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Wallace Warfield: a Celebration of Contribution and Influence
Though only his closest friends and family know about the first two decades of his life, the ICAR extended community was recently treated to a review of Wallace Warfield’s professional career, which officially began as a street-gang worker in New York. Our mini-Festschrift was not the traditional tribute as there was no memorial volume filled with essays about Dr. Warfield’s huge contribution to the Institute, the field, and to his students and colleagues. Rather, we launched an extended celebration that reflects the way we want to honor his work. While this brief article highlights the retirement event, ICAR has also organized a site offering video testimonials as evidence of how special this guy really is. |
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ICAR Undergraduate Program: Building a Network of Influence at Mason and in the CommunityThe ICAR Undergraduate Program has had a busy year with activities and events that showcase its success as it approaching its sixth year. The main events during the spring semester were the undergraduate career panel and the First Annual Spring Conference.
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Conf 714 Puts Theory into Practice: As ICAR Graduate Students Host D.C. Youth at Fairfax CampusI remember the faces of my former ninth graders when they crossed the stage to receive their high school diplomas, with the promise of college, jobs, and future dreams ahead of them. Today I imagine being a teacher in a District of Columbia Ward Seven school where 67% of the freshman class will drop out sometime during ninth or tenth grade. This tragic reality moved this Spring's Conf 714 class to study conflict intervention in urban communities and to engage with community members east of the Anacostia River. We partnered with College and Career Connections (CCC). CCC is an NGO that helps sixth to ninth graders in D.C. to develop their career goals and college aspirations, offering skill-building programs to increase their chances for success.... |
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Interfaith Peacemaking: CRDC Hosts Activists Sharing Narratives of Peace As part of its ongoing efforts to sponsor citizen diplomacy and interfaith dialog, the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution (CRDC) at ICAR hosted an event on Monday, April 26, 2010 on the topic of “Interfaith Peacemaking: Creating a Narrative of Peace.” The two guest speakers for the event were, Kia Scherr and Reverend Charles Gibbs. Scherr and Gibbs each shared powerful stories of working to build cultures of peace, justice, and healing through interfaith cooperation. They talked about how their respective organizations engage these issues and shared some of their best practices for local, regional, and global organizing. |
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Book Preview: Reasons to Kill In Reasons to Kill, I study the arguments and images used by U.S. public officials and other pro- war advocates to persuade ordinary citizens to support America’s foreign wars. These methods of persuasion need to be powerful, since they ask people to pay the human costs as well as the financial costs of war. The basic question I ask is: What convinces ordinarily skeptical Americans to send their sons, daughters, sweethearts, neighbors, and coun trymen to kill other people and risk their own bodies and minds in battle? |
Ph.D. Candidate Gina CerasaniGina Cerasani's deep interest in community dynamcis led her to become involved in one of Norhtern Virginia's most pressing issues - immigration in Prince William county. As an ICAR Ph.D. candidate focusing on com- munity conflicts, her involvement began when she joined the Latin American and Caribbean working group in 2006, which was being led by Lisa Shaw. By 2007, the depth of the conflicts between PWC residents and the large influx of immigrants in the area looking for jobs was becoming apparent. The ICAR working group partnered with organizations, such as Unity in the Community, to start a series of facilitated dialogues involving various members of the community. Not only was the process one that had not been seen before in the county, open- ing the eyes of the parties involved as well as the facilitators, the dialogues gave Gina and her peers a chance to practice the... |
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Annual Spring Spotlight on Student Achivements Each Spring the ICAR community gathers for the Student Celebration of Achievement to review the projects and research produced by its student community. This year’s event reflected the integration of ICAR’s four programs as Undergraduate, Master’s, Certificate, and Ph.D. students submitted and presented projects, theses, and videos. The research and outcomes of APT teams and working groups were also represented. |