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Community Justice and Policing: The Role of Conflict Analysis and Resolution Skills Conflict analysis and resolution brings an important lens to the challenge of policing in the US and abroad. How do we begin to heal the fractured relationships between police and communities? Do we need more “law and order” or do we need to address root causes and prepare police with conflict resolution skills to engage communities in collaborative processes to improve security? |
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Citizen Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution: The Mandela Washington FellowshipEarly this year I became the Director of the Mandela Washington fellowship at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. This came about when I applied and won a State Department grant to host young professionals from sub-Saharan Africa. With my research interests in youth empowerment, civil society, human security, institutions of governance, and conflict management in sub-Saharan Africa, this undertaking was a natural fit as it involved working with innovative young people to tackle some of the most protracted issues in their communities. |
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OPEN International: Empowering Children and Strengthening Communities Through Education While visiting my hometown of Nioro, Senegal, in the Summer of 2008, I could not help but notice there were still many problems with the public school system that I had grown up in. It was not simply the fact that the schools did not have enough supplies or even enough space for students. What really hurt was that most of the standards of these facilities did not match the overwhelming enthusiasm and joy that students had for learning. |
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Brown Bag: Exploring the Military Coup Attempt in TurkeyIn July 2016, a faction within the Turkish military attempted a coup d’état against the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The group, which cited the elimination of democratic rule, disregard for human rights, and an erosion of secularism as some the reasons behind their coup attempt, was reported to have been led by Akın Öztürk, a former air forces commander and Turkish Supreme Military Council member. During the coup, over 300 people were killed, 2000 more injured, and government buildings and the presidential palace damaged. Reactions to the coup from both domestic and international actors was to... |
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Hanna Yamir, MS AlumnaWhen Hanna Yamir chose to design a peacebuilding intervention on the Ethiopian inter-ethnic conflict for a Spring 2015 class with Dennis Sandole, she never expected those same ethnic tensions to flare up again. “Using the private sector as a major actor in the peacebuilding process, my colleague and I produced an exhaustive two-part paper filled with politico-historical analysis underlining how complex and, most importantly, how combustible ethnic-federalism was in that part of the world.” Fast-forward to 2016... |
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Lindsey Lucente, MS StudentLike many students who choose to attend S-CAR, Lindsey Lucente wanted to study at an institution that would enable her acquire skills and experience to who work in the field of conflict resolution. “I first heard about S-CAR from the Program Directors at Project Harmony Israel and I was immediately drawn to the program,” she said. After graduating from the University of Virginia with a bachelor's degree in Anthropology, Religious Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies, Lindsey wanted to travel the world to experience different cultures before deciding on what career or educational path to pursue. "Traveling has always been important to me because... |
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Athletes Play More than Just Football this NFL SeasonThe recent movement sparked by San Francisco’s 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, is another example of an athlete who used his platform to highlight a social issue – oppression of "black people and people of color" in the U.S. Since Kaepernick’s sit-out and subsequent taking a knee during the U.S. national anthem, several other NFL players, teams, and other athletes have weighed in by also sitting out, kneeling, raising a fist in the air, or interlocking arms with teammates and coaches before the start of their games. These athletes seem to have won the attention of... |