Institute News
ICAR Welcomes New Faculty Sandra Cheldelin and Ho-Won Jeong
Sandra I. Cheldelin
A native Oregonian, Professor Cheldelin received her bachelor's degree in Sociology from Oregon State University and her master's and doctoral degrees in Educational Psychology from the University of Florida at Gainesville. She was active at the University of Florida in the development of the humanistic psychology movement.
At ICAR, as professor in the clinical Applied Practice and Theory (APT) Program, she will reach graduate courses on interpersonal and organizational conflict, reflecting her almost three decades of experience as a psychologist, organizational clinician, and consultant. She will also supervise the work of a team of ICAR students engaged in an APT practicum in the inner-city neighborhood of Mt. Pleasant in Washington, D.C. The team is studying issues and conflicts in this divided community while working to create peaceful strategies to assist the community's efforts at living and working together.
A licensed psychologist, certified to perform psychological and organizational assessment, Professor Cheldelin has an extensive background as a faculty member, administrator, and consultant. She began her teaching career at an inner-city college in Columbus, Ohio, and has served on the faculties of Columbus State College, Ohio State University, the California School of Professional Psychology, and Antioch University. Her administrative career includes serving as of Educational development and Research at Ohio University's newly founded medical school.
In the 1980s, as dean of Academic and Professional Affairs at California School of Professional Psychology at Berkeley, she created and taught organizational behavior programs at the master's and doctoral levels. After completing a national study of medical education for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching at Princeton, she moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio, where she served as interim provost at Antioch University. Dr. Cheldelin conducts an extensive clinical conciliation practice, has co-edited two books on teaching in higher education and a book on clinical teaching, and is the author of numerous articles in her areas of interest including mediation and conflict resolution.
Ho-Won Jeong
Prior to joining the ICAR faculty, Professor Ho-Won Jeong taught Peace and Conflict studies at Ohio State University, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Antioch College. He was also a nonresident associate faculty member for the graduate program in Conflict Resolution at Antioch University, where he supervised graduate students' projects in a variety of areas including community conflict prevention, labor-business disputes, design of mediation programs for social welfare agencies and training programs for schools, and woman's roles in the Northern Ireland peace process.
In the field of development and conflict, Ho Won Jeong has published articles on sustainable development, the impact of World Bank programs on basic human needs, the struggle between the government and trade unions in Ghana, reform for global economic governance, the application of basic needs theories to conflict analysis, and the role of indigenous culture and local institutions in development. He has written extensively in other areas of peace and conflict studies including future directions for conflict analysis and the assessment of theoretical development in peace research; edited Peace Research: Past and Future and Theories and Applications in Conflict Studies, published by the Network of Peace and Conflict Studies; and also prepared a manuscript on peace building strategies. His current interests focus on political economy approaches to conflict analysis, social and economic injustice as structural causes of conflict, power imbalance in various conflict situations, conflict in the global political economy, global environmental movements, and community development and reconstruction.
Professor Jeong is the editor of two journals, Peace and Conflict Studies and International Journal of Peace Studies. He is also a founding director of the Network of Peace and Conflict Studies, which is designed to promote cooperation in theory development and policy-oriented research among major graduate peace and conflict research programs around the world. The other goal of the Network is to build strong relationships between research institutions and global nongovernmental organizations in the areas of environment, development, and security. He is serving as convener of the Global Political Economy Commission of the International Peace Research Association and editor of its newsletter, Peace and Development, which publishes research notes, academic articles, and reports on new events. He has chaired panels and presented papers on peace building and conflict resolution, third-world development, economic sanctions, and trade disputes at a number of conferences sponsored by the International Peace Research Association, the Association for Humanist Sociologists, International Studies Association, the American Political Science Association, and the Association for Third World Development Policies. He recently received the Best Conference Paper Award from the New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association.
Moorad Mooradian
ICAR's most recent Ph.D., Dr. Moorad Mooradian, graduated in August after successfully defending his dissertation topic, "Third-Party Mediations and Missed Opportunities in Nagorno Karabakh: A Design for a Possible Solution." Mooradian is now acting director at the Center for Conflictology at Yerevan State University in Yerevan, Armenia, in the absence of Center director Ludmila Haroutunian, who is a visiting scholar-in-residence at ICAR until March 1997.
Professor Mooradian was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and is a graduate of Rhode Island College. While serving as an officer in the U.S. Army, he earned a master's degree in History and International Relations from the University of Rhode Island in 1962. He was professor of History and International Relations at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point from 1969 to 1973. While on the faculty at West Point, he also taught evening classes in History at Orange County Community College in New York. From 1978 to 1980 he served on the faculty as a professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Mooradian retired as a colonel from the U.S. Army after 30 years of service.
His dissertation is available at George Mason's Fenwick Library and in ICAR's Resource Room Library.
Professor Blechman Revises School's Conflict Strategy Guide
The 1997 edition of ICAR's popular publication by Professor Frank Blechman, Understanding Intergroup Conflict in Schools: Strategies and Resources is now available. Revised and updated, this guide is an excellent resource for schools with interpersonal peer mediation programs who are interested in expanding to handle larger issues.