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The Rhetorical Priority of Class: It's Economic Incompatibility, Stupid!I travel in the sorts of circles in which everyone I know stands bewildered by the ascendance of Donald Trump. His rise was difficult to not predict, his message was so extreme and distorted that it not only flirted with, but dwelled in stigma and polluted right wing, ethnic identity politics, and his style of campaigning seemed like it had no chance of keeping up with the professional ground game of the Democratic Party. As those of us in the field of conflict resolution attempt to make sense of how we can be helpful in a world that feels mad to many, we will need to renew our theoretical commitments as much as our political... |
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The Warrior in a Garden: A Call for Veteran PeacebuildersThere is a quote from ancient Chinese lore that I am quite fond of. A student asks his master: “You teach me fighting but you talk about peace. How do you reconcile the two?” The master replied: “It is better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war.” It has been fifteen years since the events of September 11, 2001, and out of that day the United States found itself involved in three wars; Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Global War on Terror. For my part in these events, I served in the United States Marine Corps from 2001-2005, with... |
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Collaboratively Advancing Conflict Resolution PedagogyHow do we effectively teach and promulgate conflict analysis and conflict resolution skills and knowledge? Answering this question was the focus of two recent conflict resolution education conferences held this year. The first, hosted on the Arlington Campus by the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution was the Sixth Annual Graduate Education Symposium on May 27, 2016. The second was the International Conflict Resolution Education Conference, in Columbus Ohio on June 8 -13, 2016. In both instances S-CAR faculty, staff and students actively contributed to both the organization and the content. ... |
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Dual Master's in CRAMS Cohort Reflects on First MonthThe Dual Master’s Degree in Conflict Resolution and Mediterranean Security (CRAMS), which S-CAR offers in collaboration with the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies (MEDAC) in Malta, is currently celebrating its seventh year. The new ten-member cohort, comprising a diverse team of young conflict analysts, just completed successfully their first month in the program, a busy, yet rewarding month, that started with a three-day orientation and was followed by four weeks of coursework. During these first four weeks, group members had the opportunity to meet... |
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S-CAR Undergraduate Students Present at the United Nation's General Assembly On Friday, September 16, 2016, eight undergraduate students from the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution presented at the United Nation’s International Day of Peace Student Observance. The Student Observance brought hundreds of students from across the United States and around the world to hear from distinguished speakers and celebrate peacebuilding. |
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Sandra Tombe, PhD Student Sandra Tombe, who is originally from South Sudan, is a member of the 2016 fall PhD cohort at S-CAR. According to Sandra, her personal experiences nurtured her interest in conflicts and in wanting to better understand them. |
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Remembering Ahmed Sherif DakrouryS-CAR mourns the loss of Ahmed Sherif Dakroury. Ahmed graduated from S-CAR’s dual-degree program in Malta and joined the Egyptian foreign service immediately after he finished his coursework. Ahmed embodied the spirit of the Egyptian Revolution; he embraced diplomacy both as a vehicle to serve his country and as a way to carry the promise of the revolution forward. His style and attitude toward life were uniquely his own. He will be dearly missed by his friends.
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Organization Reports on Bar-Tal's "Anti-Israeli" Talk at S-CARDaniel Bar-Tal, one of the most prominent scholars in the fields of political psychology and conflict resolution visited S-CAR last month. Bar-Tal, a Professor Emeritus at the Tel-Aviv University, has been studying social processes in the Israeli society for several decades. One of his findings is that the moral and democratic values of Jewish-Israelis has been corroded as a result of Israel’s ongoing military control of Palestinians. Bar-Tal, now retired, came to the U.S. to talk about his initiative to consolidate Jews around the world that love Israel but oppose the occupation. The initiative’s central message is that the prolonged control must end as it poses a real threat not only for Palestinians but also for Israelis. |
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How Did Trump Win?The question how did Trump win has multiple complex answers, from being a response to economic deprivation to being a result of political resettlement. But one of the core explanations is linked to the definition of national identity. In multi-cultural societies, a political national identity has competing meanings based on alternative interpretations of constitutional principles, culture, and nationalistic sentiments. The connection with a particular narrative chosen among the set of available national narratives provides people the meaning of identity, connection to the nation, and temporal coherence. It helps clearly define the... |