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Conflict Resolution, One Book at a Time
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Dirt on Our Hands
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Conflict as an opportunity
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Horizon that is always receding
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Peacebuilding: the new generation
Feckless on Foreign Policy
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EU as model for peace
An online occupation
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Fed Up With Climate Change Apathy
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Syrian Ramadan at the Edge of War
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When diplomatic opportunities were dismissed
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U.S. Credibility Around the World Damaged by Afghanistan War
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Mason student’s question to Democratic presidential candidate goes viral
Dirty Energy Dollars
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Rights groups renew request for release of defendants in the Belady Foundation case and urge compliance with legal standards for pretrial detention
Climate change denial — the dangerous lie
Mason Center Works Toward a Peaceful Future
China’s Foreign Policy Debates
Indian Guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Hopes to Teach Peace to the Taliban
Public ‘schools of hope’ could be anything but
EU Threat Has Inspired Panic Rather than Reform
We can only hope that the cerebral will get the better of the visceral
Land Rights Have Become A Women's Issue Through Social Mobilization In Cambodia
65 years after 'catastrophe,' Palestinians have little to cheer about
Needed: Social Engineering?
The case for compulsory voting
Robert C. Koehler: Healthy conflict creates resilient communities
Experts Say There Will Be No Contest in Ethiopia's Upcoming Vote
Turkmenistan cautiously opens to the world
A New Approach to Dealing With Global Food Insecurity
یەریڤان سەعید، توێژەر لە پەیمانگای وڵاتانی كەنداو لە واشنتۆن:
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The Current of Discord on the Mekong
Addressing DC's truancy epidemic
Conflict resolution workshop benefits Patriots and participants
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Man-to-man chat can avert disaster
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Cure Police Violence As If It Were a Disease
Unclenched Fists
Motives of suicide terrorists
Ukrainian and Crimean Authorities Snub OSCE over Minority Rights
Americans have had enough conflict
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Missing From Trial: Detainee Statements
Nimr Al Nimr: Anatomy of a Man
Essebsi Must Work With Islamists to Ensure Tunisia’s Transition
Nonviolent resistance key to Middle East breakthrough
When Contested Narratives of Identity and Victimhood are Victims of Politics
Yemen: Ripe for a solution?
Want to cut big government abuses? Start with defence contracting
New Crimean Tatar History Book Comes Under Attack from Russian Nationalist Groups
Post Eurozone crisis, how to increase a country's resilience to risk
The Syrian Revolution Is Not a Holy War
Conflict Analysis and Resolution Students Named Boren Fellows
Egypt’s Street Children, Aya Hijazi, and Me
George Mason University Partners With an African Nonprofit Organization- 72Africa
Equality in action: A conversation at the checkpoint
Palestine's Right to Defend Itself
Book review: The Shifting Grounds of Conflict and Peacebuilding
Religions meet at VST
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Holy Land tours a new tool in peacebuilding
The three-ring circus of American politics
Options for Action in Syria
Court clears American aid worker after 3 years behind bars in Egypt
Beyond Jewish Blessings and Curses There is Absolute Love
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Vatican Mayors Summit Spots Pope on Municipal Pulpit
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America Must Rethink the War on Terror: The Authorization for Use of Military Force needs to be modified to avoid mission creep
ما هو الإرث السياسي لمحمود عباس؟
Can the Tribes of NATO help the Tribes of Afghanistan?
How to Pull Yemen Back from the Edge
Mass shootings show need for gun law reform
Direct Analytical Approach to Peacebuilding
Scholars skeptical on Japan apology
Universities More Moderate than Believed
Use US soft power to free the Ashraf Seven
What Would MLK Think of America’s Modern Wars?
Realising peace potential of constitution
At Town Hall, Sanders Makes Commitment to 'End All Forms of Racism in This Country'
Police Militarization Must Be Halted
An OSCE reconciliation strategy for Cyprus?
Why Obama should pardon Snowden: Column
Ethiopian Ruling Coalition Wins Majority of Parliament Seats
"We Are Not Like Them": Itamar Massacre Activates A Dangerous Israeli-Jewish Ethnocentrism
Mason’s Global Problem Solving Consortium in National Spotlight
Keeping USAID: why the US shouldn’t cut off its nose
Afghans Want U.S. to Stay but Do Things Differently
Hope for Peace May Be Encouraged by Enemies in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Promoting Peace and Conflict Awareness In Small Town America: Independence, Kansas
Congress Must Tax Fossil Fuels
Confronting genocide in Myanmar: The urgent need to prevent and protect
Creating Resilient Communities
Could ‘Insight Policing’ have saved Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray and others?
Women in combat: US military on verge of making it official
Advertising against Muslims? Not with my tax dollars
The Difference Between Protest America 1968 And 2017
A third intifada is inevitable unless Israel changes course
Germany's lesson for U.S. -- keep faith with workers
Bosnia: Stabilization Stalled in Negative Peace
Anacostia: Why I have faith in the future of my neighborhood
Europe Must Help Syria’s Women Make Peace
Post-Election Ferguson: Bipartisan Congress to Demilitarize Police
Egypt: Revolution or bust
Hong Kong's 'Occupy': A movement for universal suffrage in Hong Kong is worrying Beijing
No Immunity for US Troops: Why Hamid Karzai Punted to Loya Jirga
Egyptian-American activist Aya Hegazi returns to US following Egypt court acquittal
Hamas Should Be Part of Middle East Peace Talks
Libya’s GNA and the Future of Public Discourse
Republicans want to fight climate change, too
Does China Have a Foreign Policy?
Open letter to President-elect Trump and government officials at all levels
Do military women want combat jobs? The survey numbers say yes — and so do more than 9,000 combat action badges
Civilian Devastation During War Explored in ‘Why They Die’
Politics and Language: Dimension Beyond Words
Cyprus: An EU Presidency occupied by Candidate Turkey
Soldiers Into Students: Veterans, Educators Try to Ease Transition
Counter-Revolutions and Evolutions: Lessons of Egypt and Iran
التدخل الروسي أوقف انهيار النظام السوري مؤقتاً
The Big Problems in Obama's Big Trade Deals
Athletes Pick A Side At The Women's March
Aziz Abu Sarah – Ending the Cycle of Violence in Israel and Palestine
Hunger strike highlights forgotten tragedy of Palestinian prisoners
Turkey’s Kurdish Peace Process – Analysis - Part 3
Sit down with Iran to ensure there is no ‘October surprise’
The Obama administration ignores an American imprisoned in Egypt
Art Student Set to Send ‘Transformative’ Project Up in Flames on Mason Pond
Peshmerga-Iraqi forces united over Mosul, but can this last?
Faculty Spotlight on Innovation: Susan Hirsch & Agnieszka Paczynska
Trust in Maliki harms U.S. credibility
Reimagining Transitional Justice in Bali
PCDN's Dr. Catalina Rojas awarded the prestigious SXSW Dewey Award for use of digital technology to help others
The Noxious Origins of NYC Gentrification: Cooking Gas
Tunisia’s Elections Seal Transition, Raise Fears of Old Regime
Interview with CNN: Ancient blueprint for Middle East peace touring U.S.
သုတေတီတစ်ဦး၏ နာဂဒေသနှင့်လူမျိုးများအကြောင်း [Research about the future of local and indigenous people]
Insight Policing and the Role of the Civilian in Police Accountability
Origins and Responses to the Arab Awakening
Crimean Tatars Support EuroMaidan Protests in Kyiv
When Washington Welcomes A Nonviolent Muslim: What CBS News and Congress Have In Common
Politics and the city – the battle over Istanbul’s Gezi park
Boarding the Train for a Trip into the Past
Rep. Charles Rangel: Let's slow down the next superstorm
The World Discovers Afghanistan’s Peaceful Clerics
Turkey’s Kurdish peace process: dead end – part 1
Could a Nuclear Iran Bring About More Stability, Rather Than Less?
Hillary Clinton’s Response to the Pulse Orlando Shootings
CPCS Hosted Conference in Washington D.C.
Sudan, after the breakup: Can violence be prevented?
Time to write the rules for cyber and drone challenges
10 Syria Questions for John Kerry and Chuck Hagel
Trump’s favorite dictator is jailing U.S. citizens
Morocco a Stable East-West Bridge
Riyadh Conference: What Makes It Different?
How Germans Go Green
Why Protest? And What’s Next: Truth-Telling and Reconciliation for Ferguson and Beyond
How Did VP Candidates Do in the Debate? Our Latino Panel Weighs In
How to Solve Your Conflicts, and Get FED at the Same Time
Netanyahu’s address to Congress is a recipe for disaster, not peace
Why Congress Should Care About the Beepocalypse | Commentary
Violence and violence-containment's $460 billion price tag
The Lonely Man of Peace
Iran's Election Win Warrants U.S. Sanctions Rethink
Pro-Earth Republicans In The Era Of President Trump
Settler Terrorism -- An American Problem
Why Qaddafi's Death Is Significant
Doctoral Student Goes to Hollywood to Teach Peace Techniques
Comment: The Cyprus Challenge: A solution paradigm shift
Using hip-hop to resolve global conflict
Will Saudi Arabia's 'Operation Decisive Storm' restore order in Yemen?
Trump got Egypt to free an American prisoner. Here’s her story.
Genocide or Terrorism? Transnational Advocacy and the Ogaden Conflict
Ethiopia’s Muslim Activists Pave a Path for Nonviolent Political Activism
Iraqi Kurdistan fears Maliki returning to power
A Peacebuilding Approach to Teaching About Extremism
Detroit On The Brink
Sandy Hook shootings: We need to focus on more than just gun control
U.S. Couple Held In Egyptian Prison For 1 Year Over Unfounded Child Abuse
Albany Gets "F" for Failing to Protect Tenants
Liberia’s Path from Anarchy to Elections
The Bo Xilai Verdict: Everybody Wins
Lack of US-Syria Diplomacy Leads to Dangerous Isolation
The 2017 Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate: Is ISIS an Existential Threat to the United States?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR; Resolving Conflicts in the Caucasus
Couple Spend Their Wedding Money on Street Children, End up in an Egyptian Prison
Death to America in Yemen? No.
Russian Consul General to Crimea Resigns Following Offensive Comments About Crimean Tatar Deportation
Peace – practical, not fanciful
Election campaigns and the politics of performance
Inside the Beltway: Pillars of liberty
Unholy Media Malpractice: The press totally missed the point of Bernie Sanders' trip to the Vatican.
How to fix our police departments
Hillel Event Bridges Israeli-Palestinian Gap
Why Rep. Hunter Is Very Wrong About Nuking Iran
Busting the Biofuels Boom
‘Strength through peace – not peace through strength’: a reaction to Trump’s America First foreign policy
Muslim advocates welcome Bernie Sanders' support but want visible action
Science of unintended consequences
The Audacity of Air Strikes and Secret Deals: Just making Isis grow stronger?
Interreligious Intercultural Dialogue Institutionalized - Deja Vu All Over Again
Moving Beyond Hope: The IOC and Team Refugee
Evolving policy in a changing world: Examining challenges and opportunities in the new US Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review
Why defeating ISIS with military might is starry eyed idealism
Bosnia Back on the Brink: Ukraine can learn from Bosnia's failed socioeconomic policies
Firing Up Kurdish Nationalism in Iraq
Wanted: Middle East Statesmen
Stimson Center Names Five Nonresident Fellows
To finally see the invisible Israelis before our eyes
Afghans Failing Security Test In Badakhshan
Conflict Resolution Educators Converge on Mason for Annual Conference
As China’s Economy Falters, Military Parade Offers Chance to Burnish Image
Bullies, Jerks and Weasels
Why the White House Won't Win the Afghanistan War
Let's keep Syria's blood off America's hands
Working for Peace in the Age of Trump
'Tribunal' Opens Hearings Into Mass Killings in Indonesia
The 'anti-science' side of the political divide
Why Congress Needs to Act Now On Super-Pollutants
Collateral damage by drones dirties the hands of our nation
Meet Nousha Kabawat and her unstoppable drive to help Syria’s displaced children thrive
Politics Unusual
Yemen Can't Do It Alone
Human Rights of Crimean Tatars Discussed in European Parliament
Drowning the Arab Spring in Gulf Oil
Trump 'ordered Sisi' to release US-Egyptian charity worker
5 Ways We Should Radically Reconsider War
Academics & Activists Discuss Poverty, Inequality, Conflict
Peace-maker: We must look below the surface
Awakening the Demons: There is no Arab Spring coming to Iraq. But sectarian protests could tear this fragile country apart.
Beijing Encroaching on Moscow’s Military Dominance in Tajikistan
Mason Student Strives to Bring Peace Before Dangerous African Presidential Vote
Why the US must support bid for Palestinian statehood
U.S.-E.U. Rhetoric on Russia as Destructive as a Chekhovian Duel
Woodbridge Resident Gains White House Internship
Inevitable US policy shift on Burma: why and how
UVA Gives Diversity Awards to Longtime Professors McDowell and Dukes
Collaboration with China is preferable to containment
Global Mayors Protest Trump’s Anti-Climate Cabinet
Myanmar's negotiator expresses belief in China's willingness to help in peace process
Congress makes Elmo cry by defunding Palestinian 'Sesame Street'
Turning Training into Action: Mason Students Analyze a Conflict in Brazil
The Green Wave washes over a movement in hibernation
My Turkish Airport
Insights Obama can now use to undermine Putin’s narrative
Ghailani Trial and Sentence Affirms US Federal Court System
Is America turning into a failed state?
Look to Iran for a solution in Syria
American Aid Worker Is Cleared of Child Abuse Charges in Egypt
Author, Terrorism Victim Hirsch Says Capital Punishment Hurts U.S. Image Abroad
How a monk-turned-street artist sees New York City’s homeless
We can't let climate change turn droughts, flash floods and mudslides into the new normal
Rand Paul's Filibuster Gives Civil Liberties A Rare Washington Moment
Activists: Release of Detainees in Syria Crucial to Peace Process
Displaced by Genocide, Mason Student Plans to Help Other Refugees
Comment: A federal constituent “state” is not in the interest of Turkish Cypriots
Crimean Tatars Fear for Their Safety After Crimea’s Annexation to Russia
No end in sight for conflict between our two angels
The only way forward on Syria
In Egypt, even helping street children can land you in prison
Why US and Chinese cities will make or break any global climate deal
A peace dividend we should all want
Beware Libya’s ‘Fair Dictator’
Political Discourse: A Family Affair
Trump Should Take a Lesson From the Pope on How to Lead
Saudi in Yemen; It’s personal now
Imagining Peace: The Practical Advantages for Muslims, Jews and Christians of Peace for Palestine and Israel
The Dangers of Soft Power: Government backed cultural programs often come across as just propaganda
At summer camp, Syrian child refugees recall a lost homeland
Lawmakers in Washington increasingly concerned about Ethiopia
EMU Professor Urges Shift in Iraqi, Afghan Strategy
Fayetteville Charity Helps African Group
Yemen’s a Model All Right—For Disaster
China and Japan engage neocortices
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry denounces US calls for Aya Hegazy’s release
Fulbright Scholars Offer Tips to Win the Prize
Reflections of a Catholic American on bin Laden’s death
How to Defuse the Ukraine Crisis: The way to respond to Russia is not with Cold War rhetoric
Shank and Gilchrest: Increasing the Peace Can Reduce the Debt
Faith-Based Diplomacy
How Egypt’s most famous jailed couple celebrated Valentine’s Day
UC Berkeley holds 6th annual TED conference, explores themes of wisdom, compassion
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