Sally Moreland

Sally Moreland was one of the two incoming M.S. students chosen to receive the Laue Scholarship given in memory of James H. Laue and his dedication and service to the field of education and in particular, ICAR.

Sally has known that she wanted to attend graduate school for conflict resolution since her first year of college. She majored in Political Science, but minored in conflict resolution and peace studies. Sally was not only active within her school community, however, she was also active in her community as a volunteer mediator with Catholic Charities of York, PA.

Sally looked at several different graduate programs in conflict resolution, but was impressed that at ICAR, Conflict Resolution was not housed under another office, but rather was a stand-alone program. She is interested in taking courses focusing on international conflict and is particularly interested to learn more about Northern Ireland, where she spent the spring semester of 2006, and the Balkans. She is also very interested in the ways in which religion can provide a healing tool in post-conflict situations. Her work as a volunteer in victim-offender mediations opened her eyes to the variety of areas in which conflict resolution can be helpful and also helped her recognize a desire to get the tools and theories of conflict resolution to a broader audience, including school-age children.

Eventually, Sally would like to be a professor of conflict analysis and resolution because she feels so passionately about conflict resolution that she wants to pass that passion and excitement on to the next generation of practitioners and theoreticians, but she sees that as a distant goal which will be prefaced by a great deal more field experience.