ICAR Commonwealth Center of Excellence

The Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution has been designated a Virginia Commonwealth Center for Excellence and awarded $325,000 by the Virginia State Assembly. This award will be used to expand ICAR core faculty and to provide graduate student support.

The Virginia State Council of Higher Education's Commonwealth Center Award is in recognition of ICAR's "existing excellence in its interdisciplinary field," and for ICAR and its faculty's "top ranking in the field, both nationally and internationally." The council has stated that the "essential attribute with which a Commonwealth Center is identified is knowledge its discovery, development, application, and transfer to students and others for enlightenment, further analysis, refinement, and use."