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Campus Wars: Reclaiming the Socratic LegacyAs with most conflicts of consequence, most people know of them, while many live in ways that enable them to ignore or avoid them altogether. Such is the case with the various struggles over higher education in the United States that erupted over the past century, characterized in a turn on James Davison Hunter’s phrase as the Campus Wars. These struggles are the result of persistent and perhaps natural ideological tension between professors and the broader community. The tension results from the relatively liberal or progressive political views of the professoriate and from its willingness to share those views. The fact that this tension only occasionally results in overt conflict is probably more a function of emergent political... |
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Rob Scott: ICAR Board Member and AlumnaRob Scott has been involved with ICAR for more than 20 years, beginning with his enrollment in the M.S. program in 1984. Since completion of his degree in 1990, Rob has been active in the field of conflict analysis and resolution as the Executive Director of the Northern Virginia Mediation Service for over ten years and currently the Disaster Attorney and Cadre Manager in the Agency for Dispute Resolution at the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency. Rob has been very active in the ICAR community for nearly 10 years, playing a key role on the Board of Advisors and financially supporting the work of ICAR and its students. Believing that ICAR had given him a truly unique training experience that he could not have received in a more... |
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ICAR Alumni Give GenerouslyEach year, ICAR alumni provide critical financial and volunteer support to show their commitment to the work of ICAR and its students, the field of conflict analysis and resolution, and the training of the next generation of professionals. These contributions are essential to the success of ICAR and demonstrate a very strong connection between the institute, its students and alumni. Bruce Engelbert and Cynthia Irmer, two such examples, have been a part of the ICAR family for more than a decade. Bruce, a retired federal employee, worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Energy for more than 30 years in the areas of environmental... |
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ICAR Launches Career Intensives Fall 2007 Workshops Feature Development and SecurityICAR’s Career Services took another step forward this year with the inauguration of a series of Career Intensives. The day long workshops help ICAR students and alumni build the skills and knowledge to successfully job search in a particular sector. The key component of the workshops is practice in framing academic and work experience and tailoring resumes and interviews toward specific career goals. The October 27th intensive focused on careers in Development. The November 17th intensive focused on Security and Intelligence careers. Planned intensives for Spring 2008 include Development, Public Policy, and Organizational Conflict. Prior to the workshop, participants prepared resumes and cover letters and received individual... |
Upcoming ICAR Community EventsFor more info on events, email [email protected] November 30: December 4: December 6: |
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ICAR, Friedrich Ebert Foundation Host Transatlantic WorkshopThis fall, ICAR and Germany’s Friedrich Ebert Foundation co-hosted a historic meeting, the first-ever conference of European and North American experts discussing how the concepts and processes of conflict analysis and resolution (CAR) can be used to transform foreign policy. The three-day workshop, "Partnering for Peace: Transatlantic Concepts for Conflict Resolution in Public Policy," assembled 35 conflict resolution specialists and policymakers to make recommendations on how to make CAR practices central to foreign policy formation, international diplomacy, military-civil cooperation, and international development. Policymakers present included Ambassador Friedrich Dauble, who is tasked with promoting... |
Recent ICAR Op-Eds and Letters to the EditorBold Way Out of Kosovo Impasse |
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The Missing Two-Way StreetIn an effort to win hearts and minds, the Bush administration’s public diplomacy initiatives in the Muslim World have failed to do either. It squandered opportunities to gain valuable insight into anti- U.S. sentiment, opting instead for a psychological operations-style campaign aimed at explaining the benefits of U.S. foreign policy to the Middle East. As Muslim opinion of the U.S. continues to plummet in the wake of Karen Hughes' resignation, the public diplomacy shop faces an uphill battle. First, most initiatives are ethnocentric and fail to address serious issues. One disastrous example was Hi! magazine, which targeted teenagers in the Muslim World with articles on sand-boarding, yoga, and online dating. This... |
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Silvia Susnjic
Silvia Susnjic, an ICAR Ph.D. student, is spotlighted this month for her research on peace psychology. Susnjic first became interested in the field of conflict resolution while studying psychology at Lewis- Clark State College. Susnjic credits her adviser, who specialized in nonviolence and peace psychology, for influencing her interest. After completing her degree in psychology, she moved on to Columbia University to research conflict resolution. Now at ICAR, Susnjic says that the Institute "seemed a normal part of the sequence, a perfect program with my interests in peace and conflict resolution and the emphasis on combining research and practice." ... |
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Min Zaw Oo
This month, ICAR recognizes Ph.D. student Min Zaw Oo. Coming to ICAR in 2001, he first completed a M.S. degree in conflict analysis and risk-assessments of political transitions in Burma. Oo is now residing at ICAR's Point of View site in Mason Neck, Virginia, one of three Point of View Fellows completing dissertations there. He is writing his dissertation on modeling instability in political transitions and looking at various variables that influence political transitions between 1955-2006. At the age of 14, Oo was active in Burma’s pro-democracy uprising... |
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Eleanor Roosevelt Student ScholarshipKnown as one of the 20th Century’s most influential women, Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political leader who used her influence as First Lady from 1933 to 1945 to promote the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and take a prominent role as a civil rights advocate. Eleanor founded the United Nations Association of the United States in 1943 to advance support for the formation of the U.N. and was a delegate to the U.N. General Assembly in 1945, chairing the committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Public service did not stop there, as Eleanor maintained a daily "My Day" column, a nationally syndicated column published from 1935 to 1962. During... |