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Scholar Opinion: The Struggle for West Papuan IndependenceNew Guinea, the world’s second largest island, sits on the Pacific Rim, a few degrees south of the equator and approximately 150km north of Australia. Originally connected to the mainland of Australia, this island for over a thousand years was home to hundreds of groups of Melanesian and Austronesian people. In 1885, the island and its people were divided by a partition agreement between the Dutch, English, and German colonial governments. This partition split the island into Papua New Guinea (in the east) and Indonesian-occupied West Papua (in the west), and it remains so even to this day... |
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Ukraine: The Struggle for Power and IdentityThe decision of the Ukrainian president to turn away from the European Union has led to mass street protests. But that decision was only a triggering event, not the main motivation for the current unrest. Despite the mass media's presentation of the current situation in Ukraine as a conflict between a pro-Russian government and pro-European anti-totalitarian popular opposition, the reality is much more complex and multilayered. One dimension is ethnic and regional differences in the perception of the nation and the contested and controversial process of imagining a national community. The second... |
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Sudan at the Crossroads: Using Education to Resolve 48 Years of ConflictAfter completing her Masters degree at George Mason University, Megan Greeley, an S-CAR alumna, joined an international NGO, with a field office located in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. Megan, who has always been very committed to the field of conflict resolution, engaged in other consultancy and peacebuilding matters outside of her official job. During one such consultancy, Megan met with the Director of the Peace and Development Studies at the University of Bahri in Khartoum about how to make the school more sustainable. Megan’s suggestion was that she would liaise on behalf of the... |
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S-CAR Speaks: The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution's Weekly Video Podcast ProjectAs students, faculty members, scholars, and practitioners of the S-CAR community, continue to look to engage in and undertake initiatives to tackle both domestic and global issues, the focus of the weekly video podcast project, dubbed S-CAR Speaks, will look to engage with those individuals about their work and their efforts in both the field and in academia. |
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Community, Transparency, and the S-CAR Student Association What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” |
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Spotlight: Christy Cheesman, CAR Undergraduate Student Christy Cheesman is a Conflict Analysis and Resolution major at George Mason University. Her concentration is in community organizations and she intends to work for a non-profit organization in DC in the very near future. Christy is a sophomore from Williamsburg, Virginia, and last semester she completed a non-profit studies minor as well as an internship with The National Center for State Courts Arlington Office. She is also a proud member of the Mindful Living LLC and a sister of Gamma Phi Beta. |
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Spotlight: Ihsan Gunduz, S-CAR MS StudentThe words, “In cases of protracted conflict, an act of violence always has unanticipated consequences. Its effects far exceed the objectives of strategists and perpetrators” were what first drew Ihsan Gundiz to the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. As he said “I felt a very deep connection in reading the book titled Identity, Morality, and Threat authored by Daniel Rothbart and Karina Korostelina [both professors at S-CAR], as it explained a lot about the conflict that I was born into.” |