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Mara Schoeny

Mara Schoeny
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Program Director, and Graduate Certificate Program Director

Ph.D., Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
M.S., Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

Biography

Mara Schoeny is an associate professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and the Director of the School's Graduate Certificate Program. She teaches courses in research and evaluation methods, practice skills and the integration of inter-disciplinary approaches to conflict analysis and resolution. She was a 1998 USIA Visiting Fellow in the Curriculum Development Exchange Program, in residence at Yerevan State University, Armenia. As part of the grant she developed and taught simulation courses for undergraduate and master’s level sociology and social work students in family, organizational, political and community conflict. She is a former youth camp director with experience in traditional camp settings as well as dialogue and co-existence camps for youth from conflict areas. Her research and practice interests include nonviolence, education and training and dialogue processes.



Awards and Honors
Teaching Excellence Award
Mara is 2008 Mason Teaching Excellence Award Winner.
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Continuation of steps in research process to prepare dissertation and implement published research. Builds on CONF 811 by examining qualitative...
Capstone course facilitating integration of learning in the graduate certificate programs, and appropriate mentored application and experiential...
Covers assessment methods appropriate to conflict contexts, and related evaluation approaches and techniques for use...
Introduces students to the philosophies behind social science research and the methods for conducting research in the field of conflict resolution...
Introduces field of conflict analysis and resolution. Examines the origins of social conflict, the practices and...
Capstone course in which students reflect on what they have learned, integrating knowledge from course work and...
Covers conflict at mezzo level, introducing theories of social harmony and conflict, drawing on sociology, social...
Covers conflict at micro level, introducing theories drawn from various disciplines including psychology, anthropology, and conflict resolution....
Introduces social science research methods at undergraduate level. Covers basic epistemology of social research,...
This course focuses on advanced consideration of CONF 101 topics, provides an introduction of the core notion of reflective practice, conflict...
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2017
International law and minimum standards provide certain protection for detainees and prisoners of war (POW) against torture and ill-treatment. Places of detention and parties to conflicts are often monitored to ensure that they adhere to the required standards...
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2010
Foreward, by Dennis Sandole:There is a natural tension between “forewording” a group of presentations made in honor of a distinguished colleague on the occasion of his or her retirement and one made in memoriam of that same colleague as a consequence...
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July 28, 2006
This research study is a qualitative exploration of both scholarly and practitioner views of elicitive training within the field of conflict resolution. Primary data were gathered through open-ended interviews with elicitive trainers. A grounded theory approach...
Category: Doctoral Dissertation
July 01, 2000
With roots in both the field of labor-management negotiation and the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, practitioners and theorists of conflict resolution have been guided by two main theories concerning the objectives of alternative dispute resolution...
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June 01, 1997
While the concept of “peace” has many definitions, mostly it describes a common concern for reducing violence, and for improving physical, spiritual, and psychological living conditions. Establishing a “zone of peace” thus requires us not...
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February 2011
Threaded through her work and scholarship is a commitment to reflective practice and a keen sensitivity to the dynamics
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April 26, 2010
How can we be a better community? This is the question at the heart of Community Conversations, an Arlington, Va.,
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November 2009
When the Association for Conflict Resolution gathered in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 7-10 for its 9th annual
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February 19, 2009
Report Discusses Concerns, IdeasArlington County is a diverse, inclusive community. It says so right atop its Web site
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December 03, 2008
Mara Schoeny, Assistant Professor at George Mason University’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution,
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Mixed methods are becoming increasingly important in the fields of conflict analysis and resolution. Whether we are using them in practice to strengthen program design and evaluation, iteratively theory building or integrating qualitative approaches into quantitative research 
October 25, 2012
 In 2011, the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) convened a Taskforce to consider the question of what standards and/or guidelines might be established for graduate programs offering degrees in conflict resolution, oriented towards "professional practice."  The
April 10, 2012
 Come get to know your fellow classmates, current students, faculty, and learn the expectations of the program.
August 17, 2011
Join the authors of:USIP Special Report: Graduate Education and Professional Practice in International Peace and Conflictfor a presentation and extended discussion on graduate education in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding. 
February 01, 2011
Colleagues, students, alumni and friends gathered to recognize Wallace's contributions to the scholarship and practice in conflict resolution and his dedication to the building of ICAR as a center of excellence in the field. 
April 30, 2010
Protecting Vulnerable Populations in "Country-Owned Development": Trends in Conflict and Development Hosted by the Graduate Certificate Program at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University
April 01, 2010
Conflict and social fragility are a reality for development programs around the globe, and USAID is actively seeking conflict management and mitigation training in development field personnel across the programmatic board. The Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution's certificate program is
November 15, 2009
Professor Sally Merry is Director of the Program on Law and Society and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at New York University Her most recent publications include Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective (Blackwell, 2008); The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global
March 26, 2009
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Webinar: “Forging Alliances for Peace: Insights from a Conflict Resolution Scholar-Practitioner”For those interested in being physically present, the event will take place at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Truland Building, Room 555, 3330 Washington Blvd, Arlington, VA
May 06, 2013
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