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Principal Investigator Visit Dr. Hirsch's Faculty page
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| Susan F. Hirsch, a cultural anthropologist, is a Professor in the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR) at George Mason University and Affiliate Faculty in GMU’s Gender and Women’s Studies Program. A former Director of S-CAR’s Undergraduate Program, she is Principal Investigator for the UELP. Her teaching interests include conflict theory, discourse analysis, qualitative methods, and sociolegal studies. Her publications include Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Difference in an African Islamic Court and In the Moment of Greatest Calamity: Terrorism, Grief, and a Victim’s Quest for Justice. Her current book project (with Dr. Frank Dukes) focuses on conceptualizing stakeholders in the conflict over surface mining in Appalachia. Her research interests and public speaking topics include debates over justice as a response to acts of terrorism and mass atrocity, controversies over Islamic law in the post-911 era, the politics of capital punishment and victims’ rights, and new forms of global justice. | |
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| Agnieszka Paczynska is an Associate Professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR) at George Mason University and Associate Faculty at GMU’s Center for Global Studies. The Director of the Undergraduate Program in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, she is Co-Principal Investigator for the UELP. Her teaching interests include conflict theory, qualitative research methods, globalization, and international conflict. In addition to a monograph titled State, Labor, and the Transition to a Market Economy: Egypt, Poland, Mexico and the Czech Republic (Penn State University Press, 2009), she has published articles and book chapters on conflict and economic development, globalization, and post-conflict reconstruction. Her current research and book project focuses on post-conflict reconstruction in Liberia, and she speaks widely on political transformation in the Middle East and political economy in relation to conflict. | |
| Lisa Elaine Shaw UELP Faculty Visit Lisa Shaw's Faculty page
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Lisa Shaw is the Experiential Learning Director for the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and an adjunct faculty member. As project faculty for UELP, she focuses on the development and dissemination of Service Learning Intensives. She co-facilitates the Liberia: Post Conflict Peace- building in Liberia field experience. A former Undergraduate Student Services Director, she has focused on experiential learning in multiple forms, including internships and interactive classroom activities. GMU’s Peer Mediation Partners was developed under her leadership. Her teaching includes conflict resolution practice and a seminar on post-conflict reconstruction in Liberia. | |
| Patricia Maulden UELP Faculty |
Patricia A. Maulden is Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and Director of the Dialogue and Difference Project with the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. As project faculty for UELP, she focuses on the development and dissemination of Service Learning Intensives. She co-facilitates the Liberia: Post Conflict Peace-building field experience. Her teaching includes conflict resolution practice, conflict and identity, and a seminar on post-conflict reconstruction in Liberia. | |
| Mara Schoeny Ph.D UELP Faculty |
| Mara Schoeny is Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution and Director of the Graduate Certificate Program with the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. As project faculty for UELP, she focuses on the development and dissemination of Experiential Learning Activities and is particularly concerned with developing techniques for evaluation and assessment. Her teaching includes community and organizational conflict, research methods, and evaluation. | |
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Leslie Dwyer Ph.D. UELP Faculty |
| Leslie Dwyer is Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Anthropology with the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. As project faculty for UELP, her focus is on the development, testing, and dissemination of Service Learning Intensives. She brings considerable experience in innovative experiential education programs and has run a highly successful hands-on research methods course in Indonesia in collaboration with local faculty and students. A cultural anthropologist by training, she has conducted research on political conflict and post-conflict trauma and healing and written widely on these and related issues. Her teaching includes conflict theory, identity and conflict, and research methods. | |
| Andrea Bartoli, Ph.D. UELP Faculty Visit Dr. Bartoli's Faculty page
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Andrea Bartoli is the Dean of the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, where he holds the Drucie French Cumbie Chair. His research interests include genocide prevention, complexity theory, and conflict practice. As project faculty for UELP, he is involved in a wide range of project activities, including the dissemination of project findings to the broader conflict field community. | |
| Paul Snodgrass UELP Faculty (Knowledge Management) Visit Paul Snodgrass's profile page |
Paul Snodgrass is the Technology and Knowledge Management Director at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and an administrative faculty member. As Project Faculty with UELP, he advises on technology and knowledge management issues. He holds a Master’s degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from GMU. He focuses on the role of media and communication technologies in public policy discourse, dissemination of conflict resolution methodologies and ideas, and building collaboration and teaches a course entitled New Media, Social Networking, and Conflict Resolution. | |
| Andria Wisler UELP Evaluator
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Andria Wisler is Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of the Program on Justice and Peace at Georgetown University. Her training is in comparative and international education and philosophy, and her scholarship includes attention to peace knowledge as intellectual heritage and focuses on the development of peace studies in post-Yugoslav higher education. She collaborates on research on the ethics of research during and after violent conflict. She has professional experience in running and evaluating educational programs, including in Turkey and Turkmenistan. Andria is co-editing a book on “Peace Education Evaluation” (Information Age Press, Spring 2012). As evaluator for UELP, she is involved in evaluation and assessment of all aspects of the project. She accompanied the Liberia: Post Conflict Peace-building Service Learning Intensive as the evaluator. | |
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UELP Graduate Research Assistant |
Gina Cerasani is a Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Lecturer with the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. As a graduate teaching assistant for the UELP, her focus is on creating, testing, and disseminating experiential learning activities, particularly two that dealt with the conflict over mining in Appalachia. Her teaching interests include social group conflict dynamics, experiential conflict analysis, and student-centered learning. Her research focuses on immigration, poverty and race in the U.S., community peacebuilding, peace and conflict discourses, peace and conflict resolution education, and engaged scholarship. | |
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| Ned Lazarus is a FIPSE Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at S-CAR. Ned earned his doctorate in International Relations from American University's School of International Service in 2011. His dissertation, entitled Evaluating Peace Education in the Oslo-Intifada Generation, tracks the peacebuilding activity of more than 800 Israeli and Palestinian graduates of the Seeds of Peace program from adolescence through adulthood. The study highlights the effects of changing personal, organizational and conflict contexts on graduates’ participation in cross-conflict peacebuilding over periods of 8-15 years. For his research, Ned was awarded an SIS dissertation fellowship from American University, a "Peace Scholar" fellowship from the United States Institute of Peace, and a Visiting Researcher appointment at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. | |
 | Dhirendra Nalbo UELP Graduate Research Assistant
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| Dhirendra Nalbo, a native of Nepal, is a S-CAR PhD student and a Graduate Research Assistant at UELP. He received his MA in Conflict Resolution (with Merit) from the University of Bradford, UK and most recently worked with the International Crisis Group. His research interests include natural resource and conflict and how conflict analysis and resolution as a pedagogical practice can be enhanced for preventing social conflicts. | |
Former UELP members
Linda Keuntje
Sigrid Nuckolls
Lori-Anne Stephensen
Molly Tepper
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