The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution

No Immunity for US Troops: Why Hamid Karzai Punted to Loya Jirga
The Business Argument for Addressing Climate Change
A look at the American 'Countering Violent Extremism' strategy
'Free Speech' on the DC Metro
Obama’s local, international obstacles on Syria
Community Activists Question Timing Of Grand Jury Announcement
Elizabeth Degi Mount - DBFA
‘Strength through peace – not peace through strength’: a reaction to Trump’s America First foreign policy
The Big Problems in Obama's Big Trade Deals
Using Israeli and Palestinian Guides, Tour Group Helps Visitors ‘Experience the People’
Will Republicans suggest an economic cure in Nevada?
Iran's Election Win Warrants U.S. Sanctions Rethink
Scholars skeptical on Japan apology
Democratic Party looks like America
The Dangers of Soft Power: Government backed cultural programs often come across as just propaganda
Mason Student Studies Emerging Protest Culture Over Land Rights Conflicts in Cambodia
Global Mayors Protest Trump’s Anti-Climate Cabinet
Nonviolent resistance key to Middle East breakthrough
Palestine's Right to Defend Itself
Spreading Peace, Block by Block: A North Philly neighborhood rallies around its youth
Did Bernie Sanders just steal Joe Lieberman’s Jewish crown?
Americans have had enough conflict
In Oak Creek, Wis., hearts open to Sikhs after temple shooting
Can Obama Influence Ethiopia on Human Rights, Democracy?
Streator Grads do 'Amazing Things'
Gun Bans Aren't the Only Answer to America's Violence Problem
Rethinking transitions: finding the pathway from military to community security
Civilian Devastation During War Explored in ‘Why They Die’
As New Threats Emerge, U.S. Closes Drone Base in Ethiopia
Public ‘schools of hope’ could be anything but
A Callous Disregard for the Law
Inspiring Curious Feminists: Reflections on Cynthia Enloe
The Obama administration ignores an American imprisoned in Egypt
Why Army women are demanding the right to fight — and die — in combat
Rand Paul Got It Right on ISIS
How to Have a Productive Conversation About Politics at Thanksgiving
Next Steps in Syria
Emerging Powers and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Liberia
The Ghailani Verdict - Susan Hirsch featured in the New York Times
At Town Hall, Sanders Makes Commitment to 'End All Forms of Racism in This Country'
Freed Egyptian American prisoner returns home following Trump intervention
Free West Papua: Growing International Solidarity for a Forgotten Independence Movement
More record warmth means more flooding: Column
Shank and Gilchrest: Increasing the Peace Can Reduce the Debt
How Women’s Rights Are Linked to U.S.-Iran Negotiations
Art Student Set to Send ‘Transformative’ Project Up in Flames on Mason Pond
The Path To Clean Energy Requires An Energy-Storage Revolution
Anacostia: Why I have faith in the future of my neighborhood
Jordan Valley essential for a viable Palestinian state
Soldiers Into Students: Veterans, Educators Try to Ease Transition
A third intifada is inevitable unless Israel changes course
Trump’s favorite dictator is jailing U.S. citizens
Advertising against Muslims? Not with my tax dollars
Ferguson, Social Justice, and the Role of Community Colleges
Higher education leans left. But why? And so what?
Six leading Libyan women dominate Virginia conference on Libya
America's police are looking more and more like the military
Saudi in Yemen; It’s personal now
Our Love-Hate Relationship With Frankenstorms and Hurricane Sandy and Why We Must End It
Mideast peace deal… and they lived unhappily ever after
A New United Nations of Human Rights Countries
Religion and Power Moving Forward into the Twenty-First Century
Why Washington is wrong to impose visa suspension on Iraqis
Military spending is not right way to boost America's economic security
Divestment-Investment Can Break Congressional Gridlock on Climate Change
Cyprus – the drama unfolds
Search – Côte d’Ivoire wins the Prize of Excellency
Republicans and the Mennonite vote
Congress vs. the Super-Pollutants
Donald Trump and the Politics of Personality: To Understand Trumpism, Look Abroad!
Getting to “E Pluribus Unum”
Why is the US so reticent to read the right messages in Asia and the Pacific?
U.S. Military Interventionism Has Harmed Iraq Dearly
Spread of US poverty risks serious social disorder
Administrative Referendum: A wakeup call for the ethno-political conflict in Darfur
Syria Conflict Panel
UC Berkeley holds 6th annual TED conference, explores themes of wisdom, compassion
Woodbridge Resident Gains White House Internship
A new look at climate change
Slavery and Climate – There's More in Common Than You Think, Vatican Says
Confronting genocide in Myanmar: The urgent need to prevent and protect
Marijuana cartels and the Mafia
Rituals of Gendered Violence: School Girl Kidnappings in Nigeria
Why defeating ISIS with military might is starry eyed idealism
Obama’s speech was more of the same - and not what we needed
A surprise from Trump’s first 100 days: His first international rescue was a Muslim woman
If America wants Assad to respect international law, it must respect it, too
A Fixable Problem for Our Society
Trump Should Take a Lesson From the Pope on How to Lead
Tea-Party, Progressives United on Fast-Track Trade Authority
The challenge of violent extremism
How Did VP Candidates Do in the Debate? Our Latino Panel Weighs In
Congress Can't Ignore Afghanistan in Budget Talks
Rwanda- A Country Still in Need
Mason Professors, Graduates Take Active Role in Latin American Conflicts
Muslim advocates welcome Bernie Sanders' support but want visible action
After Nearly Three Years, An American In Egypt Walks Free
Somalia on the Brink
Dirty Energy Dollars
When soldiers commit murder
Climate crisis and the will to act
Turkey's Best Asset to Tackle ISIS: Ankara or America?
A peace-building response to the rise of 'Trumpism'
Hurricane Sandy: Time to do something about climate change
America’s litmus test on Syria
With Mike Duvall, Fall of Another ‘Family Values’ Crusader
USIP Awards Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowships and Peace Scholarships for 2015-2016
A Mood Is Not A Movement: Five Ideas For The Anti-Trump Forces
Congress Should Scrutinize Pending Trade Pacts
The Audacity of Air Strikes and Secret Deals: Just making Isis grow stronger?
Candidates should address cost  of violence in primary states
Iran's Election Win Warrants U.S. Sanctions Rethink
Student Studies Connection of Abusive Treatment of Humans and Animals
Tale of Two Conventions: Why Charlotte Wins Over White Tampa
Time to write the rules for cyber and drone challenges
A New Model for American Foreign Policy
Mason Partners with Ghana-based African Peace Building Organization
Meryl Streep is right; bullying hurts us all
Darfur Donor Conference: A Park for a Deadly Conflict
Turning Training into Action: Mason Students Analyze a Conflict in Brazil
Youth from all areas of Philadelphia kick off Peace Olympics with March
Girls released from Boko Haram captivity rejected by society - new report
Drowning the Arab Spring in Gulf Oil
Mass shootings show need for gun law reform
Obama Arrives in Kenya, on Personal and Official Journey
Pro-Earth Republicans In The Era Of President Trump
Missing the mark on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy at MLK Avenue
Beyond the limits of counterterrorism: towards a peace and development agenda that can engage constructively with extremism
Peace – practical, not fanciful
Working for world peace here at home
Tariq Ramadan in Chicago's Holocaust Museum
Options for Action in Syria
Syria, Lebanon, and the Middle East: Enabling a War-to-Peace Transition
Police should put away the military gear and build connections with young people
Women in Combat
Albany Gets "F" for Failing to Protect Tenants
Mason intern ventures into rural Mexico conflict zone to practice mediation
Tackling the most grave and serious global security threats
The Harm in Hashtags
Wallace Warfield, George Mason professor and conflict resolution expert, dies
Bernie Sanders Vows To Fight Anti-Islam Sentiment: 2016 Democratic Presidential Candidate Hugs Muslim Woman On Stage
Egyptian-American activist Aya Hegazi returns to US following Egypt court acquittal
She Didn't Have a Gun... She Had MLK's Dream
Peace Parsha: Hayyei Sarah - Love and Care across Boundaries
Violence and violence-containment's $460 billion price tag
To save his Middle East legacy, Obama must recognise a Palestinian state now
Food insecurity rising as crop production falls
David N. Cicilline and Michael Shank: Global warming threatens R.I.
Congressmen urge Egypt to release Virginia woman from jail
GOP, follow Stevens' example
Small town America shouldn't resemble war zone
New Norm on Human Rights Emerging in Bolivia
Ryan Gosling spreads message from Bernie Sanders
Court clears American aid worker after 3 years behind bars in Egypt
A New Approach to Dealing With Global Food Insecurity
Responding to Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Is Religious Freedom the Answer?
Germany's lesson for U.S. -- keep faith with workers
Past a certain point conflict becomes unstoppable
Freeport's Highland Community College board will seat Shockey and Musser
Our Prejudicial and Political Pecking Order
The three-ring circus of American politics
PCDN's Dr. Catalina Rojas awarded the prestigious SXSW Dewey Award for use of digital technology to help others
The Russian Military Intervention in Syria; Is This Really a Concern for the U.S.?
It's the Arab spring for dictators
To stop sexual assault against women in the US military, add more women
The Meaning of Freedom
What My Amish and Mennonite Forefathers Would Think About My Job in Congress (and Why I Left)
How Egypt’s most famous jailed couple celebrated Valentine’s Day
How to fix our police departments
What Paul Ryan’s economic roadmap means for America
Crisis management system for Japan and China
Meat Alert
Arab Americans Organize with the ANSWER Coalition to Protest Trump Inauguration
Rand Paul's Filibuster Gives Civil Liberties A Rare Washington Moment
The U.S. Is No. 1 In Global Arms Sales
The Israeli ex-settler at the center of Occupy Wall Street
The NYC Security Risk That Candidates Aren't Discussing
Trust in Maliki harms U.S. credibility
9 Costs of Drone Strikes
Fallacy of a moderate mullah
Vatican Mayors Summit Spots Pope on Municipal Pulpit
Sorry, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Rohingya Crisis Is No Laughing Matter
Preventing gang violence in San Diego
Dear Congress: Take Your Power Back
When nature trumps nurture, we all lose
Mason experts explain how ISIS attacks are recruitment tools
Keeping USAID: why the US shouldn’t cut off its nose
Charlie Rangel: Why I Oppose Syria Strikes
Fighting extremism: Dignity is the answer
Hillary Clinton’s Response to the Pulse Orlando Shootings
UN climate change negotiations in Poland this week
Evolving policy in a changing world: Examining challenges and opportunities in the new US Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review
My sister has been jailed in Egypt for 900 days. When will the U.S. help free her?
‘Amish Mafia’ is a shameful, unrealistic portrayal of plain people
U.S.-E.U. Rhetoric on Russia as Destructive as a Chekhovian Duel
One Week After Colorado Shooting, US Government Still Failing to Safeguard America
Bernie Sanders vows to fight Islamophobia and 'ugly stain of racism' in the US
Reimagining Transitional Justice in Bali
What Would MLK Think of America’s Modern Wars?
Detroit On The Brink
Bringing Florida to Justice, Not Just George Zimmerman
Militarization of U.S. Police Forces
Insights Obama can now use to undermine Putin’s narrative
Moving Beyond Hope: The IOC and Team Refugee
How to stop the stone-throwing in Anacostia
'Less Violent' Does Not Have to Mean 'Apathetic'
Inevitable US policy shift on Burma: why and how
'Tribunal' Opens Hearings Into Mass Killings in Indonesia
How one liberal group is trying to help Democrats win back the House in 2018
The Real War on Coal Starts in Kosovo
Yemen is on the Brink of Chaos - And Why It's So Important
New Virginia gun law will boost violence, costs
Crashing in America
The Next Step for Myanmar
Terrorism and Development
We Must Revive the American Dream by Alleviating Poverty
Jobs: A Human Right | Commentary
Cost of inaction will be great
Settler Terrorism -- An American Problem
Feckless on Foreign Policy
Addressing DC's truancy epidemic
Gaza becomes Syria: Middle East geopolitics 2.0
Afghan civil society calls for just peace
Aya Hegazy trial postponed for 5th time after court unable to turn on laptop
Paul Ryan's Radical Economic Regime: Why His House Budget Legacy Is a Lesson in Elitism
Police Should Put Away the Military Gear and Build Connections with Young People
Expect Resource Wars With Exxon CEO At State Helm
Female soldiers fight Pentagon in court for combat positions
Karina V. Korostelina's "Political Insults"
Republican Reasoning: Why 2008 Was the Year for Occupying and Protesting Wall Street
The Missing Ingredient in UN's 2030 Global Goals
Look to Iran for a solution in Syria
Syria's Next Generation
Gilbert gunman's rampage sheds light on extremism: Immigration issue is a beacon to neo-Nazis
Addressing divide between communities and police
Women in combat: US military on verge of making it official
The Saudis and the Iranians Need to Talk: And we need to make it happen
Resolute in uncertain times: peacebuilding in the new US administration
In fighting gangs, US should look to El Salvador
Why D.C. should take Youth Court program off life support
What will Rep. Dennis Kucinich's legacy be?
Why Bernie Sanders is standing with Muslims
Who is Aya Hijazi, the American freed from jail in Egypt?
Syria Needs Real Help, Not American Bombs
Yemen’s a Model All Right—For Disaster
Robert C. Koehler: Healthy conflict creates resilient communities
Why NFL's Washington Redskins needs renaming
GMU Student Burns Pagoda For Senior Art Project
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry denounces US calls for Aya Hegazy’s release
Interreligious Intercultural Dialogue Institutionalized - Deja Vu All Over Again
How to save the American Dream
Water shortages are coming. It's time for us to act.
WATCH: Bernie Sanders hugs Muslim student, vows to fight racism as Jew
American Aid Worker Is Cleared of Child Abuse Charges in Egypt
Busting the Biofuels Boom
Police Militarization Must Be Halted
The Indoctrination Myth
Why the Kerry-Karzai Afghan Security Deal Won't Work
Confederate flag: hatred or heritage?
Why We Heart Hurricanes: The Climate Change Connection
Is America turning into a failed state?
Nato should negotiate a security structure that includes Russia
Aziz Abu Sarah – Ending the Cycle of Violence in Israel and Palestine
یەریڤان سەعید، توێژەر لە پەیمانگای وڵاتانی كەنداو لە واشنتۆن:
How U.S. War Funds Get Wasted ... And How to Stop It
Stop the ISIS War Before It Gets Worse!
Measuring the cost of violence
Mason students discuss Islamophobia
High school students learn conflict resolution through karate
Political Discourse: A Family Affair
U.S. Credibility Around the World Damaged by Afghanistan War
A Cultural Awakening Leads to Abundance of Conflict Resolution Opportunities
Egypt’s Street Children, Aya Hijazi, and Me
Sequester set to sock it to D.C.’s poorest
UN Small Arms Conference: Evaluation and Prospects
Why Qaddafi's Death Is Significant
The Federal response in Malheur and far right extremism
7 Ways Obama's U.N. Speech Revealed His Inconsistent Foreign Policy
We must make anti-bullying a mainstream message
Use US soft power to free the Ashraf Seven
Muslim Women Find Empowerment Through Competitive Sports
Cardin Meets with Egyptian Foreign Minister
Nigeria: A Network That Reconnects North With Sardauna's Biographer John Paden
Promoting peace, locally and globally
Peace is profitable: time for the US to invest
Mason student researches homelessness from a conflict perspective
The Coaching Revolution in the Federal Government
Press Pause on the Rush to War
George Mason to cultivate global leaders
Teach, model, grow and live in empathy to build world peace, says interfaith expert Marc Gopin at Frontier Luncheon
Suffolk reservist sues over ban on women in combat
Texas flood's climate change irony: Column
After 900 days in pre-trial detention, campaigns call for release of Aya Hegazy
Obama making up drone rules as he goes
Dirt on Our Hands
Unite, Confuse, and Inspire: A Response to the Rise of Racism in Israel
Inclusiveness: The Right (and Political) Way to Be
Former Del. Jim Scott remembered for selfless public service
The Struggle for Independence in West Papua
9/11 Forever (and Ever)
What the Killing of Trayvon Martin Means for Maryland
Counter-Revolutions and Evolutions: Lessons of Egypt and Iran
Scars of the Khmer Rouge: How Cambodia is healing from a genocide
Hillary Clinton Asks Egypt’s President Sisi to Release Aya Hijazi
The District’s Divide: Classism, Racism and the Re-Election of Marion Barry
Here's Why The U.S. Needs To Upgrade Economic Indicators
Lone wolf senator builds case to engage Myanmar
ISIS attacks fueled by illegal guns and open societies we can’t afford to lose
Lawmakers in Washington increasingly concerned about Ethiopia
Let's keep Syria's blood off America's hands
Why Hong Kong's #OccupyCentral Used Nonviolent Action as Tactic
The 'anti-science' side of the political divide
What Do We Mean When We Say "Clean Energy"?
Five Steps America Must Take Now to Combat Climate Change
NYC Housing: A Clear and Present Danger
Sit down with Iran to ensure there is no ‘October surprise’
Saving District of Columbia’s Youth Court
Author, Terrorism Victim Hirsch Says Capital Punishment Hurts U.S. Image Abroad
How Did Democratic Candidates Do? Our Latino Panel Weighs In
Athletes Pick A Side At The Women's March
Immigration debate: How DC can move the conversation forward
Africa Needs More from Obama than Promises
Eight ingredients for a peaceful society
25 Rights groups: The Belady Foundation case demonstrates that individual and community initiatives face only repression and fabricated charges
Only catastrophes lead to the sharing of sovereignty
Mason’s Michael Shank Joins White House Climate Change Group
THE RUSSIAN PLOT, Or, How to Avoid Taking Responsibility for Losing a Presidential Election
Anacostia totem pole belies Washington’s devotion to Redskins
Solon Simmons' "The Eclipse of Equality"
A Palestinian drasha for Rosh Hashana
Academics & Activists Discuss Poverty, Inequality, Conflict
Mary Wade to Hold Trayvon Book Launch in MT Airy
How to Fix Turkey's Fall From International Favor
When Washington Welcomes A Nonviolent Muslim: What CBS News and Congress Have In Common
Women sue Pentagon over combat exclusion
USDA Does Diets Differently, Moves Off Meat
The Time For Leadership To Protect All Civilians Across Syria
Prop. 35 tackles child sex-trafficking
Duly Elected Tyranny: Recovering Democracy in the Age of Majority Abuses
Ghailani Trial and Sentence Affirms US Federal Court System
Mason student’s question to Democratic presidential candidate goes viral
A surprise from Trump’s first 100 days: His first international rescue was a Muslim woman
What Are the Rules of War?
A Palestinian’s journey from stone-throwing to conflict resolution
Our Military Shouldn’t Turn Its Back on Servicewomen Who Need an Abortion
No Iran deal, but significant progress in Geneva
Britain’s election results may prove to be a blow to US foreign policy goals
The highest high and the lowest low: Colombian’s NO to the peace agreement or how to deeply hurt hope in 24 hours or less
‘Lincoln’: Where was Frederick Douglass?
A Budget for Working America
Trump got Egypt to free an American prisoner. Here’s her story.
Bernie Sanders Vows To Fight Back Against Islamophobia In The 2016 Race
Beyer Statement On Acquittal of Aya Hijazi and Her Co-Defendants in Egypt
Our moral obligations in Somalia
Go After Super Pollutants
Indian Guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Hopes to Teach Peace to the Taliban

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