfaith organization in Israel, at a closed retreat of National Zionist Israeli Rabbis together with traditional Islamic kadis from villages in Israel. Gopin presented and guided the discussion. The ICCI also sponsored a culminating public interfaith event for peace in Jerusalem, with featured speakers including Gopin, the Papal Nuncio, and a variety of sheikhs and rabbis. Also while in Israel, Gopin trained a group of American law students in cooperation with Hamline University Law School’s intensive training on Conflict Resolution from Religious Traditions.

During his stay in the Middle East, Gopin entered Syria from Jordan with permission of the Syrian Ministry of Information and Ministry of Expatriates. He spoke on “A Culture of Peace” in the Assad national library in Damascus, with about 300 people in attendance. Gopin’s stay in Syria included an interview on National television and radio, and five private dinners over the course of eight days. He also discussed the Minister of Higher Education, the possibility of his returning to encourage the development of programs on conflict resolution.

In January 2005 Gopin attended the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland. There, he moderated a diplomacy session of the forum on “Blessed are the (Non-Traditional) Peacemakers.” The discussion covered alternative forms of diplomacy and reconciliation and included a diverse group of panelists.

Susan Hirsch

Susan F. Hirsch joins the ICAR faculty as Associate Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution and Anthropology and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. Trained in legal anthropology, she focuses on conflict and culture, gender relations, discourse analysis, and the legal systems of East Africa. Her book, Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court, is an ethnography of how gender relations are negotiated through marital disputes heard in Kenyan Islamic courts. Fluent in the Swahili language, she has conducted extensive fieldwork in Kenya and Tanzania since 1985, supported by a Fulbright Fellowship, the National Science Foundation, Wesleyan University, and Duke University, and she has held residential fellowships at the National Humanities Center, the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, the American Bar Foundation, and Northwestern University’s Law and Social Science Program.

Her academic publications include Contested States: Law, Hegemony, and Resistance (co-edited with Mindie Lazarus-Black; Routledge, 1994) and numerous articles on law reform, gender and conflict, reflexive and participatory research, and language in the disputing process, which have appeared in edited volumes and journals such as Law and Social Inquiry and Africa Today. She is currently on the editorial board of the American Ethnologist. Active in several professional associations, she served as a trustee of the Law and Society Association and is currently on the Planning Committee for its 2005 annual meeting to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Susan is completing a book about the 1998 East African Embassy bombings and the subsequent trial of four defendants. She and her husband Abdulrahman Abdullah were running an errand at the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, when the bombings occurred, and he was killed. As a bombing victim, she began attending the embassy bombings trial in New York City in January, 2001, and over the next six months came to study it as a legal anthropologist. Her reflexive ethnography of the experience, which bears the influence of the September 11 attacks and their aftermath, will be published by Princeton University Press. Among the issues highlighted in the volume are the difficulties faced by a victim who opposes the death penalty when participating in a capital trial. Susan has spoken widely about terror trials, the U.S. death penalty, the role of victims in conflict resolution, and the war on terror.

In coming months, Susan will pursue research on several topics including controversies over Islamic law in the post-9/11 era, the effects of the war on terror on Muslim minority communities in East Africa and other contexts, and also on the possibilities for restorative justice as a response to terrorist acts.

Ho-Won Jeong

Dr. Ho-Won Jeong has published three books as well as offered workshops and lectures in the 2004-05 academic year. His book Peace Building: Process and Strategy, published by Lynne Rienner, encompasses various dimensions of rebuilding post-conflict societies. His other book Globalization and the Environment, to be released by Chelsea Publishing includes chapters on the impact of environmental degradation on human life and conflict, sustainable development, and actions needed to reverse the current trend of accelerating ecological deterioration.

With the completion of a human security project (based on partnerships between American and Japanese scholars), Dr. Jeong has published a book entitled Conflict and Human Security: A Search for New Approaches to Peace-Building. The book was co-edited with his Japanese colleague affiliated with the Institute for Peace Science, Hiroshima University. Dr. Jeong has completed two articles on peace building and peacekeeping for Encyclopedia of Globalization and has also been revising articles submitted earlier to Encyclopedia of a Developing World to be published by Routledge. The articles cover a diverse range of topics from rainforest destruction, wildlife preservation, and international peacekeeping to international relations in East Asia. His co-authored article with ICAR student Eleftherios Michael, “Security, Defense, and Development in the Current Age” was published in the Handbook of Development Policy Studies, edited by Gedeon M. Mudacumura and M. Shamsul Haque (Marcel Dekker, Inc.) in 2004.

In July 2004, Dr. Jeong was invited to offer lectures on social conflicts and public policy disputes by the South Korean government’s Presidential Commission on Sustainable Development. He also offered lectures on peace building and conflict resolution at training workshops organized by Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding under auspices of UNESCO. In his capacity as the senior editor, he has been responsible for managing the editorial processes of the International Journal of Peace Studies. Representing the research themes of the International Peace Research Association, the journal’s 2004 issues covered such topics as conflict resolution and globalization, environmental conflict and social movements, narratives of conflict transformation: Islam and the West, international conflict analysis, politics of fear and identity submitted by leading scholars in the field.

Linda M. Johnston

Linda M. Johnston was elected this year to the Executive Council on the International Peace Research Association (IPRA). She already serves on the Executive Committee of the IPRA Foundation and runs the Senesh Fellowship program. At this year’s conference in Sopron, Hungary, she and Channa Threat (ICAR MS graduate) presented research the APT team had done in Ukraine.

Linda presented at several other conferences this year: the Summer Institute in the Republic of Georgia, the National Conference on Current Trends in Conflict Resolution in Higher Education, the Community Health Workers Conference at GMU, and the Colloquium on Peace Services at University of Mary Washington. She also was awarded a year-long Fellowship for a research project in Egypt. Linda published a chapter on narrative analysis in Dan Druckman’s new research methods text.

Karina Korostelina

From the last academic year and through this summer Karina Korostelina has been writing and completing two externally funded research projects. “The Multiethnic State-Building Dilemma: National and Ethnic Minorities’ Identities in the Crimea“ was published in National Identities (2003) and “The Impact of National Identity on Conflict Behaviour: Comparative Analysis of Two Ethnic Minorities in Crimea“ was published in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology (2004). She is currently developing a book (in collaboration with the Daniel Rothbart) and several papers for journals and books.

In November 2003, Korostelina made a presentation at the United States Institute of Peace as a part of Fulbright New Century Scholars Program event. In December 2004, she conducted the Brown Bag presentation “Identity-Based Conflict: Analysis and Resolution” at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. In January 2005, she was invited to conduct a noon lecture and discussion on “National Identity Formation in Ukraine” at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center. In February 2004, she presented her research on “Formation of tolerance: multicultural setting or ethnic schools?” at the National Academy of Education meeting at the Notre Dame University. In March 2004, Korostelina presented her paper “Formation of National Identity Among Ethnic Minorities” at the ASN convention in Montreal, Canada In August, 2004 she made a presentation, “Identity Based Training of Tolerance”, at the University of Denver.

Korostelina has successfully completed her Fulbright New Century Scholars research project and is currently working on a research project supported by the National Academy of Education. She is also coordinating the Seminars on Conflicts in Eurasia (PSCE) supported by the Title VII Program at the State Department and participating in the Central Asia project at George Mason University.

Terrence Lyons

Terrence Lyons has completed a manuscript, “Demilitarization of Politics: Transforming the Institutions of War.” This study argues that processes to “demilitarize politics” during the period between the initial cease-fire and culminating postconflict elections are critical to advancing sustainable peace and democratization. This study compares seven recent cases – Angola, Cambodia, Mozambique, El Salvador, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Liberia, and Tajikistan – in which elections were an instrument of peace implementation. It argues that processes to “demilitarize politics” by transforming the institutions made powerful by the war such as insurgent groups into institutions capable of sustaining peace such as political parties are critical to successful peace implementation. Elections by themselves do not end wars but can provide the context and incentives for the critical institutional transformations necessary to sustain peace.

Lyons’s research on different aspects of peace implementation and its relationship to democratization has been published recently in several publications: “Postconflict Elections and the Process of Demilitarizing Politics: The Role of Electoral Administration,” Democratization 11:3 (June 2004); “Transforming the Institutions of War: Postconflict Elections and the Reconstruction of Failed States,” in Robert Rotberg, ed., When States Fail: Causes and Consequences (Princeton University Press, 2003); and “The Role of Postsettlement Elections,“ in Stephen John Stedman, Elizabeth Cousens, and Donald Rothchild, eds., Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements (Lynne Rienner, 2002).

The question of when diaspora groups promote constructive conflict resolution and when they tend to make conflicts more protracted has been another area of continuing research for Lyons. “Engaging Diasporas to Promote Conflict Resolution: Transforming Hawks into Doves” was presented at the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation Washington Policy Seminar, May 2004, and may be found at www.intlstudies.ucsd.edu/ IICASConferences/Lyons – Engaging_Dias.pdf. He has also presented papers on this topic at the International Studies Association meeting in Montreal, the American Political Science Association meeting in Philadelphia, and at a series of conference at the University of California, San Diego. A version entitled “Diasporas and Homeland Conflict” is under review in Globalization, Territoriality, and Conflict, that has been edited by Miles Kahler and Barbara Walter.

Lyons, along with ICAR professors Mitchell and d’Estrée and doctoral student Lulsegged Abebe published The Ethiopian Extended Dialogue: An Analytical Report 2000-2003 as ICAR Report no. 4 (2004). This report describes and analyzes an extended dialogue among Ethiopians in the Washington area facilitated by ICAR faculty and students.

Other recent publications include “Negotiation Processes and Post- Settlement Relations: Comparing Nagorno-Karabakh with Mozambique” (co-written with Daniel Druckman) in I. William Zartman, ed., Peace versus Justice (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) and “Conflict in Africa” (co-written with Stephen John Stedman) in E. Gyimah.

Christopher Mitchell

Dr. Christopher Mitchell and ICAR alumnus Davin Bremner participated in a two-week workshop at the Lebanese American University in Byblos, Lebanon during late August. The workshop for postgraduate students focused on education and training in “Conflict Prevention and Transformation” and was sponsored by the UN Department of Politics and LAU. Students mainly came from Lebanese institutes of higher education but some attended from other universities throughout the Middle East, including Syria and Greece, while those coming locally included three young people from one of the Palestinian camps in Lebanon.

From Lebanon, Dr. Mitchell went on to attend the Annual Conference of the British Conflict Research Society, held this year in an almost unbelievably peaceful Londonderry, now mercifully free from armored cars, searches and army patrol, and presenting an image of calm and some degree of prosperity. Dr. Mitchell was a keynote speaker at the conference, looking back over the history of the Society from the 1960's, and sharing the platform with Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume, now a professor at Magee College, University of Ulster.

Agnieszka Paczynska

Agnieszka Paczynska has continued to expand the work of the Globalization and Conflict initiative. Together with Peter Mandaville and Chris Mitchell, she has been developing the Globalization Dialogues initiative, which will bring together representatives from both pro- and anti-globalization communities for a series of problem-solving workshops. In September 2004, the Dialogues initiative held its first meeting with a group of international scholars who will serve as advisors to the project. Paczynska is also participating in the Globalization and Central Asia Project. The two-year project is funded by the Department of Education Title VI Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program and is exploring the ways that globalization both shapes and is shaped by the region. In Spring 2004,

Paczynska taught “Globalization, Peace and Conflict,” the first undergraduate course offered by ICAR which is part of both the new ICAR undergraduate program and the Global Affairs major. She also developed and taught as a tutorial another new globalization graduate course, “Globalization, Societies and Conflict.” Her study entitled “Globalization and Pressure to Conform: Contesting Labor Law Reform in Egypt,” was published as an ICAR Working Paper in January 2004. The paper explores the intense negotiations

Transatlantic Relations published her white paper, “Re- Creating the Helsinki Process: Lessons of East European Transition for Middle East Democratization.” The paper examined the influence of international actors and norms on the processes of political transition in Eastern Europe and explored whether these experiences can be replicated in the Middle East given the current interest of the U.S. administration in promoting political change in that region. Paczynska has written a chapter on workers’ responses to economic liberalization in Egypt which will appear later this year in an edited volume entitled Cairo Cosmopolitan: World Capital of Myths and Movements.

She wrote and presented her paper, “Globalization and Conflict,” at the ICAR Research Conference in February 2004, which surveyed the extant literature on the relationship between various aspects of globalization and the patterns of conflict and cooperation. The paper suggested fruitful avenues for future research on the relationship between globalization and conflict. In particular, it suggested that new insights could be gleaned from disaggregating both globalization and conflict and more carefully tracing the causal links between the two, as well as exploring the relationship of new transnational connections being established by non-governmental actors and their relationship to conflict processes. This study will be published as an ICAR Working Paper later this year.

In March 2004, Paczynska presented a paper entitled “Confronting Change: Trade Unions and the Transition to a Market Economy” at the International Studies Association conference in Montreal, Canada. In April, she was one of the invited speakers at the Center for Transatlantic Relations’ roundtable, “What Future for the Greater Middle East? Transatlantic Perspectives” that explored the Bush administration’s Middle East Democracy Initiative. She also presented a paper entitled “Historical Legacies and Policy Choice: Labor and Public Sector Reform” at the September 2004 meeting of American Political Science Association conference in Chicago. As in previous years, she was a participant in the Washington Area Workshop on Contentious Politics, where she has both presented her own work and served as a paper discussant.

Daniel Rothbart

Daniel Rothbart’s research centers on the intersection of philosophy and conflict analysis. He presented a paper entitled “Memory, Identity, and Conflict” at the International Studies Association Meeting, Boston, November 11, 2004, and is co-editing a volume entitled Identity, Morality, and Threat (with Karina Korostelina). He is also writing an article entitled “Good Violence/Bad Violence in the Military,” with MS student David Alpher. He recently served as evaluator of the George Mason University/Tbilisi State University (Georgia) Partnership to Prepare Conflict Resolution Specialists for Georgia, supported by the U.S. Department of State. He is currently working on a volume of success stories for the Alliance for International Conflict Prevention and Resolution.

His philosophy scholarship includes the 2003 publication of four articles and book chapters, a 2004 edited volume Modeling: Gateway to the Unknown. A Work by Rom Harré, and a forthcoming book Philosophical Instruments: Minds and Tools at Work. Two more articles will appear in scholarly volumes. He serves on editorial boards of three scholarly journals and on a committee of ethics consultants for Excelsior College, Albany, New York. Rothbart currently serves on the ICAR undergraduate committee and as of January 1, is internship director for the master’s program.

Nadim Rouhana

Nadim Rouhana is completing his MacArthur Foundation funded research project on Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return. The project, conducted with Yoav Peled from Tel Aviv University, has two primary objectives:
(1) to deconstruct Israeli and Palestinian narratives on the right of return of the Palestinian refugees in understanding the most outstanding facets of this issue for each side;
(2) to assess whether the ongoing discussion of past injustices and their rectification, in political theory and moral philosophy, can help advance new thinking on this issue in a way that would contribute to reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.

In this project, researchers use multiple methodologies: discourse analysis to delineate the various Israeli and Palestinian views on the right of return and distinguish between the various dimensions of this issue; quantitative analysis of data drawn from public opinion polls; and semistructured interviews with 60 opinion leaders, to examine their views on various dimensions of the right of return and the acceptability of various solutions that will be formulated on the basis of the current debate on past injustices.

During the last year Rouhana has published three papers on related issues. The first paper, entitled “Group Identity and Power Asymmetry in Reconciliation Processes: The Israeli- Palestinian Case”, was published in Peace and Conflict, the second (co-authored with Yoav Peled), entitled “Transitional Justice and the Right of Return of the Palestinian Refugees”, was published in Theoretical Inquiries in Law; and the third, entitled “Truth and Reconciliation: The Right of Return in the Context of Past Injustice” in a book edited by Ian Lustick and Ann Lesch (University of Pennsylvania Press).

Rouhana is working on a project that brings some of the views of third world scholars and practitioners into conflict resolution. The project deals with issues of justice, historic truth and responsibility, the importance of power asymmetries in conflict analysis and its resolution, and the central role that fair distribution of tangible and intangible resources should play in our thinking about conflict resolution.

Rouhana is working with Richard Rubenstein on planning a conference on “Conflict Resolution in Highly Asymmetric Conflict”. The conference is being planned to honor Christopher Mitchell and celebrate his career and his central contributions to the field. The conference is designed as the first activity of “Point of View”, ICAR’s Research and Conference Center, on whose development Professor Rouhana is working.

Richard Rubenstein

Richard Rubenstein was on sabbatical in the spring term 2004, conducting research in London on his forthcoming book, a study of empire, ethics, and conflict called Thus Saith the Lord: The Revolutionary Vision of Isaiah and Jeremiah. At the end of April, he organized a conference at the European Parliament in Brussels on “News Media Coverage of Violent Social Conflicts: European and American Perspectives” (a summary of the proceedings may be found at the ICAR website, gmu.edu/departments/ICAR). A larger conference on the same topic was held on November 11-13, 2004, in Washington, D.C. under the auspices of ICAR, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and the People’s Program. Some 35 conferees representing the fields of journalism, media studies, and conflict analysis and resolution met to consider what could be done to improve print and broadcast media coverage of violent and potentially violent political conflicts.

In May, Rubenstein lectured on “Religious Terrorism: Causes and Cures,” at his alma mater, Balliol College of Oxford University. Back in the United States, he facilitated two well-attended public discussions of controversial movies at Fairfax’s Cinema Arts Theatre: Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (with a panel discussion including ICAR’s Marc Gopin and three other clergy) and Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 (with a panel discussion featuring Marc Raskin and Lee Edwards). Rubenstein appeared at the Cosmos Club’s Book and Author Dinner in June to discuss his book, Aristotle’s Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages. During the same month, he attended and spoke at a conference on “The Future of Terrorism” sponsored by the National Intelligence Council.

During the fall term 2004, Aristotle’s Children was published in paperback, as well as in Mexican, Greek, Dutch, and Korean editions. Rubenstein continued work on Thus Saith the Lord; organized and moderated a Northern Virginia Congressional Candidates forum on “Long-Term National Security and the Future of American Foreign Policy”; conducted the ICAR conference on “News Media Coverage of Violent Conflicts”; presented an ICAR Brown Bag seminar on the same topic; and became an active member of the Washington Area Metropolitan Council of the AFLCIO's Collective Bargaining Education Project. He also spoke at Robinson High School on “The Ethics and Politics of Military Intervention” and was a featured speaker at the annual conference of the Department of Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Connecticut/Stamford, where his topic was “Jewish-Muslim Relations: Causes of Conflict and Prospects for Resolution.” The Smithsonian Institution Associates Program has invited him to conduct a one-day seminar on Aristotle’s Children early next year.

Dennis Sandole

In January 2004, as a speaker for the U.S. State Department, Dr. Dennis Sandole traveled to Keningau, Sabah (North Borneo), in Malaysia, where he conducted a two-day “Workshop on Conflict Analysis and Resolution,” at the INSAN Leadership Development Campus. While in Malaysia, he also made presentations for the Sabah Economic Development Corporation (SEDCO), Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. In addition, he presented two papers at the “Conference on Issues and Challenges for Peace and Conflict Resolution in Southeast Asia,” in Penang, Malaysia.

From March 1 through June 30, 2004, Dr. Sandole was Fulbright Visiting Professor in International Studies at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna (DAK), in Vienna, Austria: Austria’s leading institution for the training of diplomats and others from around the world. During his time at DAK, Dr. Sandole taught “Theories of International Relations,” “Peacebuilding,” “Simulation Workshop in Negotiation and Mediation in Complex Conflicts,” and “Seminar in Research Methods” to Austrian and international students participating in an MA and other postgraduate programs in international studies.

During his Fulbright in Vienna, for which he had been granted study leave from GMU, Dr. Sandole interviewed representatives from a number of participating states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), as part of his continuing Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)/OSCE project. (The CSCE, the “Helsinki Process”, was reframed as the OSCE on 1 January 1995.) This project began with interviews of CSCE representatives in 1993, then continued with interviews of OSCE representatives in 1997 and 1999, with Dr. Sandole returning in 2004 to update the project. In each case, he elicited senior negotiators' views on peace and security in post-Cold War Europe, including how to prevent future Yugoslav-type conflicts and, with the 2004 survey, how to prevent 9/11- type terrorism as well. The project will soon culminate in the submission of a manuscript to select publishers, “Brave New Worlds and Beyond: Peace and Security in the Postmodern World.”

Dr Sandole has published, with two ICAR MS graduates, Ms. Kimberly Dannels Ruff and Ms. Evis Vasili, “Identity and Apocalyptic Terrorism,” in Apocalyptic Terrorism: Understanding the Unfathomable. This was a publication of ICAR’s Working Group on War, Violence, and Terrorism and was published by the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency. He also published two book chapters, “Building Peace in Post-NATO Bosnia: A Recommended Action Plan,” in From Peace Making to Self Sustaining — International Presence in South East Europe at a Crossroads?” and “Review of Henryk Sokalski. An Ounce of Prevention: Macedonia and the UN Experience in Preventive Diplomacy.

Carlos Sluzki

During the academic year 2003-04, Professor Carlos E. Sluzki was the acting Dean for Health Sciences and Research at the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, George Mason University; he is now returning to ICAR part time. In 2004, he published a book chapter, “Back from where we come from”, in F.Walsh and M.McGoldrick, eds.; Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family, 2nd. edition. (Norton); an article, “A house taken over by ghosts: Culture, migration and developmental cycle in a Moroccan family invaded by hallucinations,” in the journal Families, Systems and Health, 22(3); and a number of editorials in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Sluzki also contributed keynote presentations in professional congresses in Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and the U.S.

Wallace Warfield

Professor Wallace Warfield continues his participation on the Zones of Peace research team along with professors Chris Mitchell (Principal Investigator), and Kevin Avruch, editing the final report to United States Institute if Peace. Warfield has written an article published in the Missouri Journal of Dispute Resolution titled “Response to Carrie Menkel- Meadow’s ‘Correspondences and Contradictions in International and Domestic Conflict Resolution.’” The article was part of a symposium.