The Advisory Board of the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University meets on the second Wednesday of every month, throughout the academic year. The 2016-2017AY meeting schedule is as follows:
2016
9/21/2016 (3rd Wednesday)
10/12/2016 (2nd Wednesday)
11/2/2016 (1nd Wednesday)
12/14/2016 (2nd Wednesday)
2017
1/25/2017 (4th Wednesday)
2/15/2017 (3rd Wednesday)
3/8/2017 (2nd Wednesday)
4/12/2017 (2nd Wednesday)
5/12/2017 (2nd Wednesday)
6/14/2017 (2nd Wednesday)
The agenda for the upcoming month's meeting can be found below.
Please contact Mr. Sixte Vigny Nimuraba, the Secretary of the board, at [email protected] with any questions.
8:00 a.m.
Welcome Remarks - Robert Nealon
Approval of Minutes - Robert Nealon
Report of S-CAR Dean - Kevin Avruch
Report of S-CAR Director of Development - Maria Seniw
Advisory Board Retreat - Robert Nealon
History Committee Update - Alan Gropman
Nominating Committee - K.C. Soares
Point of View Fundraiser Event Committee - Robert Nealon
Report of Speaker Series Committee - Christine McCann
Report of Faculty Board Representative - Patricia Maulden
Reports of Student Representatives - ..........
Discussion of Old Business
Discussion of New Business
9:30 a.m. Meeting Adjourns
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bert B. Nealon (Chair): Robert B. Nealon is the Senior Partner of Nealon & Associates, P.C. He has earned the top AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell. He has practiced with this firm, in various incarnations, for over 30 years, and has maintained offices at the 119 North Henry Street building throughout since 1984. Mr. Nealon practices primarily in the areas of corporate law and litigation, commercial litigation, government relations, financial institution law, real estate law, and tax law. In the course of his career, Mr. Nealon has represented hundreds of companies and served as general corporate counsel to many nationwide and international companies, commercial development and high technology asset companies, financial institutions, and a wide variety of small businesses. In addition to the juris doctorate degree he received in 1982 from the University of Bridgeport magna cum laude, Mr. Nealon holds a masters of business administration in finance from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a masters of law in taxation from Georgetown University. Mr. Nealon is a member of the Virginia and New York state bars, and is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and U.S. District Court and Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia; and the District of Columbia. Additionally, he has litigated in the Delaware Court of Chancery to pursue matters in corporate litigation and has been qualified as an expert in Delaware corporate law as well. Mr. Nealon has formerly served as chairman on boards of the Virginia Small Business Advisory Board and currently serves as the Chairman of the Advising Board to the George Mason University School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.
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John W. McDonald: Ambassador (ret.) John W. McDonald is a lawyer, diplomat, former international civil servant, development expert and peacebuilder, concerned about world social, economic and ethnic problems. He spent twenty years of his diplomatic career in Western Europe and the Middle East and worked for sixteen years on United Nations economic and social affairs. He is currently Chairman and co-founder (1992) of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, in Washington D.C., which focuses on national and international ethnic conflicts, including the Millennium goals of clean drinking water and sanitation. He also is UNEP's North American Representative to the International Environmental Governance Advisory Group. McDonald retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 1987, after a 40 year diplomatic career. In 1987-88, he became a Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. He was Senior Advisor to George Mason University's Center for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and taught and lectured at the Foreign Service Institute and the Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs. From December, 1988, to January, 1992, McDonald was President of the Iowa Peace Institute in Grinnell, Iowa and was a Professor of Political Science at Grinnell College. . In February, 1992, he was named Distinguished Visiting Professor at George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, in Fairfax, Virginia. Before his retirement from the State Department in 1987, McDonald joined in 1983 the State Department's newly formed Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs as its Coordinator for Multilateral Affairs, and lectured and organized symposia on the art of negotiation, multilateral diplomacy and international organizations. From 1978-83, he carried out a wide variety of assignments for the State Department in the area of multilateral diplomacy. He was President of the INTELSAT World Conference called to draft a treaty on privileges and immunities; leader of the U.S. Delegation to the UN World Conference on Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries, in Buenos Aires in 1978; Secretary General of the 27th Colombo Plan Ministerial Meeting; head of the U.S. Delegation which negotiated a UN Treaty Against the Taking of Hostages; U.S. Coordinator for the UN Decade on Drinking Water and Sanitation; head of the U.S. Delegation to UNIDO III in New Delhi in 1980; Chairman of the Federal Inter-Agency Committee for the UN's International Year of Disabled Persons, 1981; U.S. Coordinator and head of the U.S. Delegation for the UN's World Assembly on Aging, in Vienna, in 1982. From 1974-78, he was Deputy Director General of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland, a UN Agency, with responsibility for managing that agency's 3,200 person Secretariat, coming from 102 countries, with programs in 120 member nations, and an annual budget of $135 million. From 1947-1974, Ambassador McDonald held various State Department assignments in Berlin, Frankfurt, Bonn, Paris, Washington D.C., Ankara, Tehran, Karachi, and Cairo. Ambassador McDonald holds both a B.A. and a J.D. degree from the University of Illinois, and graduated from the National War College in 1967. He has written and co-edited ten books and numerous articles on negotiation and conflict resolution, and makes more than 100 speeches a year. He was appointed Ambassador twice by President Carter and twice by President Reagan to represent the United States at various UN World Conferences.
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Alan Gropman: Dr. Alan L. Gropman taught at the National Defense University for 20 years. He is an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution teaching Grand Strategy in Peace and War, and is a member of the School’s Advisory Board, and former Chairman. He is The Distinguished Professor Emeritus for National Security Policy at the National Defense University. He served 27 years in the United States Air Force and accumulated more than 4,000 flying hours including two combat flying tours in Vietnam. He was Director of Military History Instruction at the United States Air Force Academy and Vice Dean of Faculty at the National War College. He served several tours in various Headquarters, including the Pentagon. He taught as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University for 8 years in the Strategic Studies Program. He has written four books and more than 350 book reviews, anthology chapters, OP-ED essays, articles in refereed journals, and currently a monthly article on Think Tank outputs for more than six years. He has taught six courses for Oser Life Long Learning Institute. He can be reached at [email protected] and 703 569 1549 or
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Francis J. Duggan: Frank Duggan was recently elected President of the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, Inc, the organization of families of those who perished in the bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. He has represented this group without charge for 20 years and was instrumental in their receiving some $2.7 billion in compensation from the government of Libya. He also serves on the Board of the Cheney Cardiac Institute at George Washington Hospital in Washington DC, and is Chairman of the Head Injury Rehabilitation and Research Service in Rockville, Maryland. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Duggan served as a Board member and Chairman of the National Mediation Board (NMB), appointed by President Clinton and confirmed twice by the Senate. The NMB is an independent agency that performs a central role in facilitating harmonious labor-management relations within two of the nation's key transportation modes – the railroads and airlines. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Duggan was an attorney with the Washington law firm of Mullenholz, Brimsek and Belair. For ten years he represented the Association of American Railroads on Capitol Hill, and, from 1989-90, served on the Presidents Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism. He has been Chairman of the Transportation Section of the Federal Bar Association and an officer of the Washington Foreign Law Society, as well as numerous Bar committees and law enforcement positions. He was a Reserve Deputy Sheriff for twelve years, is a certified Police Firearms Instructor and active in the Fairfax Rod and Gun Club. Mr. Duggan was a Presidential appointee at the Labor Department during the Ford and Reagan Administrations, serving as Assistant Secretary in the Reagan administration. He worked in the Senate on the Labor Committee and in the office of former Senator Charles Mathias (R-MD), and in the House for Rep. William Steiger (R-WI). He was also the Director of Operations of the Legal Services Program in the Office of Economic Opportunity, and Senior Legislative Manager of the US Department of the Treasury. After attending St. John's College and Law School in New York, Mr. Duggan received two graduate political science fellowships and a research grant from Harvard University. He has three grown children and lives with his wife, Faye Padgett, in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia.
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Mark D. Sickles: Mark Sickles has represented the 43rd House District – now including Franconia, Kingstowne, Huntington, Lorton, and Ft. Belvoir neighborhoods of South Fairfax County – since 2004. He currently serves on the Appropriations Committee, including its Higher Education, Transportation, and Health subcommittees, the Health, Welfare, and Institutions Committee, and the Privileges and Elections Committee. From 2011 to 2014, he served as Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. As a part-time legislator, he works full-time for a national marine construction company based in Metropolitan New York. He has two Masters Degrees from Georgia Tech and a B.S. from Clemson University. In civic life, he was appointed by Supervisor Joe Alexander and Supervisor Dana Kauffman to the Fairfax County Library Board, serving for 11 years and one term as Chairman. In his two years as Chairman (1998-2000), Mark oversaw the opening of a new library in Kingstowne and the development of a ten-year capital improvement plan that resulted in the renovation of the Richard Byrd and Martha Washington libraries and acquisition of over seven acres for the future development of a regional library on Beulah Street near Manchester Boulevard. He also served as President of United Community Ministries – a social-service non-profit providing employment services, aid to the homeless, and high-quality daycare to low-income children – during a six-year term on its board. He is currently on the Aerospace Advisory Council and the George Mason University of Conflict Analysis and Resolution’s (S-CAR) Advisory Board. He is an active member of the Bioscience Caucus. He was formerly a member of the Substance Abuse Services Council, and the Commission on Military and National Security Facilities.
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Robert Harris: Dr. Robert Harris is an expert conflict management professional with over 25 years’ experience designing and implementing organizational change and employee engagement initiatives; conducting interpersonal, group, and organizational interventions to resolve sensitive and complex workplace conflicts; and developing and teaching conflict management and dispute resolution courses.
He currently serves as the Internal Ombudsman in the Office of the Chairman at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). In this role, he works to improve individual and organizational issues by helping resolve individual employee concerns; working with management to resolve issues within their areas, and raising systemic issues with the Chairman and senior leadership. Dr. Harris also manages the FDIC’s Workplace Excellence Program and Labor Management Forum. Both initiatives seek to further improve the FDIC’s workplace environment.
Prior to joining the FDIC, Dr. Harris served as the Conflict Management Services Manager at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). He directed an agency-wide conflict management program to enhance organizational effectiveness, improve conflict management and cooperative problem solving competence, reduce employee distractions, and increase employee engagement at all levels. He also managed or developed numerous employee advisory councils including TSA’s National Advisory Council (NAC) and NAC Network.
Before TSA, Dr. Harris specialized in developing and implementing conflict resolution programs for educators and youth. He worked for nearly a decade developing and coordinating an integrated conflict resolution system in Fairfax County Public Schools (Fairfax County, Virginia). His international experience includes working with educators and youth from Bosnia, Central Asia, Cyprus, Georgia/Abkhazia, Indonesia, the Middle East, Northern Ireland, and South Korea. His curriculum materials have been translated into Russian, Indonesian, Arabic, and Korean.
Dr. Harris earned his doctorate from George Mason University's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. His research focused on peer mediator modeling and disputant learning.
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Mary Jo Larson: Mary Jo Larson provides consulting services to international, multilateral, and private sector organizations. Qualifications include a Doctor of Philosophy in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University. Areas of expertise include strategy formulation, multi-stakeholder partnerships, board leadership, cross-cultural communication, experiential adult learning, corporate responsibility, energy and environmental negotiations, developmental evaluation and sustainability. Relevant experiences include:
· Advisory Board Member, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University (2012-present); Member, Town of Cohasset’s Alternative Energy Committee (2014-present).
· Facilitator of strategic leadership and learning for Global Corporate Governance Group of IFC/World Bank, USAID and various international NGOs. Assignments include transnational programs in over 35 countries / emerging economies. (2005-present)
· Senior Advisor to Boards of Directors of public-private sector partnership of Health Policy Project (HPP) in Afghanistan (2013-14); Senior Advisor for strategic planning of multi-stakeholder youth leadership and conservation program in West Bank (2005-2006); Senior Project Director and Interim Chief of Party for EDC in Kabul, Afghanistan to facilitate strategic planning among Afghan Ministries, USAID and UN Habitat for university and provincial women’s literacy, leadership and enterprise development partnership (2004).
· Director, Global Women’s Leadership program funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Advanced regional leadership and capacity building to enhance performance and impact of key personnel in local clinics and health organizations, including candidates in Afghanistan and the Middle East (2001-2004).
· Former Peace Corps Volunteer (1972-74). Later served as Peace Corps Education Sector Specialist to advance environmental education (1991-93) and then as Chief of Programming and Training for the Asia Pacific Region of Peace Corps (1994-1997).
· Working with multi-disciplinary teams, co-authored Culture Matters (Peace Corps); Advancing Women’s Leadership (funded by Gates Foundation); Corporate Governance Board Leadership Training Resources; Governing Banks; and Resolving Corporate Governance Disputes (three funded by IFC/World Bank).
· Lead author of “Cape Wind: Offshore Renewable Energy Conflict,” chapter in edited book published by Springer (May 2015); “Board Evaluation: Insights from India,” an IFC/World Bank publication (upcoming 2015); and Peace Corps’ “Student Friendly Schools,” a program that prepares volunteers and their counterparts to address gender-based violence (2012).
· Other affiliations include: Completed Advanced Mediator program organized by MIT and Consensus Building Institute (CBI); Advisor for Peacebuilding Evaluation Project of Alliance for Peacebuilding; Board member, Peace and Conflict Review at the University for Peace established by the United Nations in Costa Rica; Lead facilitator for international Climate Change and Vulnerability conference at The Peace Palace of The Hague; and Visiting faculty teaching “Environmental Conflict Resolution Strategies,” Columbia University (NYC).
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Michael Shank: Michael Shank, Ph.D., is the Director of Media Strategy at Climate Nexus in New York City. Previously, Michael served as the Associate Director for Legislative Affairs at the Friends Committee on National Legislation and, prior to that, as US Congressman Michael Honda’s Senior Policy Advisor and Communications Director. Michael’s Ph.D. from George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution is on Climate Conflict.
Michael is Adjunct Faculty and a Board Member at George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Board Member at Communities Without Boundaries International and Youth Court of DC, and Senior Fellow at the JustJobs Network and the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict.
Michael is a former columnist for the Washington Post and US News & World Report, a regular contributor to USA Today, The Guardian, Newsweek, among others, and is an on-air analyst for CNN, FOX News, CCTV, Al Jazeera, and RT.
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K.C. Soares: K. C. Soares is a Senior Consultant in management, organization development and institution building, and human capacity building, and executive coaching. She is also a Visiting Professor at the School of Management, Federal University of Bahia, in Brazil, where she is collaborating with them in the areas of innovation and globalization of the School. She worked for over 18 years in the Organization of American States in social and income generating projects and was responsible for the OAS Center for Training and Development. She has worked in Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
K. C. serves on several Boards of Directors, in addition to S-CAR Board of Advisors, including – Chair, OAS Federal Credit Union; the Founding President of IODA-International Organization Development Association; The Amani Institute; and, Partnership for Sustainable Peace. She has taught at the School of Management, Federal University of Bahia in Brazil where she currently holds a research grant; Howard University, School of Business, Washington, D.C.; and, Virginia Tech University, School of Business, Northern Virginia campus.
She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University and speaks Portuguese, Spanish, and English.
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Kerry McKenney: Kerry McKenney was named Vice President of the Monument-Strategies firm after three decades of public service on Capitol Hill. She began her career in the personal Congressional office of Agriculture Subcommittee Chairman Dawson Mathis of Georgia, later moving on to become Legislative Director to Representative Wayne Dowdy of Mississippi, a member of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee. In that position, she also served as liaison to the Veterans Affairs' Subcommittee, which the Congressman chaired. In recent years she served as Chief of Staff to the late Representative Donald M. Payne of New Jersey, a senior member of the Education and Labor Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee, where he served as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health. As Chief of Staff, she represented Chairman Payne on various international visits to areas of Asia, Europe and Africa. She also served as Press Secretary, and in that capacity appeared on CNN, Fox News and other media outlets during the crisis in Somalia. She recently appeared on the Maryland Public Television program The Next Word to discuss her work with the Niall Mellon Townships Initiative, a non-profit whose mission is to build homes to replace shacks in the townships of South Africa. As a Congressional staffer, Kerry was successful in helping secure federal appropriations for a number of projects in New Jersey, including key funding for several transportation projects. She also advised Chairman Payne on issues related to the Northern Ireland peace process following the Good Friday accord. Kerry is active in a number of organizations. While working on Capitol Hill, she served on the Board of the bipartisan House Chiefs of Staff and prior to that, the Congressional Legislative Staff Association. An active volunteer, she currently serves on the Board of Nyumbani, a charity dedicated to the care of abandoned and orphaned children impacted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Kenya. She is also on the Advisory Board of the South Africa-Washington International Program and is associated with a number of Irish American groups, including the American Ireland Fund and the Washington Ireland Program. She was recognized as Outstanding Volunteer by Everybody Wins, a reading program serving Washington, D.C. youngsters. In addition, she received the Ed Krenik Award from the Cancer Institute of New Jersey in recognition of her work to help establish the Dean & Betty Gallo Prostate Cancer Center.
She is a graduate of the University of Delaware, where she held an editorial position on the college newspaper, The Review.
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Robert W. Scott: Rob Scott is a mediator and attorney active in providing a broad range of dispute resolution services and conflict resolution related training for many years. His experience includes the direct provision of a variety of conflict resolution services including mediation, ombuds, conflict coaching, climate assessment, group facilitation, and public participation process design and facilitation. His experience includes the development and management of dispute systems and programs and the supervision of mediation and conflict resolution service delivery in courts, communities, organizations, and agencies. Rob currently serves as the Deputy Director for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Rob joined the staff of the FEMA ADR Office in 2005 to support the creation and ongoing management of its ADR Cadre. The ADR Cadre is a team of 40-50 conflict resolution professionals that delivers ADR and organizational ombuds services at disaster field offices across the country. Prior to joining the staff at FEMA, Rob served as the Executive Director of the Northern Virginia Mediation Service (NVMS) for more than 10 years. At NVMS he developed or expanded a number of community and court-connected mediation programs as well as supervised the organization's delivery of mediation services to more than 1200 mediation clients per year and the training of more than 900 participants in mediation and conflict resolution skills. He has provided mediation services as part of a number of panels including the NVMS family and court mediation program, Supreme Court of Virginia certified mediator list, Virginia Fair Housing Office, U.S. Department of Justice's Americans with Disabilities Act mediation program, and the Prince William County, Virginia, Restorative Justice Program. Rob graduated from Drexel University and the University of Baltimore School Of Law and began the practice of law in 1980. He is admitted to practice law in Virginia and the District of Columbia. He later attended George Mason University where he received his master's degree in Conflict Management in 1990. He has taught mediation skills as an adjunct instructor at George Mason University, where he also serves on the Advisory Board for the School for Conflict Analysis & Resolution.
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Richard C. O'Brien: Richard O’Brien is the author of the upcoming In Case of Genocide – Break Glass: How we end Genocidal Indifference, 2015 on which he draws from his experience as Director of the Center for the Prevention of Genocide (CPG) to tell stories of lifesaving early warning actions. The book includes a comprehensive ‘Genocide Prevention Manual’ that genocide scholars are calling the most advanced in the field. As Director of the CPG, O’Brien oversaw the creation of three generations of early warning methodology, several early warning crisis procedures, testified as an expert in Congressional sub-Committee and presented at the United Nations, U.S government agencies, on national TV and radio. He served as Senior Editor for more than twenty-five human rights reports primarily in Africa and Asia.
Successful early warning crisis procedures O’Brien presided over included several preventative actions in: 2001 for an ongoing massacre in Sulawesi, Indonesia, 2002 for a man-induced famine in Nuba, Sudan, 2002/2003 two ongoing massacres in Bunia and Bukavu, in eastern D.R. Congo, 2003 to stop the winter dismantling of Chechen refugee camps, 2004 to highlight the danger of a India-Pakistan accidental nuclear confrontation, 2004 for ongoing LRA massacres of Acholi in Northern Uganda and in 2004 to detail massacres in Darfur, Sudan and calling it genocide.
O’Brien taught International Human Rights, Conflict in the Modern World and World Ideologies at the University of South Florida. He chaired the Democratic Party in Manatee County, Florida, founded several caucuses, lobbied for statewide and local human rights and served on the Florida Democratic Executive Committee. In 2012 he ran a close campaign for mayor of Bradenton, Florida. He has owned several small companies and real estate interests. He is married to Ani O’Brien and they are the parents of twins, Annalise and John.
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James M. Scott: Jim Scott is a native Virginian, born in Galax and reared in Winchester. He received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and in 1982, a M.P.A. from George Mason University. Elected to Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to represent Providence District in 1971, Jim was reelected in 1975, '79, and '83. In 1986 he resigned from the Board to become Director of Community Affairs for the Fairfax Hospital System, later Inova Health System. In 1991, Jim was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates representing the 53rd District until his retirement in 2013. At various times he served on the Appropriations, Science & Technology, Corporations, Insurance and Banking, Priveleges and Elections, and Militia and Police Committees. in 1991, Jim was named Fairfax County Citizen of the Year by the Federation of Citizens' Associations. In 1997 George Mason University awarded him the Wayne F. Anderson Award for Distinguished Public Service. In 2012 he was elected to the AHOME (Affordable Housing Opportunity Means Everyone) Hall of Fame. In 2014 Jim was recognized for his work in affordable housing by the Virginia Housing Coalition's Legislative Leadership Award. In addition to his service as a member of the Advisory Board of the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Jim has served on the Board of Directors of AHOME, the Board of Fairfax Partnership for Youth, the Washington Area Housing Partnership, TYTRAN, Inc., and the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. Jim and his wife Nancy, a retired Fairfax County public school teacher, have two grown daughters.
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Brian Polkinghorn, MS, MA, MPhil, Ph.D. is a Distinguished Professor of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution. Since 2000 he has been the Program Director in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution and Executive Director of the Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR) at Salisbury University. Prior to 2000 he was the senior faculty member in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Nova Southeastern University. He has worked in the conflict intervention field since 1985 as a mediator, arbitrator, facilitator, trainer, researcher, academic program developer, conflict coach, dispute systems designer and ombudsman. His primary research and publications are in the areas of environmental disputes, graduate program developments in the English speaking world, post conflict development projects, ADR court program assessment and, the evaluation of major government ADR programs. He has published over 40 articles, book chapters and edited books and been the principle investigator or recipient of more than 50 grants. He has practiced in more than a dozen countries primarily in the areas of environmental policy dispute intervention, labor-management. cross border cooperative enterprises, support of peace talks and civil society training. He is currently facilitating dialogues between Palestinian, Jordanian and Israeli parties on water rights/usage, waste to energy and collaborative agricultural in the Jordan River basin. He has also worked on the peace process in Nepal. Brian is an alum of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution (ICAR), George Mason University (MS, Conflict Resolution, 1988) and the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC), Syracuse University (MA, MPhil, Ph.D. 1994). He was also a Fellow with the Program on Negotiation (PON), Harvard University Law School (1991-1992), a National Fellow with the US Environmental Protection Agency (1991-1993), a United States Presidential Fellow (1991), the University System of Maryland Wilson Elkins Professor, a Senior American Fulbright Scholar with the Evens Program in International Conflict and Mediation at Tel Aviv University (2010) and most recently appointed a Fulbright Alumni Ambassador (2015).
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Sean Heravi: Sean Heravi is an S-CAR alumni and military veteran. He served previously as the student representative to the Advisory Board before he graduated. His MS thesis titled: “Ayatollah Resilience: The Iranian Model for Regime Survival,” focuses on informal networks in Iran and their influence on authoritarian resilience. During his time at S-CAR, he honed an interest in power relations, statebuilding, and religious conflicts after completing several courses on these topics and a yearlong seminar titled: “The Political Economy of Civil Wars.” Last summer, he completed a month long intensive experiential learning course in Yogyakarta, Indonesia that incorporated ethnographic research and an analysis of political Islam at the local universities. He holds a BA in Political Science from Penn State University and has held several internships relative to international security and conflict resolution, including a fellowship at the Center for Complex Operations within the National Defense University. His background is in terrorism and international security with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa. Before his academic pursuit, he completed four years of honorable service in the United States Marine Corps as a member of 3rd Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team Company (F.A.S.T. CO.) and was stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
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Christine McCann:
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Lester P. Schoene:
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Edward Rice:
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Andy Shallal:
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Christopher C. Shoemaker:
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Tim Plim: (MS Representative)
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Richard L. Anderson
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